Autobiography vs. Biography What is the point of view of the writing? What are the characteristics of a biography and an autobiography?
Autobiography-First Person Point of View • In the first person 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 is 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 by 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 story’s events
Third Person Point of View-Example • “In December of 1851 when she started out wit
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autobiography-and-biography.year 7 lessonpptx
1. Biographies A biography gives facts about a person’s life. It is not written by the subject of the book but by an author who has done their research and knows a great deal about that person. Biographies are written in the third person and can be written about someone who is no longer alive. 2. A biography is a life story written in chronological order. It can include information about when and where the subject was born, their childhood, important events in their lives including information about what they did or achieved. If the person is no longer alive, it may include information about when and how they died. Other Important Features of a Biography 3. What Does the Prefix ‘Auto’ Mean? 4. Autobiographies An autobiography is different to a biography because it is written in the first person, explaining important events in their life. The subject may write about what has influenced them and include details of their feelings during different experiences they have had. Autobiographies are primary historical sources of in •
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 beyond. 11. In the spirit of Augustine's Confessions is the 12th- century Historia Calamitatum