مدونة التربية و التعليم في الجزائر – دروس، فروض، نتائج امتحانات مدونة التربية والتعليم في الجزائر | تحضير الدروس، فروض واختبارات، نتائج البكالوريا وBEM، مسابقات التوظيف، والتوجيه المدرسي للطلاب وأولياء الأمور.
Biography and Autobiography
1. Definitions
Biography: life story written by someone else (third person). Autobiography: life story written by the person (first person). Memoir: focuses on specific events.
2. Biography Features
Third person, researched (interviews, documents), covers whole life, objective but interpretive. Focuses on famous people.
3. Autobiography Features
First person, personal perspective, subjective, selective memory.
4. Famous Examples
Biography: Steve Jobs by Isaacson. Autobiography: Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela), Becoming (Obama), The Story of My Life (Helen Keller).
Exercises
- Main difference between biography and autobiography?
- Name one famous biography.
- If you wrote about your life, would it be a biography or autobiography?
See Short Story and Poetry.