Memoir Vs. Autobiography Quick Intro

What is a Memoir?

Characteristics of a Memoir

• Is a true past event

• Is written in the first person

• Reveals the feelings of the writer

• Shows what the author learned from this experience.

• Is about the author's experience more than the event itself.

• It focuses on one event.

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• A memoir is fake.

• A memoir is one real event told in the first person.

• A memoir should include the author's emotions.

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A memoir has a narrative structure, which means it is like reading

• a book report

• a news article

• a biography

• a story

Authors of memoirs often:

• “talk” to readers in First Person (1st Person) Point of View, using informal language and sharing personal feelings

• recall actual events and emphasize their reactions to them

• show how their experiences changed their attitudes and lives

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Memoirs can be fake information

• True, they can be fake.

• False, they must have true information

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The content of a memoir must include

• personal experience

• historical documents

• a fable or fairy tale

• a scientific report

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Memoirs are told in....

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

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Memoirs include...

• dialogue

• emotion

• theme or lesson learned

• all of the above

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an autobiography includes...

• a few experiences or memories

• no timeline of events

• informally written

• covers an entire lifetime

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Tells a whole life story

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

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Tells about an experience or memory

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

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Told in 1st person point of view

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

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Not written chronologically (the order in which the events happen)

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

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Formally written

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

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Is a true story

• memoir

• autobiography

• both