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Title: MEMOIR


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MEMOIR
  • a snapshot
  • of your life

2
What is a Memoir?
  • A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing,
    usually shorter in nature than a comprehensive
    autobiography.
  • Memoir tries to capture certain highlights or
    meaningful moments in one's past, often including
    a contemplation of the meaning of that event at
    the time of the writing of the memoir.
  • The memoir may be more emotional and concerned
    with capturing particular scenes, or a series of
    events, rather than documenting every fact of a
    person's life.

3
Characteristics of a Memoir
  • Focus on a brief period of time or series of
    related events
  • Narrative structure, including many of the usual
    elements of storytelling such as setting, plot,
    imagery, conflict, characterization,
    foreshadowing, flashback, irony, and symbolism
  • The writer's contemplation of the meaning of
    these events in retrospect
  • The use of dialogue

4
Characteristics continued
  • A fictional quality even though the story is true
  • Higher emotional level
  • More personal reconstruction of the events and
    their impact
  • Therapeutic experience for the memoirist,
    especially when the memoir is of the crisis or
    survival type

5
Memoirs are Visually Descriptive
  • Typically all five senses are used at some point
    to describe events.
  • See
  • Smell
  • Hear
  • Taste
  • Touch
  • This allows the reader to really visualize what
    the writer is talking about.

6
Examples of a Memoir
7
YOUR Memoir
  • WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT?
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