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Lesson 8: Autobiography, Biography, Personal Narrative, and Travelogue Lesson 8: Autobiography, Biography, Personal Narrative, and Travelogue

A biography tells the story of a person's life, chronologically recounting important events. There are several types of biographies, including historical fiction biographies which fictionalize real people's lives, academic biographies which rely on facts, and fictionalized academic biographies which combine facts with storytelling. Autobiographies are biographies written by the subject about their own life, and can take the form of a full recounting, a memoir focusing on part of their life, or a spiritual autobiography about their beliefs. A travelogue recounts someone's travel experiences in the past tense, describing places they visited and their thoughts and observations.

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Lesson 8: Autobiography, Biography, Personal Narrative, and Travelogue Lesson 8: Autobiography, Biography, Personal Narrative, and Travelogue

A biography tells the story of a person's life, chronologically recounting important events. There are several types of biographies, including historical fiction biographies which fictionalize real people's lives, academic biographies which rely on facts, and fictionalized academic biographies which combine facts with storytelling. Autobiographies are biographies written by the subject about their own life, and can take the form of a full recounting, a memoir focusing on part of their life, or a spiritual autobiography about their beliefs. A travelogue recounts someone's travel experiences in the past tense, describing places they visited and their thoughts and observations.

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Lesson 8: Autobiography, Biography,

Personal Narrative, and Travelogue


BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
is a literary genre that portrays the experiences
of all these events occurring in the life of a
person, mostly in a chronological order. Unlike a
resume or profile, a biography provides a life
story of a subject, highlighting different aspects
of his of her life. The plot, characters and
settings of a biography happen in real-life
situation.
TYPES OF BIOGRAPHY
1. Historical Fiction Biography
2. Academic biography
3. Fictionalized academic biography
4. Prophetic biography-
Historical Fiction Biography
A fictionalized biography is a
creative account inspired by the
events of a person’s life. The
fictional style is most often used in
contemporary biographies such as
the accounts of celebrities,
athletes and politicians who are
still alive.
JUSTIN BIEBER NEVER
SAY NEVER BY JON CHU
Academic biography
- relies heavily upon the
documented facts and noted
accomplishments of a person’s life.
“Stalking the Academic
Communist: Intellectual Freedom
and the Firing of Alex Novikoff” by
David R. Holmes
Fictionalized Academic Biography
- tries to combine the best
elements of the fictional biography
(entertainment with a strong
theme and story line) and the
academic biography (factual
accuracy).
“I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow…
’Cause I Get Better Looking Every
Day” by Joe Willie Namath and
Richard Schaap (1970)
Prophetic Biography
- begins with the academic
approach of considering all the
known facts. Once the details have
been catalogued, a spiritual goal or
ideal theme — often “liberation of
the masses” — is developed.
Gandhi
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
-the biography of oneself
narrated by oneself.

Confessions- has much in


common with what came to be
known as autobiography in its
modern, Western sense, which
can be considered to have
emerged in Europe during the
Renaissance, in the 15th century.
TYPES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1. Full autobiography (traditional):
2. Memoir
3. Psychological illness
4. Confession
5. Spiritual
6. Overcoming adversity
Full Autobiography
This would be the complete life
story, starting from birth through
childhood, young adulthood, and
up to the present time at which
the book is being written. Authors
might choose this if their whole
lives were very different from
others and could be considered
interesting.
Memoir
- There are many types of
memoirs – place, time,
philosophic (their theory on life),
occupational, etc. A memoir is a
snapshot of a person’s life. It
focuses on one specific part that
stands out as a learning
experience or worth sharing.
Psychological Illness
- People who have suffered
mental illness of any kind find it
therapeutic to write down their
thoughts. Therapists are
specialists who listen to people’s
problems and help them feel
better, but many people find
writing down their story is also
helpful.
Confession
- Just as people share a psychological
illness, people who have done
something very wrong may find it
helps to write down and share their
story. Sharing the story may make
one feel he or she is making amends
(making things right), or perhaps
hopes that others will learn and
avoid the same mistake.
Spiritual
-is the story of your own life and
how God has been present in it.
Including your own spirituality
and beliefs.
Overcoming adversity
-being successful despite
difficulties or challenges. For
example, if your house burned
down, you lost your job and
became homeless, you could say
you "overcame adversity" if you
got a new job and got a new
home, because that is hard to do
from nothing.
TRAVELOGUE
Travelogue
- a truthful account of an individual’s
experiences traveling, usually told in
the past tense and in the first person.
- A travelogue can exist in the form of
a book, a blog, a diary or journal, an
article or essay, a podcast, a lecture, a
narrated slide show, or in virtually
every written or spoken form of
creation.
In The Innocents Abroad, Twain gives
us and “account of the steamship
Quaker City’s pleasure excursion to
Europe and the Holy Land; with
descriptions of countries, nations,
incidents and adventures, as they
appeared to the author.” It is a
descriptive account of his travels and
thoughts, sometimes funny and often
bigoted. He tells us what he saw and
what he felt while also offering
historical and cultural remarks on the
places he visited.

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