1. Museum Indians
by Susan Power

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Autobiography
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First-Person point-of-view
Memoir
Focuses on a specific event or time period in the author’s life, and includes the author’s feelings about those events
Memories that are important to the author’s life, or unusual

3. Reading a memoir is a lot like reading someone’s diary—filled not just with what happened, but also describing how the person felt about what happened.

4. Literary Devices Figurative Language Allusion Imagery Repetition
Techniques an author uses to convey his or her message
Figurative Language
Allusion
Imagery
Repetition
Symbols

5. Types of Figurative Language

6. Simile
A comparison using the words “like” or “as”

7. Metaphor
A direct comparison that does NOT use the words “like” or “as”

10. Extended Metaphor Example
An extended metaphor is a comparison that is continued in a piece of literature for more than a single reference. It might be contained in a few sentences, a paragraph, stanza, or an entire literary piece.  An author uses an extended metaphor to build a larger comparison between two things.
Example
“Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.” (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)

11. Allusion
An allusion is a figure of speech that refers to past literature, history, or culture.

15. Repetition “I Have a Dream” speech
Repeating a word or phrase to emphasize it!
“I Have a Dream” speech
“I have a dream…”
“With this faith…”
“Let freedom ring..”
“Free at last…”

16. Symbol
Something that stands for, or represents, something beyond itself

17. Vocabulary chide—to scold or criticize
despondent—loss of hope/confidence
expiration—act of breathing out
nominal—small, insignificant
recap—retell, summarize
resonate—have an effect or impact on
requisite—needed or necessary
repatriate—return someone to their birth country