How to Write a Memoir- Academic Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events
  2. 5. the problems and struggles characters face in a literary work
  3. 7. a central message, idea, or pattern in an artistic work (Often this is an insight about life.
  4. 11. the perspective from which a story is told
  5. 12. where and when the story takes place
  6. 13. a scene or event from the past that appears in a story out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present
  7. 14. an author's personality and uniqueness revealed in his/her writing
  8. 15. Conflict a struggle against some force outside of yourself such as another person, society as a whole, technology, nature, or some uncontrollable force like destiny or fate
  9. 17. description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Down
  1. 1. the information surrounding a word, phrase, or other amount of text that determines exactly how it was mean
  2. 2. similar to autobiography but usually focuses on specific memories, emotions, lessons learned rather than a chronological history of one's life
  3. 3. a conversation between two persons; the lines spoken by characters in drama, fiction, or nonfiction
  4. 6. a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character; referred to as "Person vs. Self”
  5. 8. the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
  6. 9. clues that suggest what might happen in the future
  7. 10. writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places
  8. 16. the writer's attitude/emotions related to his/her subject