Writing a Memoir

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 is more emotional than an autobiography.

• True

• False

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

• a book report

• a news article

• a biography

• a story

The purpose of a memoir is...

• tell a story of an experience

• write about your entire life

• to write about different experiences or events

A memoir is considered __________ writing.

• fiction

• nonfiction

WHY DOES SOMEONE WRITE A MEMOIR

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

• To tell their whole life story

• To tell retell a story someone told them

Memoir most closely reminds you of, and draws the same meaning as the word

• metamorphosis

• memory

• metaphor

• memorize

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• theme

• conflict

Which sentence uses a lead/hook that "sets the scene?"

• We went to my grandparents' home.

• Each time we drive down the long, winding driveway to my grandparents' home, we are welcomed by the smell of sweet lilacs and the sounds of birds happily chirping in the dangling limbs of the willow tree.

• We visit my grandparents once a year.

• Today, I am going to tell you a story about visiting my grandparents.

What is the point of adding figurative language, like similes and metaphors, to your writing?

• To confuse my readers.

• To make my writing more fun to read.

• To be able to write lies in my true story.

• Because my teacher told me to use them.