Love's Curious For Love Diane Ackerman Analysis

Decent Essays
Whitney Flores
Mr. Medway
Common Core English 9B Period 6
28 May 2017
“Curious for Love” Throughout Diane Ackerman’s essay “Love’s Vocabulary” Ackerman utilizes an inquisitive tone by using the words “yet” and “intangible” to express her curiosity of the different ideas and concepts about love and the divergent types of possibilities of what the word “love” is define as.

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