Biography, Autobiography, & Memoir – Flashcards

The author's intent to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince the audience to do or not do something.

The story of a person's life written by himself or herself.

The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the story.

The perspective from which a story is told or information is presented.

The "first-person" or "personal" point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character, who tells the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.

A perspective in literature, the "third-person" point of view presents the events of the story from outside of any single character's perception (omniscient), but the reader must understand the action as it takes place without any special insight into characters' minds or motivations.

The author's method of organizing a text, like cause/effect; problem/solution; chronological, time shifts, small moments, remembrances; main idea/details; compare/contrast

How the author creates the "story," by using tools and techniques of language and storytelling to craft a piece of writing, like word choice, repetition, literary devices, page layout, pacing - time elements - flashback, flash forward, etc, transitions, use of dialogue.

A description of an event from the past written in first person, based on a truth which reveals the feelings of the writer, shows what author learned from the experience - more about the experience than the event itself.