The article talks about a professional painting and provides three reasons to argue that Jane Austen is the subject of the painting. Whereas, the speaker believes that the reasons and evidences provided by the article do not support the conclusion. He provides three opposing arguments for the same.
First, the article posits that in 1882, Jane Austen's family gave the permission to use the portrait as an illutration in edition to her letters because the family recognized it as the portrait of the author. The speaker, however, believes that the portrait could not have been of Jane Austen. He argues that in 1882, Jane Austen had been dead for nearly seventy years, so the family who authorized the use of the portrait had never seen her in real life. They couldn't have known what Jane Austen looked like.
Second, according to the article, the face of the portrait resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, although amateurish, it conveys details about Austen's face. On the other hand, the speaker points our attention to the fact that Jane Austen had an extended family with many relative who were in their teenage years or their children who were teenagers. Thus, the speaker argues that the teenager in the portait could have easily been any one of Austen's relatives who shared facial details with Austen.
Third, the article puts forward the theory that the painting of a teenage Jane Austen was painted by Ozias Humphrey, who was the type of painter the wealthy Austen family would hire. The speaker contradicts the information by saying that the canvas used in the painting provides infromation that the it was sold by a man named William Legg, who did not sell canvases in London during Austen's teenage years. Austen was 27 when Legg first started selling canvases in London. Thus, the speaker concludes that Humprey was linked to the painting only because of similarities between his style and the painting's style. There is no concerete evidence supporting the same.
In sum, the speaker expresses his disapproval with the conclusion of the article and provides cogent arguments and examples to support the same.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 119, Rule ID: IN_EDITION_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'in addition to'?
Suggestion: in addition to
...n to use the portrait as an illutration in edition to her letters because the family recogniz...
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Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...t had never seen her in real life. They couldnt have known what Jane Austen looked like...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 297, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'it'?
Suggestion: the; it
... the painting provides infromation that the it was sold by a man named William Legg, w...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, second, so, third, thus, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1781.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 355.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01690140845 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42969789455 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498591549296 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 538.2 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0999092558 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.3125 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1875 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8125 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.513791265275 0.272083759551 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.180405864722 0.0996497079465 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119743799317 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252810874106 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.155084879969 0.0443174109184 350% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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