<p>Whats the diff. between personal experience vs. anecdote? These are sometimes listed as answer choices in the passage sections.</p>
<p>Well I’ve never gotten an 800, but a personal experience is just something that happened to a person.</p>
<p>An anecdote is a person’s actual account of the experience.<br>
real def: An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident</p>
<p>At least this is what I’ve been taught.</p>
<p>ex.
Personal Experience: Jimmy had a blast with Sue after Prom at the hotel.
Anecdote: “Guys, you will never believe what Sue and I did last night!”</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>so anecdotes more of a story</p>
<p>Very similar. I think matxjos pretty much has it.</p>