Question

An Autobiography is usually written in _____.
a. First person
b. Second person
c. Third person
d. None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: An autobiography refers to an account or narration of a person’s life which has been written by that person himself. It is a self-written diary or journal of one’s life story.

Complete answer:
 As given in the hint, an autobiography can be written in the form of a letter, diary, journal, essay etc.
The word ‘Autobiography’ was first used in the 19th century but the first autobiography was written in the 1^st century BC by a Chinese philosopher.
We can conclude that an autobiography is the biography of a person narrated by that person himself. Since, it is the person’s own life record or account, it is always written in ‘first person’ format.
Example- Mahatma Gandhi wrote the book ‘An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth’. He talks about his own childhood and life story in the first-person format.
Now, let’s decipher the meaning of the given options to find the form of the narration of an autobiography:
Option a- ‘First person’ refers to the narration or writing that is based on the writer’s opinion or point of view. It is written or narrated in the form of ‘I or we’ depending upon the writer. Autobiographies are always written in the first-person narration. Hence, it is the correct option.
The correct answer is Option ‘a’.

Note: We use the first-person narrative whenever we want to narrate a story or an incident based on our life events. The audience or the readers understands the first-person narrative through the mind and opinion of the narrator.