Autobiography

An autobiography is an ___________ of a person’s life.

Biographies and autobiographies are both about the real life of a person.

• True

• False

An autobiography is written in the first person.

• True

• False

"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein, which is considered an early example of science fiction."

This sentence is from an autobiography.

• True

• False

An autobiography can tell you what the person at the heart of the story thought and felt.

• True

• False

An autobiography and a memoir are the same thing.

• True

• False

The word etymology means:

• The study of the sound of words

• The study of the origin and history of words

Autobiographies are entirely factual.

• True

• False

All people who write autobiographies are famous

• True

• False

Autobiographies should be written in a detached and unbiased way.

• True

• False