Personal Experiences Key Vocabulary

A written account of a person's life, written by the individual themselves.

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Chronological

• Flashback

A written account of a person's life, usually written by someone else.

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Theme

• 3rd Person

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

A type of autobiography that focuses on specific periods or events in a person's life, rather than their entire life story.

• 2nd Person

• Biography
• Anecdote

• Memoir

When events are presented in the order they occurred, from the beginning to the end.

• Theme

• Alphabetical Narrative
• Chronological Narrative

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.3C

CCSS.RL.6.3

A narrative device used in storytelling where the sequence of events in a story is temporarily interrupted to depict an event or scene from the past.

• 3rd Person

• Chronological

• Theme

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3C

CCSS.RL.6.5

A short, interesting, and often humorous or personal story.

• 2nd Person

• Anecdote

• Flashack

• Biography

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.3B

CCSS.W.6.4

A central topic or idea that runs through a biography or autobiography.

• Theme

• Chronological

• 3rd Person

• Flashback

A perspective in which the narrator uses pronouns like "I," "me," "my," and "we" to talk about themselves.

• First-person narrative

• second-person narrative

• third-person narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

A perspective in which the narrator uses pronouns like "you," "your," and "yours" to talk directly to the reader.

• first-person narrative

• Second-person narrative

• third-person narrative

A perspective in which the narrator uses pronouns such as "he," "she," "it," "they," to talk about others.

• First-person narrative

• Second-person narrative

• Third-person narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6