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Memoir Characteristics
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What can be an authors purpose?
To Entertain
All of the above
To Persuade
To Inform
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What is flashback?
a scene set in a time earlier than the main story.
Answering a question.
What "sets up" the story.
The place or time that the story takes place.
3
What is an autobiography?
story written about a person by that person
story written about a person by someone else
story with made-up characters
4
The sensory details in a story are details that ________.
use just sights and smells
use the five senses
use big words
use dollars and cents
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A memoir is about
someone else's memory
something made up
a person's entire life
one specific memory
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A memoir is:
Literary Nonfiction
Literary Fiction
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What is a memoir?
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
An account of a memorable event in a person's life
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
an account of a person's life written by that person.
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Which point of view says "
you
?"
First Person
Third person
Second Person
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Elements of a memoir include:
All three
A true story
A theme or purpose
Real, informal dialogue
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True or False: Memoirs must be nonfiction.
True
False
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What is point of view?
Eyeshadow
The theme
The perspective that the story is written in
None
12
Memoirs can read and sound like a diary.
True
False
13
dialogue
Conversation between characters.
the way how a character speaks
the language of a person or character
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Which are examples of figurative language?
simile, metaphor, personification
paraphrasing, underlining, highlighting
integrity, persistence, ownership
verbs, nouns, and adjectives
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What point of view is this?
Third person
Fourth person
First person
Second person
16
What is a "biography?"
an account of a fictional character's life
an account of someones life written by themself
an account of someones life written by someone else
a story of someone in the future
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what is authors purpose?
what the story is about
pizza
The summary
Why the author wrote the story
18
What are first person words?
I, yours, and my
I, me, and my
yours, be, and I
19
Which of the following statements is
NOT
a characteristic of a memoir?
It develops characters through thoughts, dialogue, etc.
It maintains a third person point of view.
It focuses on the writer's relationships
It uses sensory details
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What is "tone?"
exaggeration for effect
a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
repetition of beginning sounds in words that are close together
the attitude or feeling of a text
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What is the major
difference
between a
memoir
and an
autobiography?
Autobiography is their entire life; Memoir is one memory.
They are both basically the same
Only famous people write memoirs.
Memoirs are written in 1st person and autobiographies in 3rd
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How many events does a memoir focus on?
four
three
two
one
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What point of view is this?
Second person
Third person omniscient
First person
Third person limited
24
A memoir should
not
only include the details necessary to the story.
True
False
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A
good
memoir has the following elements
EXCEPT:
dialogue
descriptive language
just enough information for the reader
Second person point of view
