memoir vocab

What is a Memoir?

• an account of a person's life written by that person.
• An account of a memorable event in a persons life
• an account of someone's life written by someone else.
• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.9

Memoirs are always written in which point of view?

• first person 
• second person 
• third person
• This is a trick question.  Memoirs can be written in any point of view.

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

One thing that is different when comparing memoir to autobiography is that memoirs

• are always about a bad experience.

• might be a story about someone else.

• are shorter than autobiographies.

• have a surprise ending.

a writing by an author about themselves

• autobiographical

• theme

• personification

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• theme

• conflict

What is conflict?

• Two characters getting along.
• A struggle between two opposing forces.
• The climax in a story.
• Part of the resolution.

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CCSS.RL.8.2

When an author's voice shows through a piece of writing, we see...

• The author's personality

• Facts

• Verbal pictures

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Hermione was like a walking dictionary.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D