CNF: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY

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Coleen Dela

Cards (13)

NATURE OF WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written from a third-person perspective
Mostly formal tone
Use of compound and complex sentences
Written in past tense
Follows a chronological order
NATURE OF WRITING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written from the first-person perspective
Mostly for personal consumption of an individual
May exhibit a sense of subjectivity
Has an informal tone and is conversational for the readers
Written in anecdotal style
Feelings, emotions, and realizations of the writer are included
ELEMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
Setting gives the time, place, and context by which the author's part of the story is told
ELEMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Characters are real-life people who help readers better understand the author's perspective
ELEMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Chronology is the sequence of events in an autobiography which is important
ELEMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Details is where the writers use either objective, subjective, anecdotal accounts to present details in the text
ELEMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Author's Purpose helps the readers understand and appreciate the text better
ELEMENTS OF BIOGRAPHY
Factual Evidence are the facts and information about the person whose life will be written about
ELEMENTS OF BIOGRAPHY
Chronology are the sequence of events from childhood to adulthood plays and important part in the whole text
ELEMENTS OF BIOGRAPHY
Details are dialogues or direct lines from the person which are some of the details in a biography. Biographers gather these details through interviewing, archiving, researching, and the like
ELEMENTS OF BIOGRAPHY
Author's Purpose are the biographers which are usually hired to write a piece that will showcase a person's life
TIP
CONSTRUCTING AN OUTLINE of details will help you sort things out
IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE
Writing about somebody else's life is crucial, as you do not want to make up stories. Make sure to fact-check and verifiy information before indicating them in the narrative