Memoir Study - 'Family Life' by Diem Vo

This is a table containing 14 quotes from Diem Vo’s Memoir ‘Family Life’.

'Family Life’ could be studied in a unit of study about Memoirs and Autobiographies whereby students look at a range of sample memoirs before constructing their own piece of autobiographical writing.

The analysis table attached identifies literary techniques used within each quote and explains the author’s possible purpose and/or the effect of each on the reader. This was created to use with students in class who annotate their copy of the text, with the intention that they could then annotate a different memoir on their own, and then use similar ideas and techniques in their own writing.