AICE English Form Structure And Language Practice Test

Biographical writing presents a real person’s life in a voice that follows the person’s story from a vantage point outside the subject. The best fit here is that it is written about a person in past tense and third person. This means the narrator describes events as having happened to someone else, not the writer or the reader, and often with a sense of historical perspective. The past tense helps convey that these events occurred in the person’s life, while the third-person point of view maintains objectivity and distance, which is typical for biographical narrative. While many biographies do move chronologically from birth onward, that sequence isn’t the defining feature of the form. Other options describe approaches more typical of different kinds of writing—thematic clusters without a set sequence suggest a profile or thematic essay; alphabetical listing of achievements isn’t how biographies are usually organized. The crucial aspect is the narrative voice: third person and past tense, focused on telling the life story of a real individual.