Exploring vivid childhood accounts
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I can explore what makes a memoir particularly vivid and emulate this craft in my own writing.
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Memoirs are historical accounts or biographies written from personal experience or knowledge.
Helen Keller's memoir describes an idyllic childhood juxtaposed with description of the illness that changed her life.
Keller uses sensory language and juxtaposition to make her childhood account more vivid.
Sensory language can be made more vivid if we add adjectives and embedded clauses.
Contrasting sets of words and phrases highlight the differing feelings attached to memories.
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