In the essay Love’s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman the figurative language that the author uses is analogy to support that love is not monotone and uniform through the lines 60-62. As Ackerman is explaining about love she mentions, “ Like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” This stipulates that batik is representing love for the reason that it expresses different emotions and colors through the whole batik. Also as Ackerman is talking about feeling when you go into an elevator she claims “ People search for love as if the desert dunes, where pleasure is the the law the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.” This indicates that people look for love in a
