Identifying the features of a biography
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I can identify the purpose and features of biographical writing.
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A biography is a non-fiction text written about someone's life.
Linguistic features of a biography include fronted adverbials, facts, relative complex sentences and parenthesis.
Structural features include a title, subheadings and relevant information grouped by theme.
The purpose of a biography is to inform the reader about a particular individual.
In biographies, extra, factual information can be added to clauses using brackets or commas.
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