Forms and Types of CNF
A self-written account of a person's life, detailing significant events, experiences, and reflections.
Autobiography
Testimonies: In _ _ _ _ _ settings, testimonies are statements given by witnesses under oath, often used as evidence in trials, depositions, or legal investigations.
Legal Settings
Blog: Narrates experiences with food, restaurants, or personal recipes.
Food Blog
Personal Narrative: Written from the author’s perspective, using pronouns like "I," "me," and "my."
First Person POV
Testimonies are 100% factual.
FALSE
A nonfiction style that combines factual reporting with narrative techniques to present real events in a compelling, story-like format.
Literary Journalism/Reportage
Blog: Focuses on the blogger’s daily life, experiences, and reflections.
Personal Blog
Testimonies: Personal accounts of faith, spiritual transformation, or divine intervention, often shared in religious gatherings, sermons, or writings.
Religious or motivational
Blogs: Encourages comments and discussions from the readers.
Reader Interaction
A documentary is considered a literary reportage if it reflects the journalistic and literary style found in written reportage.
TRUE
A written or visual account of a traveler’s experiences, observations, and adventures in different places.
Travelogue
Biography: Written with permission and cooperation from the subject or their family.
Authorized Biography
Biography: Focuses on writers, poets, and artists, exploring their personal lives and creative works.
Literary Biography
Literary Journalism: This means spending time with sources, observing their behaviors, and even experiencing their realities firsthand.
Immersion in the subject
A personal narrative is a true story about a meaningful experience from the writer’s life, told in third-person POV.
FALSE
A film or video that shows real events, people, or issues, using interviews and facts to tell a true story.
Documentary
Travelogue: Emphasizing the travel experience itself.
Journey Articles
Travelogue: These compilations present a curated list that is centered around a common theme drawing them together, such as "Top 10 Beaches in the Philippines."
Round-up Articles
Documentary: They have a beginning, conflict, climax, and resolution.
Narrative structure
A travelogue is a narrative or documentary account of someone’s travel experiences written by you.
FALSE
First-person accounts of personal experiences, emotions, or reflections, often written in a storytelling format.
Personal Narratives
Autobiography: Focuses on specific events, periods, or themes in an author's life rather than their entire life.
Memoir
Autobiography: Highly intimate and personal, revealing deep emotional struggles, secrets, and experiences.
Confessional Autobiography
Testimonies: Even though testimonies are based on real events, they use literary elements such as imagery, flashback, tone, and mood.
Use of Narrative Techniques
Instead of just covering dramatic events like wars or elections, literary journalists explore the human experience in everyday life.
TRUE