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Understanding Memoir

Understanding Memoir. AP English Language and Composition. Characteristics of Memoir. Focuses on a person, place, event, or animal which had a particular significance in the writer’s life Has a particular focus, an element (big idea) which receives the most emphasis

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Understanding Memoir

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  1. Understanding Memoir AP English Language and Composition

  2. Characteristics of Memoir • Focuses on a person, place, event, or animal which had a particular significance in the writer’s life • Has a particular focus, an element (big idea) which receives the most emphasis • Recreates for the reader incidents shared during that event, with the person, in that place, or with the animal

  3. Characteristics (continued) • Reveals the writer’s knowledge of and feeling about the person, place, event, or animal • Includes the author’s feelings and thoughts • Has reflection scattered throughout • Makes the person, place, event, or animal come alive for the reader

  4. Analyzing Memoir • Who is the story about? • What is the relationship between the subject and the writer? • What is the writer’s purpose? In other words, what does the writer want you to know about this relationship?

  5. Analyzing (continued) • What is the one impression that the writer wants you to have about his/her subject? • How does the writer show you how important his/her subject is in the piece? • Through his/her thoughts? • Through his/her feelings about the subject? • Through the details and description?

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