Which of the following best describes the cause-and-effect structure in a memoir? A. The structure maintains the order of real-life events. B. The structure focuses on providing a narrative of the events. C. The structure focuses on an incident and its consequences. D. The structure talks about characters and their influences. E. The structure emphasizes the sensual traits of tangible items.

Option C. The following statement best describes the cause-and-effect structure in a memoir: The structure focuses on an incident and its consequences.

Explanation:

A memoir, as it names indicates, is a collection of memories that a person writes about on recollections of events and moments that happened in that person's real life. This is why everything written in a memoir is going to be perceived by the public as, at first instance, true events. Memoirs tend to follow a chronological order of real-life events, but this is not always the case, as some of them make jumps in time and even show flashbacks. What a memoir always has is a cause-and-effect structure, in which the person writes about an incident (both positive and negative) that will act as the cause, and then will tell the reader the consequence of such incident, that acts as the effect. In the end, every memorable event in the memoir's author's life will be told in the form of an incident and its consequence, and most probably how it impacted that person's life.

E. The structure emphasizes the sensual traits of tangible items.