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Autobiography

Autobiography . Tell me something about yourself!. Non Fiction. Nonfiction: prose that deals with real events and people Characters , settings, and events must conform to what is true Story cannot be manipulated by the writer’s imagination. Characteristics of an Autobiography.

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Autobiography

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  1. Autobiography Tell me something about yourself!

  2. Non Fiction • Nonfiction: prose that deals with real events and people • Characters, settings, and events must conform to what is true • Story cannot be manipulated by the writer’s imagination

  3. Characteristics of an Autobiography • Autobiography (story of a person’s life as written by that person) Characteristics of an autobiography • Usually a chronological, narrative account of a person’s life. • Author relates their life story to crucial historical events • Author offers personal evaluations of their actions and speculates on the significance of certain actions and events that connect to others • Auto = self graphia= writing

  4. Types of Autobiographies • Journal: form of autobiographical writing including a day-by-day chronicle of events, usually a personal and intimate record of events and thoughts kept by an individual • Diary: specialized journal that is a day-by-day chronicle of events, usually a personal and intimate record of events and thought kept by an individual

  5. Biography • Biography – an account of someone’s life, written by another person • Focus of a biography • The character • His/her career • His/her place in history • Uniqueness and universality of the character’s experience

  6. Characteristics of a Good Biography: • Accurate presentation of the life history from birth to death of an individual • Honest effort is made to interpret the life so as to offer a unified impression of the character, mind and personality of the subject • Bios = life graphia = writing

  7. Resources: • http://www.tv411.org/writing/ How to write your own Autobiography • http://www.biography.com/ Explore over 25,000 short biographies of people from around the world.   • http://www.infoplease.com/people.html Explore biographies by category (such as sports, Presidents and Vice Presidents, Supreme Court justices, entertainers, business and world leaders) or do a search for a person.

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