Loves Vocabulary Diane Ackerman Summary

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Loves Vocabulary Cerer In the essay Loves Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman, the lines 60-62 use the figurative language of analogy due to the extended simile. Analogy supports that love isn't monotone or uniform since batiks are colorful and created with emotional colors which are the opposite of how monotone and uniform love is. Love is being compared to batik when it describes,” love isn’t monotone or uniform. Like a batik created from man emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” Lines 60-62 illustrates that love is like the fabric, batik, that is made as a colorful design made with lots of emotional colors. This states that the figurative language is a part simile for comparing love and the batik but it describes

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