BIOGRAPHY PART 3

 

Nama         : Devi Lusyany

Kelas          : XII IPS 4

No Absen   : 8

 

BIOGRAPHY TEXT

 

DEFINITION

In simple terms, a biography is a story about a person's life. The term biography comes from the Greek words bios and graphien. For the meaning of the word bios which means life and graphien which means writing, a biography can consist of several lines or more than one book. Biography text is a detailed description or account of a person's life and written by someone else, it is non-fiction text. (A biographical text is a detailed description or story about a person's life and written by another person, a biographical text is a non-fiction text)

 

PURPOSE

The communicative purpose of Biography Text as explained above is to share other people's lives with readers or to provide a lot of information in an easy and educational way to readers.

 

GENERIC STRUCTURE

- Orientation

Orientation provides the reader with background information on why the biography was written. The opening paragraph should answer the questions: who, what, where, when, and how. Usually contains narrated biodata such as full name and place and date of birth. Some general information can also be presented in this section as an introduction to the characters.)

- Events

At the eventa stage is the stage of an event or events experienced by the character. Contains an explanation of a story in the form of problem solving, other processes, and various events that have been experienced by the character to lead him to a success. The events themselves are usually told in chronological order which refers to a certain time.

- Re-Orientation (Closing)

This section contains the author's views on the characters being told. Reorientation is optional so that the author can give his personal view of the characters being told. Reorientation also consists of a type of conclusion with comments about contributions which are then summarized in an interesting conclusion or storyline.

 

GRAMMAR USED

- Using Past Tense. For example : we went to Bukittinggi zoo, I was happy, etc

- Use Conjunctions and Time Connectives to sort events or occurrences. For example : and, but, the, list that, etc.

- Using Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase to express place, time and way. For example : yesterday, at my house, slowly, etc.

- Using Action Verbs. For example: went, slept, run, brought, etc.

CONCLUSION

The biography describes the life of a character from childhood until he grows up, even until he finally dies. All services, works, and things produced by a character are also clarified. The biographical text itself was composed not by myself. Life history text types include Short life history and Long life history.

 

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