Writing a Memoir

The purpose of a Memoir is to explain something important  in your life or yourself.

• True
• False

^{A Memoir is an autobiography?}

• True 
• False

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

Memoir writers will use ______________ to help the reader visualise the scene.

• sensory details

• main ideas

• pictures

• mood

What is the point of view that a personal narrative uses?

• 3rd person view
• bird's eye view
  bird's eye view
• 1st person view
• narrator's view

What is a Memoir?

• an account of a person's life written by that person.

• an account of a series of events, a place, and/or a significant influence.

• an account of someone's life written by someone else.

• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

The content of a memoir must include

• personal experience
• historical documents
• a fable or fairy tale
• a scientific report

The writer of a memoir writes about something that 

• he/she doesn't give a second thought to.
•  required research of several sources.
•  impacted his/her life.
•  you would see in an argument essay.

A memoir must show some sort of:

• Reflection
• Conflict
• Irony
• 3rd person POV

 the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage is.....

• tone
• mood
• theme
• voice