Ohio 5th Grade English Language Arts (ELA) Practice Test

Life-writing depends on who writes the story and the perspective used. When a storyteller describes another person’s life and uses third-person narration, that is called a biography. This fits the description because the life story is written by someone else, not the person themselves, and told from an outside viewpoint. If the person wrote their own life story, it would be an autobiography, told in first person. The term Point of View refers to the narrative perspective, not a genre of life-writing, and Origin isn’t related to describing a life written by another. So the best fit for a life story written by someone else in third person is biography.