Literary Nonfiction Review

What is a memoir?

• A story about a person's entire life.
• A made up story
• A story about small section of time, multiple events in a person's life.

• One event in a person's life.

What is a biography?

• A story about a real person's life written by that person.
• A story about a real person's life written by another person.
• A story about a made up person.
• A story about one event in a person's life.

A personal narrative is---

• a random story

• about a person's whole life

• about one significant event in a person's life

• a daily account of a person's life

What is an autobiography?

• A story about a real person's life written by another person.
• A made up story
• A story about a real person's life written by that person.
• A story about one event in a person's life.

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two things not using like or as.
• An exaggeration
• A comparison of two things using like or as.
• Sound words

Literary nonfiction is a genre that is written like a story, but has _____________ information.

• fake
• true
• new
• unfair

Which of the following is the narrator’s perspective when telling a story?

• Narrator

• Sight

• Point of View

• Dialogue

What genre of writing is at least partly made up by the author?

• Autobiography

• Biography

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Which genre of writing is true/real information?

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Poetry

• Myth

What point of view uses a narrator that is part of the story; uses pronouns like I, me, my, us, etc?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person