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Memoir/Personal Narrative Techniques The following are techniques you can use in your writing to spice it up. Please write the definition or examples. You may
use dictionaries from the front of the room or the internet. You will need to refer to this list as you are writing your
essay to ensure that you are using some of them.
1. Flashback
2. Hyperbole
3. Humor towards a serious moment
4. Situational irony
5. Dramatic irony
6. Verbal irony
7. Sensory details
8. Reflection of wisdom gained
9. Suspense
10. Rhetorical questions
11. Dialog
12. Conflict
13. Climax
14. Epiphany
15. Extended metaphor
16. Shock value
17. Fantasy
18. Poetic justice
19. Parody
20. Paradox
21. Red herring
22. Dialect 23. Slang
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