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