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Let’s Get Personal

Let’s Get Personal. Biographies and Autobiographies. The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.” ~ Mary Cable. Biographies.

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Let’s Get Personal

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  1. Let’s Get Personal Biographies and Autobiographies

  2. The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.” ~ Mary Cable

  3. Biographies Test your knowledge.Match the biography term with the definition.

  4. Biography A biography is the true account of a person’s life, written by another person.

  5. Biography

  6. Collective Biography An account of the life of 2 or more persons. They have a commonality that binds them together. For example, they may be related or married or they may have a common profession, cause or goal. Wynonna and Naomi Judd by Skip Press

  7. Photobiography A biography revealed mostly or entirely through photographs. Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein by Marfe Ferguson Delano

  8. Biography in Verse Uses poetry totell a person’s story.

  9. “If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.” ~ Clint Eastwood

  10. Autobiography An account of one’s own life. “This is the best biography by me I have ever read.” ~ Lawrence Welk

  11. Autobiography

  12. Memoirs • A memoir is a form of nonfiction in which a person tells about significant events in his or her life. • Unlike an autobiography, which generally covers a person’s entire life, a memoir may cover just one time period or experience. Bad Boy: A Memoir   by Walter Dean Myers. Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.

  13. Memoir

  14. False Memoirs • Literary Forgeries “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” Stephanie Klein

  15. Personal Narrative

  16. Personal Narrative A personal narrative is an autobiographical essay that reflects the writer’s experiences, feelings, and personality. It usually deals with a single subject and offers a snapshot of a moment in a writer’s life. “One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.” William Ellery Channing Personal narratives often appear in magazines and newspapers.

  17. Personal Narrative

  18. Diary or Journal • A form of autobiographical writing. • A regularly kept record of the diarist’s activities and reflections. • Written primarily for the writer’s use alone, the diary has a frankness that is unlike writing done for publication.

  19. Personal Stories

  20. Biographies Test your knowledge.Match the biography term with the definition.

  21. Works Cited Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal Literature: Texas Grade 6. [Evanston, Ill.]: Holt McDougal, a Division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Print. "Biography Quotes." BrainyQuote. BookRags Media Network, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. Images 20 of the All-time Best Twitter Bios. Digital image. Schaefer Marketing Solutions We Help Businesses Grow. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. Burton, Adam. Rocky Coastline. Digital image. Adam Burton Photography. N.p., 2013. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. Clint Eastwood in “Trouble with the Curve”. Digital image. News GameFob Network RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013.

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