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