Creative Non-Fiction

Give what is asked: Memoirs can also include stronger narrative elements to relive and provide reflection about a particular experience. This structure can provide storytelling qualities while reflecting on a true event.

Give what is aksed: As a more experimental approach, memoirs can also be structured as a list. The writer explores the significance of an event through a list of descriptive items that develop the writer’s reflection over multiple points in time.

Give what is asked: The memoir follows the order in which incidents happened. This structure is common in memoirs. 

Give what is asked: The memoir revolves around a significant event and how life was different before and after it. 

An autobiography deals with a large part of the author’s life, while a memoir focuses on a few specific incidents

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A memoir relies mostly on memory, while an autobiography may rely on one external sources such as documentary records

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Accuracy is more important in a memoir than in an autobiography.

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What do you call a writer who tries to find some meaning in the events and shape them so that readers understand why the memoir is important. He also tries to relate the past events to the present.

• First Person POV

• Memoirist

• Third Person POV

• Poet

These are nonfiction texts in which authors provide a first-person account of something they recollect from their lives

This narration enables writers to express their personal views about real-life people and events. 

• First person POV

• Second person POV

• Third person POV

• Fourth person POV