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Autobiographical Text

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Autobiographical Text

An autobiography is a text written in the first person about a person’s life.

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Autobiography

  • Autobiographical texts often span decades.
    • Autobiographical texts describe the most important events in the person’s life.
  • Autobiography also includes a person's thoughts and feelings.
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Autobiographies & biographies

  • Autobiographies and biographies have some similarities as well as differences.
  • Autobiographies and biographies are about one person’s life and describe key events of this person’s life in the past tense.
    • A biography is written about someone else’s life.
    • An autobiography is about the writer’s life.
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Famous autobiographies

  • Many famous people have written and published autobiographies, including actors, politicians and musicians.
  • Sometimes autobiographies are also called ‘memoirs’.
    • Memoirs are often written to inspire and motivate the reader.
    • Memoirs also provide factual information about a person’s life.
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'Becoming’ by Michelle Obama

  • One famous autobiography is called ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama.
  • Michelle Obama was the previous First Lady when her husband Barack Obama was President.
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Michelle Obama's autobiography

  • Michelle Obama's autobiography gives details about her and her family’s time in the White House during his presidency.
  • Michelle Obama's autobiography also describes her life before this during her childhood.

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