biographies vs autobiographies
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Review of biographies and autobiographies. This compares and contrasts the two types of nonfiction.TRANSCRIPT
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Biographies Vs Autobiographies
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What is a biography?
• Biographies are written stories of a person's life that were written by someone else
• Biographies are written in second and sometimes third person point of view.
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Biographies• Biographies make past history more real
and easier to understand by telling about real people and actual events.
People reading the biography can satisfy their curiosity about well-known individuals and can experience historical events as though they were actually present.
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Biographies• A good biography presents the facts about the
person's life including what the subject did and how they influenced their world.
• It should describe the person's personality and provide an explanation for why he or she acted in certain ways.
• Most biographies are interpretive; they not only present the facts but also tell what those facts mean.
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Biographies• Biographers make their writings accurate by
learning as much as possible about their subjects.
• They study materials such as diaries, personal letters, and autobiographies.
• A good biography should be objective and balanced, but those lofty goals are not always achieved.
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What is an autobiography?
• An autobiography is a person's story written by oneself. It is a story told from a personal point of view about his or her own life experiences.
• Autobiographies are written in first person tense and tell a story about one’s own life without others influencing what is written.