Memoir and Reflective Writing

What is Nonfiction?

• Writing about real life

• Writing about persuading others

• Writing about made up stories

• Writing that informs

Nonfiction expresses the writer's unique point of view. What is point of view?

• The sequence of events

• a writer's perspective about a subject

• a writer's purpose for writing

• the place and time that the story occurs

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A story about the writer's own life, told by the writer is called?

• essay

• speech

• autobiography

• memoir

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What is a memoir?

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• a narrative, written from the perspective of the author, about an important memory in their life.

• to give a spoken or written account of an event.

• a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.

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Why does someone write a memoir?

• To tell their whole life story
• To tell how they were feeling when they experienced a certain event
• To tell retell a story someone told them

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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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How is a memoir different than an autobiography?

• An autobiography tells more a single event in a persons life
• A memoir is focused on facts
• A memoir is written with a collaborative writer
• A memoir is more concerned with personal truth.

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Memoir is another name for autobiography.

• True
• False

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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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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 that autobiographies.
• have a surprise ending.

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