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Memoir Characteristics
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What is a "biography?"
an account of someones life written by themself
a story of someone in the future
an account of someones life written by someone else
an account of a fictional character's life
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What can be an authors purpose?
To Inform
All of the above
To Persuade
To Entertain
3
A memoir is:
Literary Fiction
Literary Nonfiction
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A memoir should
not
only include the details necessary to the story.
False
True
5
Memoirs can read and sound like a diary.
False
True
6
What point of view is this?
Second person
Third person omniscient
Third person limited
First person
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What is an autobiography?
story with made-up characters
story written about a person by someone else
story written about a person by that person
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How many events does a memoir focus on?
two
four
one
three
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A memoir is about
a person's entire life
someone else's memory
something made up
one specific memory
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The sensory details in a story are details that ________.
use the five senses
use just sights and smells
use big words
use dollars and cents
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What is a memoir?
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
an account of a person's life written by that person.
An account of a memorable event in a person's life
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What is "tone?"
exaggeration for effect
the attitude or feeling of a text
a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
repetition of beginning sounds in words that are close together
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What is the major
difference
between a
memoir
and an
autobiography?
Only famous people write memoirs.
Memoirs are written in 1st person and autobiographies in 3rd
Autobiography is their entire life; Memoir is one memory.
They are both basically the same
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A
good
memoir has the following elements
EXCEPT:
dialogue
Second person point of view
descriptive language
just enough information for the reader
15
Which are examples of figurative language?
paraphrasing, underlining, highlighting
simile, metaphor, personification
integrity, persistence, ownership
verbs, nouns, and adjectives
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What point of view is this?
First person
Third person
Second person
Fourth person
17
what is authors purpose?
The summary
Why the author wrote the story
what the story is about
pizza
18
True or False: Memoirs must be nonfiction.
False
True
19
What is point of view?
The perspective that the story is written in
Eyeshadow
None
The theme
20
What is flashback?
What "sets up" the story.
The place or time that the story takes place.
a scene set in a time earlier than the main story.
Answering a question.
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Which point of view says "
you
?"
Second Person
Third person
First Person
22
Which of the following statements is
NOT
a characteristic of a memoir?
It focuses on the writer's relationships
It maintains a third person point of view.
It uses sensory details
It develops characters through thoughts, dialogue, etc.
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Elements of a memoir include:
A theme or purpose
A true story
All three
Real, informal dialogue
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dialogue
the way how a character speaks
the language of a person or character
Conversation between characters.
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What are first person words?
I, yours, and my
yours, be, and I
I, me, and my
