Thursday Quiz

The memoir is a story about the author's life that must be the length of a book.

• True

• False

The personal essay focuses on the author's life experience and big picture experiences.

• True

• False

In a personal essay or personal narrative it is important to focus on

• multiple events in your personal life that made you who you are.

• a series of conflicts that shaped your understanding of the world

• A dramatic event or a tension/conflict with vivid details and narration

• your family life

A literacy narrative focuses on

• the difficulty of not being able to read or write

• personal experience and vivid details of the difficulty of gaining an education

• the person who taught the author how to read or write

• small and insignificant moments in the author's life.

The significance of a personal narrative

• Is symbolic

• Is directly stated within the narrative.

• is a kind of moral of the story

• is not important.

The topic of your personal narrative should be

• an event that was interesting, humorous or embarrassing

• something you found difficult or challenging

• the origins of an attitude or belief you hold

• a memory from your childhood that remains vivid.

• Any of the above

Dialogue should not be included in your brainstorm

• True

• False

At the heart of every good narrative is the answer to the question "why am I here?"

• True

• False

The best way to organize your personal narrative is to tell it just as it happened, beginning to end.

• True

• False

The significance of the event should be clear in your story.

• True

• False