Analyze a Diary

Select which best describes your attitude to diary entries:

• I often write diary entries or journal.

• I occasionally write diary entries or journal.

• I don't have the time.

• I'd rather do anything else.

• I prefer to express myself through different media.

Which category would diary entries best fall under?

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

Which style is usually adopted within a diary entry?

• Formal

• Informal

Provide an example of informal, but appropriate, language that might be found within a diary entry.

Diary entries are written from what point of view?

• First-person

• Second-person

• Third-person

Select which tense(s) can be used in a diary entry.

• Present and present continuous

• Past and past perfect

• Past and future conditional

• A range of tenses

Select the most appropriate purpose for writing a diary entry.

• to inform

• to argue a point

• to recount events

• to entertain

Select the most appropriate purpose for writing a diary entry.

• To instruct

• To express emotions

• To explain

• To persuade