The lecture talks about how Jane Austen’s authorized portrait story seems to be not convincing at all if compared with the arguments presented by the reading passage that believes she is the portrayed subject.
The reading says that decades after Jane Austen’s death, her family authorized the use of a portrait in an edition of her letters confirming that the girl who was being represented was Jane. However, the listening restates the fact that 70 years has passed when her family authorized it, so the main part of her relatives who actually met her were not there to assure it.
After that, the reading mentions how the portrayed face resembles the features contained in the sketch made by her sister Cassandra. On the other hand, the listening notices that the portrait could be of any of Jane’s relatives, once on that time she had a very extensive family mainly composed by teenagers, what could explain the resemble features passed down by relative to relative.
As last, besides the fact that the painting was unsigned and undated, the reading compares its style to Ozias Humphrey, a painter who Jane Austen’s family could possibly hire, and this period of Humphrey’s painting activity, namely, late 1780s and early 1790s, apparently matches with Jane’s youth. Nevertheless, the listening observes that the stamp indicated behind the portrait’s canvas has a name of a seller called Williams, who didn’t sell canvas in London during Humphrey’s painting activity and, consequently, Jane Austen’s youth.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: of
...ning notices that the portrait could be of any of Jane's relatives, once on that tim...
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...mposed by teenagers, what could explain the resemble features passed down by relative to rel...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...onsequently, Jane Austen's youth.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, apparently, besides, consequently, however, if, nevertheless, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1324.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38211382114 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97227588793 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60162601626 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 35.0 21.2450331126 165% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.620770513 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 189.142857143 110.228320801 172% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.1428571429 21.698381199 162% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.2857142857 7.06452816374 188% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344766653238 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171658808841 0.0996497079465 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102075864861 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206691837143 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0583138561893 0.0443174109184 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 21.5 13.3589403974 161% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.95 53.8541721854 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 11.0289183223 153% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.52 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 10.498013245 152% => OK
text_standard: 22.0 11.2008830022 196% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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