or emotions toward that situation.
Г? Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, were a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.
(B. Franklin p.14)
As it was seen from the previous examples one of the linguistic features of autobiographical genre is the use of past perfect tense, which pointed out the action that took place in the past.
Г? My unexpected appearance surprised the family; all were, however, very glad to see me, and made me welcome, except my brother. (B. Franklin p.15)
This sentence has the extra-linguistic feature of showing the emotions, with the help of which the author shows his feeling, emotions.
Г? The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been, what sort of a country it was, and how I liked it. (B. Franklin p.15)
The linguistic features were illustrated with the help of the past perfect tense. This example also shows an action, which took place in the past. p align="justify"> Г? And now it was that, being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school, I took Cocker s book of Arithmetic, and went through the whole by myself great ease. (B. Franklin p.7)
In this example the author used the extra-linguistic features for the purpose of showing the author s emotions, and it is proved by the help of the word ashamed .
Г? This habits, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged on promoting. (B. Franklin p.8)
The extra-linguistic features of autobiography were given here as the use of the author s hopes and the example of which is the given sentence.
Г? I was excited to try my hand among them; but still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. (B. Franklin p.9)
The extra-linguistic features were showed here with the use of showing the author s emotion. With the help of the word excited the author shows his emotion in a certain sentence or situation. ...
