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James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is generally thought to have established Boswell as the first great modern biographer; yet the claim of (i) _________ could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage.
Blank (i) |
partisanship |
omniscience |
precedence |
opportunism |
perseverance |
if -
X write something abt
Y and acclaimed something good [first biographer]
and
Y also write something about
Z then what will be the order of the writer ?
First
Y wrote about
Z, then
X wrote about Y
that is happened in our question.
James Boswell's wrote biography of Samuel Johnson and was acclaimed as the first great modern biographer.
in the 2nd line -
yet- makes the contrast
So we can tell – maybe his acclamation of first great modern biographer is not correct/true.
yet the claim of (i) _________ could be made for Johnson himself as author of a life of Richard Savage.question is saying – that claim could be made for Johnson himself for writing –
a life of Richard Savageso James isn’t the first great modern biographer, before him, Johnson could be the
first.
So clearly – we can assume – the blank is talking something about
first position/order/ precedence Answer
Precedence
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