Including general biographies, autobiographies, critical biographies, biographies of people, close-ups of people, memoirs, chronicles, fictionalized biographies and so on.

(1) autobiographical biography. This is an article written by the character himself, recording his life experience. Generally, the description of life experiences in the first half of life or most of life is called autobiography, such as Aisingiorro's Autobiography of Mark Twain and My First Half of Life. Some of them are based on a certain segment or a certain aspect of their own life, which is usually called self-report, such as Peng Self-report.

2 memoirs and biographies. The authors of these biographies are usually relatives, friends, colleagues or subordinates of the publisher. They mainly record the life and behavior of the preacher through their own memories.

(3) Interview biography. The authors of these biographies are usually unrelated to the original works, or descendants who have been separated from the circulator for several generations. They mainly collect their associates by interviewing relatives and friends of rumors. Classroom information, and then through the author's choice, create and form a biography. Such as "Who's Who" by Roman Roland and "Deng Zhongxia's Life" by Wei Wei.

(4) Biography combining autobiographical biography and interview biography. For example, ingrid bergman, a world-famous Swedish movie star, and Allen Gibbs, an American writer, co-wrote The Biography of ingrid bergman.

(5) Besides the traditional prose biographies, there are some biographies with special styles. For example, the metaphorical April-Biography of Xu Zhimo, written by a poet and scholar born in 1980s, is the first biography of poetry in the history of China literature.

2. Biography itself belongs to one of the article genres, and there is no article genre. The genre of the article includes narrative, expository, argumentative and practical? . Style is divided into article genre and literary genre. Among them, literary genres include poetry, novel, drama and prose.

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The basic characteristics of biography:

(1) According to different narrators, biographies can be divided into "autobiography" and "biography by others": the former is written by the author himself, and the latter is written by others.

(2) From the way of expression, the general biography is mainly narrative, and there are also biographies that describe and comment on characters experience. This kind of biography is called "review".

(3) From the perspective of creative methods, some biographies are mainly based on detailed historical facts, and the language is relatively plain, which is called "historical biography"; Some biographies describe the life experience, mental outlook and historical background of activities of characters in a visual way, which is based on historical facts, but does not exclude some associative literary descriptions, and is called "biographical literature"

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