Characteristics of a Memoir

Memoirs focus on only one event in the author's life

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• False

Which statement is not a characteristic of a memoir?

• It maintains a third person point of view.

• uses sensory details.

• develop characters through thoughts, characters, words and uses dialogue effectively.

• it focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object.

Memoirs are usually written in

• problem/solution text structure.

• cause and effect text structure

• chronological order structure

• all of the above

What is a Memoir?

• An account of a memorable event in a person's life

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

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

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

Memoirs are written in third person Omniscient point of view.

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• False

A memoir must have the following

• characters

• reveal the authors feelings

• a theme

• all of the above

Tom Burgenthal, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a judge on the International Court of Justice tells the remarkable story of how he survived the death camp as a ten-year-old boy, and how this experience inspired him to work for the International Court to prevent other children from ever going through such horrors. This an example of a memoir.

• True

• False