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Autobiography and biography

1. Autobiogra phy an d biography By:YourNameHere

2. Autobiogra phy

3. - Is from the Greek word autos – self + bios – life + graphein – to write, is a written account of the life of a person written by that person.

4. An autobiography is an extensive true narrative of an individual’s life, from infancy to date, from his point of view, and in his/her own personal style.

5. Autobiography Trough the Ages

6. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD:  Apologia  Oration  Confession

7. Apologia  purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation

8. Oration  not of a public kind but a literary kind that could not be aloud in privacy.

9. A memoir on the other hand covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life while an autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life

10. Confession initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyo

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Memoirs and biographies

1. BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS By: Andrea Huertas Cianchini EDU 325

2. What is a Biography?  “A usually written history of a person's life” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.)  “An account or detailed description about the life of a person. It entails basic facts, such as childhood, education, career, relationships, family, and death. Biography is a literary genre that portrays the experiences of all these events occurring in the life of a person, mostly in a chronological order.” (Literary Devices, n.d.) (1)

3. Types / Categories of a Biography (2)

4. Significant Writers of Biographies The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Night Elie Wiesel 1956 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 (Brookman, 2017)

5. Classic Examples of Biographies (Good Reads, n.d.) Madame Curie: A Biography by Ève Curie 1936 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 Frida: A Biography o

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Autobiography vs. Biography

Autobiography vs. Biography What fryst vatten the point of view of the writing? What are the characteristics of a biography and an autobiography?

Autobiography-First individ Point of View • In the first individ point of view, the narrator does participate in the action of the story • When reading stories in the first person, we need to realize that what the narrator fryst vatten recounting might not be the objective truth • We should question the trustworthiness of the accounting

First Person Point of View-Example “For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school, and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first lifeline.” from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings bygd Maya Angelou

Biography-Third Person Point of View • A narrator zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character in the story • This point of view helps us share that character’s reactions to the st