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What is autobiography?

• a writing about someone else's life by other person

• a writing about someone's life by the person himself/herself

• a writing to persuade people to do something

• a writing to explain something in details

Which three of these are the main features/characteristics of autobiography?

• using first person point of view

• using third person point of view

• mostly subjective

• mostly objective

• using past tenses

Which two of these are not features of autobiography?

• the author is the subject

• the author is another person

• written in chronological order

• written from the most recent events

The prefix 'auto-' in autobiography means...

• automatic

• self

• life

• writing

Biography and autobiography are similar in certain features.

Find three similarities between them.

• both of them are telling about someone's life

• both of them are told in chronological order

• both of them are using mostly first person point of view

• both of them are using past tenses

• both of them are fictional

Which two of these are example of sentences used in autobiography?

• When I was five, my mom brought me to a zoo.

• I didn't see the rainbow until my friend told me.

• She was so happy because that gift looked awesome.

• They are waiting in the lobby for you.

• I will have a good chance to take a selfie with him.

Here are some book titles. Which two of them are autobiography?

• Surrender: My Lifelong Journey

• Perseverance:

  Jim Hawthorne's Confession

• I Won, I Lost! Max Payne's Untold Stories

• Sir Alex Ferguson, The Football's Greatest Manager

Since autobiography is written in chronological order.

Reorder the following parts of autobiography from the first to the last.

• Reorientation

• Series of events

• Orientation/

  Introduction

Match the following examples with the proper part of autobiography.

• events

• my birth and place of origin

• reorientation

• my dramatic experience in lower primary grades

• orientation/

  introduction

• my hope or dreams for upcoming years

What is the definition of connectives?

• word or phrase that are used to link sentences

• phrase that is used to make an opinion

• word or phrase that are used to introduce a character

• word that is used to make an emphasis