Autobiographies

Question 1

What are some of the key features of autobiographical writing?

Answer 1

○Honesty
○Revealing
○Anecdotes
○Dates
○Descriptive
○Insight
○Personal, subjective
○Reflective
○Nostalgic

Question 2

Why does an autobiography need to be descriptive?

Answer 2

The author needs to tell the reader all about their life and experiences

Question 3

What narrative is an autobiography written in?

Answer 3

The first person narrative

Question 4

Why does an autobiography need to be reflective?

Answer 4

The author is looking back on past experiences

Question 5

Why might an autobiography have a nostalgic tone?

Answer 5

Perhaps the author is sentimentalising the past