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Some passages in the Close Reading paper are extracts from diaries or autobiographies. Although a piece of autobiographical / personal writing is more usual, these two types of writing share common features.
Personal writing
A diary is a day to day record of someone's life experiences. An autobiography is an account of a person's life written by that person. Key features are -
- they are personal pieces of writing recording thoughts and feelings about life experiences
- the reader gains an understanding of the writer's personality
- the reader gains an insight into the writer's life
- people and places are described in detail
- language is descriptive and imaginative
- they are written in the 1st person
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