Writing Memoir Leads
Sensory details Seeing Hearing Feeling Smelling Tasting
Paints a picture/sets the scene
Descriptive Lead
Creates curiosity What will happen next?
Suspense Lead
Invites reader to think about the events that lie ahead
Question Lead
Introduces the reader to YOU!
Narrator Lead
Presents the central conflict to the reader for immediate consideration
Dramatic
Conflict Lead
Hints towards what the theme/life lesson is
Thematic Lead
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Figurative language Simile/metaphor Onomatopoeia Alliteration Personification ...
Sensory details Emotion
What else do you add to a lead?
A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris reflected my favorite image of me--a darkly handsome young airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered and immaculately groomed. Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.
I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the manger. For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose.
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Topic: A day at school
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