AP Running notes (61-64)

Question 1

Autobiography

Answer 1

Tells a life story of its author, meaning it is a written record of their life. It is written by the person in their own words.

Question 2

Memoir

Answer 2

A record of memories, and events that have taken place in the author’s life. It is telling of an event from his or her life, not their whole life.

Question 3

Cumulative sentence

Answer 3

A loose sentence that starts with an independent or main clause, which is simple, provides main idea and then adds subordinate elements. It adds them after the subject and predicate.

Question 4

Blank verse

Answer 4

Defined as an un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry or prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed but do not rhyme, although it can.