Which author does your prose style match most closely?

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http://www.ofaust.com/Default.aspx

this is awesome

39% like Edgar Allan Poe.

I match Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 34%

Lewis Carrol, 24%, apparently.

I just hope that isn't some web gimmick to steal our writing!

I don't think this is an accurate machine or answer. On one chapter I got 27% H.G. Wells; on another chapter, 31% Frank Baum (or whatever his name is.)

It depends on what tone, style, vocabulary, and voice you use. Since we have many voices, I don't believe a test can tell you who you write like with just a paragraph. Frankly, you can only write like you. I don't write like anyone, and I don't want to since I know I have to be myself to be successful in the writing business.

A gimmick machine.

My short story - 29% H.G. Wells
My history homework - 55% Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
My English homework - 25% Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think it changes depending on the subject matter, too, if you look at where certain words and phrases are highlighted. All three of the things I submitted are on totally different subjects, so therefore the words used are different.

(I'm going to be here all night finding archived pieces of homework and seeing which author they are most like, LOL)

17% likeness to Frank Baum *shrug*

Other stuff:

Poem about being depressed - 52% Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poem about China - 25% Oscar Wilde
Poem about America and Britain - 47% Jules Verne
Another poem about China - 36% Oscar Wilde
Science homework - 30% Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Random diary entry - 16% Frank Baum

From one short paragraph, I got Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan.

Hmm, this thread is apparently somewhat witty, since it rates 18% Oscar Wilde.

My blog is 18% Edgar Allen Poe (it's supposed to be comedy, so I guess that might mean "comedy fail")

City in the Sea by Edgar Allen Poe rates 78% Edgar Allen Poe.

A poem by Sylvia Plath is 4% Oscar Wilde.

Ten chapters of Finnegan's Wake gives "Sorry, my neo cortex is not working properly."

If you type in...

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that gives you...

Edgar Allen Poe - 100% alike!

Are you copying and pasting texts written by the great Edgar Allen Poe to find out just how good of a litterature expert I am?The text is brilliant! You saved my day.

I put in 'he looked at the grass. it was green' as the text (from one of the 'Worst Hemigway contests), and got 39% Oscar Wilde. Doesn't that turn my Dorian gray...

Actually, I think Robert Heinlein is who I tend to emulate...sans Gilbert and Sullivan, and the cats...

You're going to laugh; I know I did. I copied and pasted a review that I once wrote on an escort advertising site. Guess what it gave me? Leo Tolstoy. I actually enjoyed reading some of his works, and I read that Tolstoy led a simple life, so it follows that he was not a womanizer. So how is my escort review supposed to resemble War and Peace? It's a mystery.