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CNF Quarter 2 Module 2

This document discusses various forms of autobiographical and biographical narratives. It defines autobiography as a formal account of one's own life from birth to present, while a memoir focuses more on interior details and need not be chronological. Diaries are day-to-day records that are ideally kept private, while journals can be more expressive and contain impressions. Biographies narrate someone else's life and can be full-length, about famous people, literary writers, or historical figures. Profiles and character sketches provide shorter looks at aspects of subjects' lives. Interview stories are article-length and based on research and an interview.

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CNF Quarter 2 Module 2

This document discusses various forms of autobiographical and biographical narratives. It defines autobiography as a formal account of one's own life from birth to present, while a memoir focuses more on interior details and need not be chronological. Diaries are day-to-day records that are ideally kept private, while journals can be more expressive and contain impressions. Biographies narrate someone else's life and can be full-length, about famous people, literary writers, or historical figures. Profiles and character sketches provide shorter looks at aspects of subjects' lives. Interview stories are article-length and based on research and an interview.

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CALOOCAN HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH Department


10th Ave., Grace Park, Caloocan City
1st Semester, S.Y. 2023 – 2024
Subject: CREATIVE NONFICTION
Quarter 2: Module 2

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, DIARY, JOURNAL


Autobiographical Narratives
There is a wide variety of autobiographical narratives, ranging from the intimate writings made during life that
there were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and
reminiscence) to the formal biography.

 According to a dictionary of literary terms, it is an account of one’s own life, generally a continuous
narrative of major events.
 Also defined as the biography of oneself narrated by oneself.
 As a literary form, greater than a mere reminiscence of the important episodes in the life of its author,
for it must also be a coherent chronicle of a particular .

Memoir
One that is most often confused with the formal autobiography among the more informal forms of biographical
narrative, for both are concerned with the telling of the author’s life but an autobiography is more complete than
a memoir.

 Autobiography - moves in a dutiful line from birth to fame, omitting nothing


 Memoir- assumes the life and ignores most of it does not need to be arranged or structured in a strictly
chronological order like the former, and it can be written in a fragmentary or dispensed style, like a
mosaic or a montage of small-scale narratives
 The act of remembering is also very important in writing of a memoir, since the name of its literary genre is
derivative of the French word mémoire which means memory or reminiscence
 According to the seventh edition of A Handbook of Literature, the memoir is a form of autobiographical
writing dealing usually with the recollections of one who has been part of or has witnessed significant
events.
 Autobiography- typically concerns itself with the persons and actions aside from the writer himself or
herself
 Memoir- concerns itself with the more interior and intimate life of its authors.

Diary and Journal


Diaries and journals as autobiographical narratives have been very popular for thousands of years, and have
been deployed by different types of people for writing and recording personal experiences, thoughts, and
feelings. In actual practice, journals are more intimate that diaries; however, both diaries and journals are
generally kept private.
Diary
 A form of creative nonfiction that is quotidian or day-to-day record of specific events that have transpired in
the life of its author and it is ideally kept on a daily basis.
 In practice however, very few diarists include all the entries they have written for a certain period when
they publish their works in book form.

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 They usually exercise their right to choose and select which particular parts are to be included for the
sake of coherence or to achieve a certain effect or overall impression, removing those parts that they
deem or consider to be unnecessary or detrimental to the narrative they are trying to tell.

Journal
 A form of autobiographical writing which is generally more intimate than a diary and even if it includes
daily activities, it also contains personal details regarding the impressions and opinions of the journal
writer concerning certain intriguing incidents or issues that have come up and how specific persons
have affected him or her during the course of the day.
 It is typically very expressive and confidential, a receptacle of the author’s innermost thoughts and
feelings---and is generally meant for private consumption and not meant for publication.
 It has no prescribed format, does not necessarily need careful planning, thinking or editing, since it can be a
catch all of every thought and feeling that the author has decided to record without restrictions.

BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES: BIOGRAPHY, PROFILE, CHARACTER SKETCH, AND


INTERVIEW STORY
Biographical Narratives
As the etymology of the term implies bios(life)+ graphein (writing) - a biography basically is the
narrative of a person’s life written by someone else.

Biography
a. Full-length Biography typically covers the entirety of the featured person’s existence from birth to death.
Covering all significant events surrounding his or her life from womb to tomb.
b. Popular Biography refers to the life story of a famous and/or successful person. That person may be a
celebrity, a business tycoon, an athlete, a politician, a monarch, or a serial killer.
c. Literary Biography a narrative of the life of a literary writer written by another literary writer, as defined by
Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo
d. Historical Biography a narrative of the existence – of a historical figure written by another writer, usually a
historian, who is interested not only in the personal circumstances and historic events that
have shaped his or her subject, but also on how his or her subject has shaped history in
return.

Profile
• It recreates the subject, makes it more alive on paper, gives the subject shape and meaning which causes us
readers to meet and know that subject, that institution, that person.
• It is shorter than a full-length biography.
• A profile normally concentrates on a single aspect of a featured person9s life.

Character Sketch
• It is shorter than a profile.
• It can be described as a cameo or a miniature life story.

Interview Story
• It follows the length of a typical newspaper or magazine article.
• It requires some research and at least a couple of interviews.
• It can be the product of just one meeting between the writer who is the interviewer and the subject who is the
interviewee.
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