Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir
The story of a person's life, told by someone other than that person.
What is a biography?
The reason an author is writing about the topic.
What is author's purpose?
Transition words include more important and less important.
What is order of importance?
The use of similar grammatical structures to express related ideas.
What is parallelism?
What is a title?
The Diary of Anne Frank is considered this.
What is an autobiography?
This is usually found at the end of an introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
Begins with a general statement and ends with a narrower conclusion.
What is deductive order?
"Bittersweet" is an example of this.
What is an oxymoron?
Provides a list of subject-specific terms and definitions typically found at the end of a text.
What is a glossary?
Elie Wiesel's Night is considered this.
What is a memoir?
An author's word choice.
What is diction?
Information arranged according to the progression of time.
What is chronological order?
Inflated or overstated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places (page numbers) where they occur; typically found at the end of a book.
What is an index?
Usually written in chronological order.
What is an autobiography
The four main purposes for writing.
What is to inform, to persuade, to entertain, and to express?
This type of text structure would be best to use to describe the layout of a house.
What is spatial order?
What is a paradox?
A list of chapters or sections of information and page numbers for their specific location in a larger text.
What is a table of contents?
Told in first-person.
What are autobiographies and memoirs?
Pieces of information that illustrate, expand on, or prove the author's ideas.
What are supporting details?
Transition words for cause and effect order.
What are because, therefore, as a result, and another effect?
"All hands on deck" is an example of this.
What is synecdoche?
A personal judgment about something or a mental leaning in one direction or the other.