Imagine Cervantes writing a parody today. Select some form of written communication that you image he would relish lampooning, and then write a parody of your own. You many choose from such forms of writing as the memoir, the business memo, the advice-column letter, the political-campaign speech, or a Facebook page entry. Before you begin writing your parody, decide what the target of your satire will be. Then, use one or more of Cervantes's tools--exaggeration, verbal irony, incongruity, humorous imitation--to write a parody of you
Write lyrics for your own carpe diem song in any style. You might try to imitate the melancholic, romatic tone of the poems you've read, or you might adopt the more modern style of today's songs, which are sometimes romantic, sometimes plaintive, sometimes humorous.
Take one of the basic situations in "Lord Randall" or "Get Up and Bar the Door," and retell it as a contemporary news story. Like a reporter, be sure to tell what happened, where and when it happened, to whom it happened, why it happened, and how it happened. Present your news story with a headline. A minimum of 250 words.
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