4. What writing characteristic determines that a biography is an autobiography?

A. It is written in the active voice.

B. It is written in the third-person point of view.

C. It is written in the first-person point of view.

D. It is written in the passive voice.

C. It is written in the first-person point of view.

Explanation:

An autobiography is a non-fiction story of a person’s life, written by the subject themselves from their own point of view. Autobiographies are a subgenre of the broader category of biographies, but a standard biography is written by someone other than its subject—most commonly a historian—whereas an autobiography is written by the subject.

The facts of a person’s life might be interpreted differently depending on who writes the biography. The person who writes the biography is called a biographer.  When the biographer is the subject, the biography is actually an autobiography.  When the biographer is someone who knew the subject personally, the biography is known as a firsthand biography.

Autobiographies are almost always written in the first-person point of view. The subject of an autobiography is I or we.  Other biographies are written in the third-person point of view. The subject of a biography is he, she, or they.  In summary, autobiographies are firsthand biographies written in the first person. Otherwise, all the rules of biographical writing apply.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.