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                                            The Language Features of a Biographical

                                                               Recount



                 Use of names of
                                                                               Use of action verbs (painted,
                 specific people.
                                                                               wrote, invented, discovered).




                      Mainly written in simple past tense
                      (the final paragraph could also
                      include the present tense).              Use of connectives to do with time
                                                               (last year, then, at the same time,
                                                               next, on Tuesday 24 May, later,
                                                               before, meanwhile).





                      autobiography              Autobiography is a self-written
                                                 account of the life of a person.



               2.    Mind Mapping



                                             BIOGRAPHICAL RECOUNT









                       SOCIAL                                                      STRUCTURES
                     FUNCTION








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