What is it?
an account of a person's life written by that person.
Autobiography
King Abdulaziz was a leader whose determination was like an unyielding desert wind.
Figurative Language ; simile
description of past events, often based on evidence like documents, artifacts...etc, told by a writer that didn't experience.
Historical account
Marie Antoinette was told that the peasants were starving, and said “let them eat cake.”
Dialogue
Diary and journal
Then the weirdest thing happened. Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons.
Imagery
type of writing that focuses on facts and try to describe things as they are.
Nonfiction
Hamilton said, “I’m a diamond in the rough, a shining piece of coal.”
Figurative Language, Dialogue
Writing that presents stories and characters that are a product of the author's imagination.
Fiction
The lower floors were warm from the kitchen fires and rich with the scent of baking and roasting, bright with the bustle of busy working. The higher floors danced with the light that flooded in through the casement windows.
Imagery