Elements of Style Pastiche - Florida Virtual High School AP ENGLISH 1001420

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04.03B Elements of Style Pastiche  After analyzing how your selected author creates his or her style, you will write three to five sentences of your own that mimic the author’s style. This is c... alled a pastiche.  Select three to five sentences from the published author’s text and paste them into a document.  Choose your own subject, but follow the author’s style.  In a separate paragraph, explain how this author’s style differs from your style. What stylistic elements are unique to the passage you chose? Which elements did you use that you do not typically employ in your writing? What is their effect on the passage you wrote?  My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me; I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining-room and drawing-room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sunday-school and listening there; and whenever she heard a large word she said it over to herself many ti [Show More]

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