WorksheetsBiographical writing
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is biography?
true story of someone's life
study of biology
fictional writing
news acticles
Is biography fiction or non-fiction?
fiction
Non-fiction
Which of the following summaries is an example of a biographical writing?
A diary of a newspaper reporter and her inner feelings of a news story she had to cover.
An article about Rosa Parks written by someone who interviewed Rosa about her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.
"Brother" written by Maya Angelou about her relationship with her brother.
A personal essay that Jackie Robinson wrote about his struggles with racism and inequalities when he became the first black professional baseball player.
A biography is a piece of writing that....
is about the author's own life story.
is about someone different than the author.
Choose the correct answer that goes with the following description-
"Uses 3rd person point of view"
autobiography
biography
both autobiography AND biography
neither autobiography or biography
Choose the correct answer that goes with the following description-
"Uses 3rd person point of view"
autobiography
biography
both autobiography AND biography
neither autobiography or biography
A biography is a piece of writing that....
is about the author's own life story.
is about someone different than the author.
Choose the correct answer that goes with the following description-
"Uses 3rd person point of view"
autobiography
biography
both autobiography AND biography
neither autobiography or biography
Choose the correct answer that goes with the following description-
"An author writes about another person"
autobiography
biography
both autobiography AND biography
neither autobiography or biography
All of the following are elements of biographical writing except......
direct quotation
reasons
facts and actual events
other people's views of the subject (person)
When a nonfiction text tells a story this means that it is a .....
narrative
fiction
narrative nonfiction
tale
Which biographical element is in the following excerpt:
In 1963, over 250,000 people marched in Washington, D.C. where Dr. King gave his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” On the morning of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated He was just thirty-nine years old.
direct quotation
actual events
other people's opinion on him
Which of the following is an example of direct quotation?
DePrince was number 27, because she suffers from vitiligo,.....To the "Aunties" who ran the orphanage, it was evidence of the evil spirit within the three - year-old.
She was born in Sierra Leone in 1995. Her parents named her Mabinity, but after they both died during the civil war, she was sent to an orphanage, where she became a number.
An American woman, Elaine DePrince , had come to the camp to adopt child number 26, now called Mia.
"I have become more upbeat-I used to be very shy,"she says. "Now I've grown up and I'm so happy with the way things are turning out."
Which of the following is an example of an actual event?
She was born in Sierra Leone in 1995. Her parents named her Mabinity, but after they both died during the civil war, she was sent to an orphanage, where she became a number.
An American woman, Elaine DePrince , had come to the camp to adopt child number 26, now called Mia.
DePrince was number 27, because she suffers from vitiligo,.....To the "Aunties" who ran the orphanage, it was evidence of the evil spirit within the three - year-old.
"I have become more upbeat-I used to be very shy,"she says. "Now I've grown up and I'm so happy with the way things are turning out."
Which of the following is an example of a fact?
An American woman, Elaine DePrince , had come to the camp to adopt child number 26, now called Mia.
"I have become more upbeat-I used to be very shy,"she says. "Now I've grown up and I'm so happy with the way things are turning out."
DePrince was number 27, because she suffers from vitiligo,.....To the "Aunties" who ran the orphanage, it was evidence of the evil spirit within the three - year-old.
She was born in Sierra Leone in 1995. Her parents named her Mabinity, but after they both died during the civil war, she was sent to an orphanage, where she became a number.
