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BIOGRAPHY
TEXT
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THE MEANING
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Biography Text-biography consists

of two words "BIOS" meaning life
and "graphia" with written
meanings. A biography is a story
or an explanation of one's life. A
more complex biography, it also
tells about the feelings involved
in experiencing those events. In
it it completely explains the life
of a figure from childhood to old,
even to death. All the services,
works, and actions of a figure are
clarified too. The biographical
text was composed by someone else
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FUNCTION
-To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any
accomplishments this person may be known for.

-To give much information easily and educate the readers.

-to explain a detailed description or account of a person's

life

-To know a person’s story life

-To inform by retelling past events and achievements in a

person's life

-To share the life of another person with an audience

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recount text has four types, one of

them is biography {historycal recount}.
why is biography text included in the
recount text? biography itself is a text
that tells the life journey of a famous
figure and for recount text, recount
text has a function that will be used
for the purpose of forming a biography.
the function is retelling events in the
past!

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GENERIC
STRUCTURE OF
BIOGRAPHY TEXT
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Orientation (Introduction) : It is the

opening paragraph. It gives the readers
background information of the person.

Events : Event is as chronological

order.

Re-Orientation (Closing) : It consists

of a conclusion or comment of the writer.
It tells about the achievement or the
contribution of the person.
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LANGUAGE
FEATURES
Simple Past Tense
Simple past tense is the main course of creating biographical text. A simple form of events that
occurred in the past. It USES a second verb form.

Temporal Sequence and Temporal Conjunction.

As a link between one sentence and another in order of time.
[Sebagai penghubung antara satu kalimat dengan kalimat lain dalam urutan waktu.]
Temporal Sequence (urutan waktu)
Temporal Conjunction (konjungsi temporal).

Many use conjunctions, prepositions or noun

relating to time sequence. Such as: before, already, when, then, next, until, until, on that
date, later, during, at that time.

Focus on Specific participants

Use of Action verbs.

Verbs, such as running, thinking, or calming, express something that a person, an animal, a
thing, ora process in nature.

explains something the figure actively does by using a few verbs in v2 or past form.

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EXAMPLES OF BIOGRAPHY TEXT

orientation
Thomas Alva Edison as Inventor who was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Thomas
Edison was the youngest of seven children Samuel and Edison. His father was an exiled
political activist, while his mother was an accomplished school teacher and had a great
influence on Thomas’ early life. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, his inventions
include the telegraph, the phonograph, the first practical incandescent electric light bulb,
alkaline storage batteries and the Kinetograph (camera for film).

events
During his lifetime, Edison received many patents. His first patent was obtained from the
Electrographic Vote-Recorder on October 13, 1868, at the age of 21. His last patent was for
equipment used to hold objects during the electroplating process. While the artificer wasn’t
the inventor of the first light bulb, he did find the technology that helped bring it back in
time.

re-orientation
Edison was driven to perfect the commercially practical incandescent light bulb after the
British inventor invented the first early electric arc lamp in the early 1800s. Thomas Edison
later died of complications from his illness on October 18, 1931, at his home, “Glenmont,” in
West Orange, New Jersey.
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