autobiographies

 

Expression and construction of the self…

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A)    Use the following words to complete this text about autobiographies:

recollection                      omission                       truth                         distortion                                                 

sort of   life                          reshaped                                  novelist                          title 

                                                  

Formal autobiographies offer a special kind of biographical ______________________: a life, _____________________________by ________________________, with all of recollection’s conscious and unconscious _________________and _________________. The ________________________ Graham Greene said that, for this reason, an autobiography is only a “_________________________” and used the phrase as the ______________________for his own autobiography (1971).

B) Quiz :

  • 1. A biography is a retelling of ________ life.

A) someone else's
B) an animal's life cycle
C) your own

  • 2. An autobiography is a retelling of ______________life.

A) your own
B) an animal's life cycle
C) someone else's

  • 3. True or False. A Biography must be about a person who is no longer alive.

A) false
B) true

  • 4. True or False. There were autobiographies in ancient times.

A) true
B) false

  • 5. True or False. A biography is USUALLY non fiction.

A)    False ?        B) True ?

 

 

 

 

C) You can browse the web to answer the following questions:

1) What is the etymology of the word autobiography ?

2) When was the word “autobiography” first used?

3) Who wrote the first famous autobiography in England?

4) What is the title of De Quincey’s autobiography?

5) Which point of view is generally used in an autobiography?

6) Are there autobiographies in the third person?

 

7) A French professor wrote about the “autobiographical pact”? According to you, what does it mean?

 

8) What sorts of people usually write their  biographies? Why?

 

9) Find examples of fictional autobiographies written in English

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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