41. One of the best-known modern studies of mimesis , understood as a form of representation of the visual appearance of things. 42. In " Christianizing Homer ", MacDonald lays down his principles of literary mimesis , his methodology for comparing ancient texts. 43. Active camouflage could in theory exploit counterillumination in both the mimesis by depicting an object such as a car when viewed in infrared. 44. Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis ( its representation of reality ), expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. 45. The group continued to accept the concepts of history painting and mimesis , imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. 46. After Visiting Hours ( poem ); Mimesis 6 ( Winter 2010 ); reprinted in Boston Review, May / June 2010. 47. Mimesis is common in prey animals, for example when a peppered moth caterpillar mimics a twig, or a grasshopper mimics a dry leaf.48. Literary critic Thomas Pavel argues that the fictional world deserves to be examined on its own terms rather than merely through the lens of mimesis . 49. Latin orators and rhetoricians adopted the literary method of Dionysius "'imitatio " and discarded Aristotle's " mimesis ". 50. In his novels he would emphasise loyalty to the real world, thus he would use mimesis , but combined it with his fascination with romanticism.