What's the difference between autobiographical and autobiography?

Autobiographical


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using autobiographical data some of the intra- and inter-personal strategies for coping with the disease are outlined.
  • (2) It is the difficulty in transmitting the truth of violence.” Last year, Louis, who has been compared to the Norwegian autobiographical novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard , published his second book, Histoire de la Violence (story of violence), based on an incident when he was throttled and raped by an Algerian man he picked up in the street on Christmas Eve.
  • (3) Adult age and openness to experience were examined as predictors of autobiographical memory in a group of men and women ranging from 25 to 85 years of age.
  • (4) This study investigated the ability of right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients to recall autobiographical material in response to emotional versus nonemotional cues.
  • (5) Two studies explored potential bases for reality monitoring (Johnson & Raye, 1981) of naturally occurring autobiographical events.
  • (6) Also, it's funny because ever since Prep [Sittenfeld's debut 2005 novel , about a teenage girl who goes to boarding school on a scholarship] came out, I think I have been mistaken for writing more autobiographically than I do.
  • (7) A biography by David Shields and Shane Salemo claims Salinger completed a string of works, including autobiographical material and stories, for which he planned a release over the coming decades.
  • (8) It’s rainy and people are saying the same things over and over again.” Unlike many other shows on the fringe, which prize storytelling above big laughs, there will be no theme to the show, no confessional narrative or autobiographical arc.
  • (9) Subjects furnished autobiographical accounts of being angered (victim narratives) and of angering someone else (perpetrator narratives).
  • (10) The article argues for an approach to autobiographical memory that takes into account sociocultural and developmental determinants of memorability as well as internal mechanisms of the cognitive system.
  • (11) Klein has now worked her serrated humor into a debut collection of autobiographical essays, titled You’ll Grow Out Of It , published in the US this week.
  • (12) It is impossible to read Heseltine's report and not be struck by the autobiographical quality of his writing.
  • (13) These results are explained within a 'descriptions' theory of autobiographical memory, and the remedial implications are discussed.
  • (14) If bookshops reserved a shelf for Autobiographical Car Crash, Getting Over the X would be a category gem, and many readers may struggle to believe that its ghost writer was not Craig Brown .
  • (15) So…" Of all Wesker's work, it is Chicken Soup with Barley that is the most autobiographical.
  • (16) He calls special attention to the interpersonal aspect and to the therapeutic function of anamnesis as well as autobiographical writing.
  • (17) "I suggest that six centuries before the first scientific report, Dante … depicted narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) in his literary works as an autobiographical trait," writes Giuseppe Plazzi of the University of Bologna's department of biomedical and neuro-motor sciences in an article for the Sleep Medicine journal .
  • (18) It is suggested that the grandmother, having played an important role in the growth, development, and artistic flowering of the autobiographer, can become a model and source of empowerment for future generations.
  • (19) The same judges also categorized memory sources as autobiographical episodes, abstract self-references, or semantic knowledge.
  • (20) High point Writing her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Postcards From the Edge, and adapting it for the film version starring Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale, a star fresh out of rehab.

Autobiography


Definition:

  • (n.) A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lumley has known Heatherwick for a long time – at least since 2004, when her autobiography described him as a designer of “incomparable originality” – and Johnson for much longer.
  • (2) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
  • (3) Look what happened to Julian Assange's autobiography ."
  • (4) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (5) While its title suggests otherwise, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a collaboration between the civil rights activist and journalist Alex Haley, who later wrote Roots.
  • (6) In his autobiography, Wesker comes across as an emotional, impulsive man with high nervous energy and an elevated libido.
  • (7) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
  • (8) The former Smiths frontman's autobiography, published by Penguin Classics, has been an international bestseller.
  • (9) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (10) It was not our fault that we lost the game, I thought it was his.” Sunderland fans’ cheery endorsement of Allardyce’s appointment made the release of his autobiography happily timed, especially as, for now, the 60-year-old can still boast of never being relegated from the Premier League .
  • (11) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (12) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
  • (13) Our readers say: arrivederci: Nobody has yet mentioned her wonderful two-volume autobiography Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade … she was a great writer.
  • (14) "), and sometimes moved by autobiographies and articles that turn the writer inside out?
  • (15) Her autobiographies had it both ways, as did she – "between the efficient young housewife of my first marriage and the rackety 'revolutionary' of 1943, 44, 45, there seems little connection.
  • (16) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
  • (17) This rigour was reflected in his autobiography, A Sense of Direction (1988).
  • (18) Weakness is having a problem and not recognising it and not solving it.” He also spoke to Holmes, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres, and who revealed her experience of depression in her autobiography.
  • (19) Robert Gates, promoting his autobiography about his time at the Pentagon, told the BBC that cuts in the number of military staff would limit the UK's global position.
  • (20) He says he loves hosting TV shows, he's currently writing a new comedy for BBC2, and of course there's the autobiography.

Words possibly related to "autobiographical"

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