Personal Narrative/Memoir Test

What is a memoir?

• an autobiography

• a story about a single moment from your life

• your entire life's story

• a story you write about someone else

What part of a piece of writing is a lead?

• The title

• The beginning

• The "So What"

• All of the above

What is the literature term for the life lesson or statement about life in a narrative?

• Metaphor

• Theme

• Tone

• Mood

How could you add thoughts and feelings to your draft?

• You don't

• By placing (*) where the thoughts and feelings should go and adding hem on a separate sheet of paper or on the lines you skipped when you wrote your first draft.

• By adding correct punctuation to your draft

• By replacing wimpy verbs with strong ones

A good writer often discovers the life lesson through the thinking of the writing process. But even with hard thinking, some topics may not have a life lesson. What should you do if you can't think of a life lesson for your writing piece?

• Abandon it

• Edit it

• Add a title

• All of the above

Why should you add thoughts and feelings to your draft?

• To make it long enough to meet the length requirement

• So the reader can feel what you felt during the experience

• They can help make your theme clear

• Both B and C (So the reader can feel what you felt, and a clear theme

Robert Frost Wrote, "No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader." This means that

• If the writer didn't cry, then the story isn't good.

• If the reader doesn't cry, then the story isn't good

• If the reader doesn't get the writer's inner thoughts and feelings, then he or she can't care about the story.

• Both A and B, writer and reader are crying

True or False: For a memoir to be effective, it has to be funny?

• True

• False

True or False: A memoir should have lots of "I" in it?

• True

• False

True or False: An effective memoir starts with a "Typical" lead.

• True

• False