Memoir vs Autobiography

What is a memoir?

• a short story about fictional characters

• a short story about someone's experience written by that person

• a story about the history of someone's life written by another person

Memoirs are told in....

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

Memoirs include...

• dialogue

• emotion

• theme or lesson learned

• all of the above

an autobiography includes...

• a few experiences or memories

• no timeline of events

• informally written

• covers an entire lifetime

Tells a whole life story

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

Tells about an experience or memory

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

Told in 1st person point of view

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

Not written chronologically

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

Formally written

• memoir

• autobiography

• both

Is a true story

• memoir

• autobiography

• both