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Joan Didion writing style and bio
Joan Didion writing style and bio
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#A quiz about Joan Didion's writing style and bio.
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1
How is her humor/ sarcasm often viewed?
witty
blunt
light and dry
caustic and harsh
2
What type of diction does she use?
depressing
positive
loving
negative
3
She refers to her own life experiences in her essays.
false
true
4
Where was Joan Didion born?
New York
California
Nevada
Florida
5
Type of tone she uses in most of her essays
conversational
persuasive
informative
formal
6
What year was she born
1930
1937
1942
1934
7
What family member did Didion lose
mother and husband
son and father
husband and daughter
father and brother
8
Many of her essays are based off of
her own experiences and research
history from the past
fictional stories
9
Didion uses 1st person in her essays
false
true
10
What types of allusions can you find in most of Didion's essays?
litteral
biblical
historical
11
What type of figurative langue did Didion use the most throughout all of her essays?
Similes
irony
Allusions
Imagery
12
Most of her essays were
scientific fiction
historical fiction
non-fiction
fiction
13
Were most of Didion's essays writing as a narrative?
True
False
14
Didion did not move around a lot.
false
true
15
What type of sentence structure does Didion often use?
short choppy sentences
long drawn out sentences
long, drawn-put sentences with short ones