Autobiography

CREATIVE NONFICTION
 01 DEFINITION

02 FORM

03 THEME
CONTENTS
04 TECHNIQUES
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
self life printed or
written
What is autobiography in
creative nonfiction?

An autobiography is a nonfiction story of a

person's life, written from their point of
view.
02 FORM Autobiographical works can take
many forms, from the intimate
writings made during life that were not
necessarily intended for publication
(including letters, diaries, journals,
memoirs, and reminiscences) to a
formal book-length autobiography.
 An author can write an autobiography
03 THEME in any way he or she wants. The core
theme is something the writer knows
best: the personal life as it has been
lived. A typical theme could be a
family-based description citing time,
place and antecedent history—
everyone has this basic element.
 The different techniques of
autobiographical writing
04 include narrative arc,
TECHNIQUES 02 and imagery. One
dialogue,
technique of autobiographical
writing is narrative. With this
method,03a person tells the story
of their life as they would any
other story—from start to
middle to end.
 A ▸ Character is the writer of autobiography
who describes his life accounts.

B Chronological order
► It is the order in which real-life events occur
► Often events are arranged from childhood to adulthood.

Point of View
► The perspective from which a story is told or information is
presented.
C ► Since autobiographies are written by their subjects, they are told from
the first-person point of view and use the pronouns I, me, and mine.
 Details
▸ Details are interesting.
D ► Writers of autobiographies use objective and
subjective details to tell their life stories.

Setting
E ► Place of the events
► Description of the person lived, worked and
played.
EXAMPLES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Contents
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GROUP SIX MEMBERS
(12 HUMSS 2)
Galicia, Geraisha C.
Etrata, Jasper
Manzano, Jewelrie
Manzano, Edrian
Sabado, Nichelle