Exercises in Style & Anti-Memoirs

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After reading a short selection from Andre Malroux's Anti-Memoirs we will read and discuss (and write an exercise) based on Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style.

Exercises in Style:
1. Write a short succinct story about "modern" life. This should be nothing more than a short anecdote. In fact, you can title the first entry anecdote. Or Writing Exercise.
2. Rewrite the same short story at least five more times (total of 6, but you can do more if you'd like) using any of the following writing "Styles":
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliterative
Anagrams
Formal
Slang
Onomatopoeia
Past Tense
Present Tense
Future Tense
Passive
Sonnet
Alexandrine
Exclamations
Epic
Heroic
Cockney
Cross Examination
Five Act Play Summary
Tragedy
Comedy
Introspective
Subjective
Objective
Apostrophe
Awkward Syntax
Biased
Olfactory
Ode
Elegy
Haiku
Villanelle
Sestina
Journalistic
Accented (pick an accent)
Mathematical
Neoclassical (Age of Reason)
Dickensian
Film Script
Play Script
Ransom Note
Any other you can think of...
For those of you in AP Lit, you may wish to try one of the many rhetorical strategies we've been discussing and play around with it. This will serve two purposes: 1. completing this assignment, and 2. learning new literary devices.

HOMEWORK: Complete this exercise as a draft for Monday, March 28. Response to film clips and French New Wave (short response) also due Monday. Watch clips, read article, learn.

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