Revision Quiz

Choose the correct definition of a memoir

• a narrative composed from personal experience

• a usually written history of a person's life created by another person

• a long printed story about imaginary characters and events

• a piece of writing on a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine, or on the internet:

Tick the features of a memoir​

• It maintains a first person point of view.

• It focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object. ​It also explains the importance of the relationship.

• It maintains a third person point of view.
• It must follow the 5-element plot structure.
• It describes fictional/imaginary actions/people.

Why does someone write a memoir?

• To tell their whole life story

• To tell how they were feeling when they experienced a certain event

• To tell retell a story someone told them

How is a memoir different from an autobiography?

• An autobiography tells more a single event in a person's life

• A memoir is focused on facts

• A memoir is written with a collaborative writer

• A memoir is more concerned with personal truth.

Elements of a Memoir include

• honesty

• dialogue

• theme

• all of these

Setting, plot, and imagery are never a part of memoir.

• TRUE

• FALSE

All of the following are true about a memoir, except:

• it's autobiographical

• it's chronological

• it's told in first person

• it's emotional

A memoir has narrative structure. This means it is like reading 

• a book report

• a news article

• a biography

• a story

The content of a memoir must include

• 
  personal experience

• historical documents

• a fable or fairy tale

• a scientific report

Give 5 tips on writing a good memoir.