Ernest Hemingway

Learn about Ernest Hemingway's life & writing style! A fun ELA worksheet for high school.

When and where was E. Hemingway born? What current celebrity is he compared to? What did he work on as a young student? Choose the right description of his writing style: straightforward, complicated sentences with a simple message, a style called Glacier Theory brief, illogical, simple ideas, a style called Ice-cream Theory very simple short sentences, a minimalistic style called Iceberg Theory Complete the following paragraph: During WWI E. Hemingway served as an ambulance driver and then he moved to Paris where he wrote his first novel ´The Sun Also Rises´ in 1926. Who did Ernest Hemingway impress? Name at least three authors. What have you learned about his personal life? What did he fight in his later life? Match the following data and the events: He won the Pulitzer Prize for his work ´The Old Man and the Sea´ in May, 1952. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October, 1954. He died (committed a suicide, shot himself) on 2 July, 1961. He left for Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War in 1937