What's a Memoir? by Shmoop

What do you call the point-of-view when the writer of a story is also the main character?

• First-person narration

• Second-person narration

• Third-person narration

Dialogue makes a memoir better.  True or false? 

• true

• false

What Genre do memoirs belong to?

• Realistic Fiction

• Literary Non-fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fantasy

Memoirs are Subjective which means that...

• They include every main character's point-of-view about the event. 

• They include the protagonist's and antagonist's point-of-view about the event. 

• They include only the writer's (main character's) point-of-view about the event

True or False: Even though Memoirs are in the Nonfiction genre, they read like a piece of Literature.

• TRUE

• FALSE