Ch. 5 Biography & Autobiography
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Biography | a story of a person's life written by another person; written from the 3rd person point of view |
| Autobiography | a writer's account of his or her won life; written from the 1st person point of view |
| 1st person point of view | the story is told using pronouns like I, we, me, us, our, my, mine; a character in the story is speaking to the reader |
| 3rd person point of view | the story is told using pronouns like his, her, their, he, she, they, them; biographers do not write in the "I" point of view because they are not the subject of the story |
| Narrator | the character telling the story; the storyteller |
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