TPO 08- Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
Both the reading and the listening are about whether chevalier de Seingalt’s memories are reliable or not. In the reading part states that in his memories he made his life more attractive than it was in real. Yet, the lecturer argues this point providing comprehensive reasons. The details about this inconsistency are provided below.
Firstly, the author claims that while chevalier was in Switzerland he lended money from Swiss merchant, which proofs that he was not as reach as he showed further. However, the lecturer argues providing chevalier was wealthy but, he needed to sell a kind of his properties to make money. Thus, while waiting for money he lended it from others. Accordingly, he was rich enough to spent great deal of money on a way he wanted.
Secondly, the author point out that skeptics have questioned the conversation records between chevalier and Voltaire bringing forward the fact that the memoir had been written after some years of that very conversations. On the contrary, the speaker again controverts this on account of the fact that after every meeting chevalier wrote down the conversations. this is why, after many years he could use exact phrases accurately.
Thirdly, the author asserts that chevalier's escape from the prison is on doubt. In fact, critics think that one of his friend proposed a bribe for his freedom. In contrast, the lecturer talks about other prisoners who had more influential friends, but could not use that property for themselves. Hence, in the government documents there are all elements of the escape. Moreover, the room where he was locked up after his running was repaired.
In conclusion, it can be noted that there is a contradiction between these two viewpoints. The author doubts that memoirs made by chevalier de Seingalt are trusty, while the speaker has opposite belief.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1570.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18151815182 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74267950059 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577557755776 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3696077386 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2222222222 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8333333333 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.77777777778 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.484781636756 0.272083759551 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129581604962 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790567334607 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229244170499 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0658394890526 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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