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What is an autobiography?
story with made-up characters
story written about a person by that person
story written about a person by someone else
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A
good
memoir has the following elements
EXCEPT:
just enough information for the reader
descriptive language
dialogue
Second person point of view
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What is the major
difference
between a
memoir
and an
autobiography?
Memoirs are written in 1st person and autobiographies in 3rd
They are both basically the same
Only famous people write memoirs.
Autobiography is their entire life; Memoir is one memory.
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What is "tone?"
repetition of beginning sounds in words that are close together
exaggeration for effect
a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
the attitude or feeling of a text
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Memoirs can read and sound like a diary.
False
True
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What is point of view?
The theme
Eyeshadow
None
The perspective that the story is written in
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A memoir is about
one specific memory
someone else's memory
a person's entire life
something made up
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What is a "biography?"
a story of someone in the future
an account of someones life written by someone else
an account of a fictional character's life
an account of someones life written by themself
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What are first person words?
I, yours, and my
yours, be, and I
I, me, and my
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What point of view is this?
First person
Third person omniscient
Second person
Third person limited
11
What is flashback?
The place or time that the story takes place.
a scene set in a time earlier than the main story.
What "sets up" the story.
Answering a question.
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What point of view is this?
First person
Third person
Second person
Fourth person
13
A memoir should
not
only include the details necessary to the story.
True
False
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what is authors purpose?
Why the author wrote the story
pizza
The summary
what the story is about
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What can be an authors purpose?
To Inform
To Entertain
All of the above
To Persuade
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Elements of a memoir include:
Real, informal dialogue
A true story
A theme or purpose
All three
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Which point of view says "
you
?"
Second Person
Third person
First Person
18
True or False: Memoirs must be nonfiction.
False
True
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How many events does a memoir focus on?
three
four
two
one
20
Which of the following statements is
NOT
a characteristic of a memoir?
It maintains a third person point of view.
It develops characters through thoughts, dialogue, etc.
It uses sensory details
It focuses on the writer's relationships
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dialogue
the language of a person or character
the way how a character speaks
Conversation between characters.
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Which are examples of figurative language?
simile, metaphor, personification
paraphrasing, underlining, highlighting
integrity, persistence, ownership
verbs, nouns, and adjectives
23
A memoir is:
Literary Fiction
Literary Nonfiction
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What is a memoir?
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
An account of a memorable event in a person's life
an account of a person's life written by that person.
an account of someone's life written by someone else.
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The sensory details in a story are details that ________.
use dollars and cents
use big words
use the five senses
use just sights and smells
