Search Header Logo
What is a Memoir?

What is a Memoir?

Assessment

Presentation

English

11th Grade

Medium

Created by

Rebecca I. Delgado Morales

Used 4+ times

FREE Resource

11 Slides • 24 Questions

1

media

2

media

3

media

4

media

5

Multiple Choice

Why does someone write a memoir?
1
To tell their whole life story
2
To tell how they were feeling when they experienced a certain event
3
To tell retell a story someone told them

6

What is a Memoir?

A memoir is an account of a real person’s life. The narrator is a character in a story who reflects on the events of his/her life and, usually, draws certain conclusions.

A memoir is typically focused on certain incidents in a person’s life, and those incidents make up the individual stories that contribute to the overall work.

English

Memoir

7

What is a Memoir? (Continued)

Unlike an autobiography, which recounts particular historical dates and facts about a person’s life, a memoir is a depiction of how that individual remembers his/her own life.

The dates and facts in a memoir may not be entirely accurate (though they often are), and they are less important than the memories and the reflections.

English

Memoir

8

What is a Memoir? (Continued)

Overall, a narrative could fit into a memoir, but a memoir could not fit into a narrative. Additionally, memoirs will often jump around, include flashbacks/memories, and contain multiple stories and events.

English

Memoir

9

Multiple Choice

How is a memoir different than an autobiography?
1
An autobiography tells more a single event in a persons life
2
A memoir is focused on facts
3
A memoir is written with a collaborative writer
4
A memoir is more concerned with personal truth.

10

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true about a memoir, except:
1
it's autobiographical
2
it's chronological
3
it's told in first person
4
it's emotional

11

Multiple Choice

How is a memoir different than an autobiography?
1
It is not chronological
2
It doesn't cover the writer's whole life.
3
It's more story like.
4
All answers are correct

12

Multiple Choice

A memoir is more emotional than an autobiography.
1
True
2
False

13

Multiple Choice

A memoir has narrative structure, This means it is like reading 
1
a book report
2
a news article
3
a biography
4
a story

14

Multiple Choice

A memoir is written about a person by another person.
1
True
2
False

15

Multiple Choice

A look back to an earlier event...

1

Flashback

2

Foreshadowing

3

theme

4

conflict

16

Multiple Choice

The content of a memoir must include
1
personal experience
2
historical documents
3
a fable or fairy tale
4
a scientific report

17

Multiple Choice

The purpose of a memoir is...

1

tell a story of an experience

2

write about your entire life

3

to write about different experiences or events

18

Multiple Choice

A memoir is considered __________ writing.

1

fiction

2

nonfiction

19

Multiple Choice

What point of view is used in a memoir?

1

first person

2

second person

3

third person omniscient

4

third person limited

20

Multiple Choice

Which pronouns indicate first person point of view?

1

He, She

2

I, Me,

3

They, Them

21

Personal Narrative

A personal narrative is typically written in first-person about something in the narrator’s life. It centers on a certain (single) event and relays the narrator’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

A personal narrative may contain information about what the narrator read, encountered, or heard, and his reactions to these encounters.

Personal Narrative

22

Personal Narrative (Continued)

A narrative will develop setting, characterization, speech, and plot, but it is typically limited to the discussion of one particular event or incident.

Ultimately, a narrative will zoom into a singular moment and expand it, and some reflections and even themes may be present, but the purpose is to detail an isolated incident.

Personal Narrative

23

Multiple Choice

Includes one event

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

24

Multiple Choice

Is "zoomed in"

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

25

Multiple Choice

Has a first person narrator

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

26

Multiple Choice

Is a broad overview

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

27

Multiple Choice

Includes reflections and conclusions about the experiences

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

28

Multiple Choice

Is based off of the author's direct experience in life

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

29

Multiple Choice

Is true and real

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

30

Multiple Choice

Includes one OR MORE experiences

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

31

Multiple Choice

Focuses on the story, not reflections about the story

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

32

Multiple Choice

Is based on one theme/lesson that it wants to teach the reader. Uses true events to teach that theme/lesson

1

person narrative

2

memoir

3

both

33

Multiple Choice

May have a theme, but the focus is on the story, not any theme

1

personal narrative

2

memoir

3

both

34

media

35

media
media

Show answer

Auto Play

Slide 1 / 35

SLIDE