Biographical Text

What best describe a biographical text?

• non-fiction narrative

• realistic fiction

• non-fiction descriptive

• historical fiction

Which is common between autobiography and biography?

• the use of past tense

• uses first person point of view

• provides limite knowlege about a person's life

• expresses opinions and feelings

What is the text structure of a biographical text?

• cause and effect

• chronological

• spatial (according to location)

• most important to least important details

What is the purpose of any biographical text?

• To entertain readers narrating amusing incidents in a person's life.

• To inform the audience about the person's life.

• To persuade readers to like/dislike the person being written about.

• To motivate readers to be like the person beaing featured.

It is the attitide of the writer about a subject or idea.

• mood

• tone

• language style

• language structure

It is the choice of words that a writer uses in order to create shades of meaning.

• diction

• tone

• language style

• denotation

It is a feeling or idea that the word evokes apart from its literal meaning.

• denotation

• connotation

• diction

• literal meaning

Which is not a literary device?

• repetition

• alliteration

• punctuation

• alliteration

When analysing the text structure, which should not be included?

• sentence type (imperative, statement, question, exclamation)

• sentence structure (simple, compound, complex)

• punctuation

• diction (choice of words)

Which language is not included in biographical text?

• emotive

• descriptve

• figurative

• none of the above