Edmund Morris, noted for his three-volume chronicle of the life of Theodore Roosevelt, completed Edison, his biography of Thomas Edison, in 2019. The book covers important parts of its subject’s life, including Edison’s patent for a vote recorder, his creation of a carbon-filament electric light bulb, and his development of a rechargeable battery. However, it relates Edison’s life in reverse chronological order, an unusual approach about which reviewer Derek Thompson said, “Nothing is gained by [it], and much comprehension is lost.”
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mediumWhich choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
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It identifies a biography, notes some events recounted in the biography, then presents a critical response to one particular quality of the biography.
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It refers to two biographies, contrasts certain aspects of those biographies, then explains why critics generally preferred one biography to the other.
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It presents the subject of a biography, describes some major developments in that subject’s life, then suggests that the biography’s account of that life made some careless omissions.
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It describes a surprising feature of a biography, offers a defense of that feature, then compares the biography with another work by the same author.