Expository writing, often thought to be boring or mundane, can be made interesting by only the best of writers. In “Chocolate Equals Love”, Diane Ackerman eased the readers into the informative middle section with jocular remarks incorporated into the introduction and ending. By using figurative language and organizational patterns, Diana Ackerman displayed her immense love for chocolate by explaining its history, benefits, and uniqueness with a sprinkle of levity, anecdotes and professionalism.
The first paragraph used slightly suggestive language and short fragments to seduce the reader’s heart. The “dark, divine, sense bludgeoning chocolate” that adds “a hint of mischief to your desire” implants a lustful curiosity to attract the audience’s …show more content…
“Aztecs worshipped chocolate.. as a gift from...god”, implying chocolate is viewed as “God’s food”, like ambrosia in Greek mythology, and is worthier than gold. In addition, “chocolate’s bewitching lusciousness” prompted some Aztecs to drink “as many as 2000 pitchers every day”. Ackerman description of the Aztec’s unhealthy sweet tooth for chocolate was tinged with surprise and little envy, wishing that she was the one enjoying the unlimited flow of the elixir. The “bubbly thick” chocolate oozing out of the “golden cups” painted the picture of a hedonistic king, sitting in an opulent throne, with hundreds of slaves by his side and this cup of chocolate, the center of everyone’s gaze. The importance of chocolate in Aztec was tremendous, and chocolate even“dominated every facet of Aztec life”, as if the whole civilization grew around this one plant. The respect and dependence the Aztec have towards chocolate, similarly showed the how the author see chocolate: like an upper being. This “invigorating and sublimely dangerous” item could buy “a slave with 100 beans, a display of how precious chocolate was and its omnipotent influence on the Aztec Society. When Cortés, who the Aztec though was a God, first tried chocolate, he “hated chocolate’s shocking taste...But in time its magic seduced him”. Chocolate’s power to …show more content…
The “ sensory jolt–less devilish” quality in chocolate was seemed as a “pleasantly addictive” substitution for alcohol”. This changed the lifestyle of the European, which used to be based around liquor, and enthralled the elite class.”Ladies sipped several cups a day...drinking during church service” reveal how chocolate is present in every part of people’s life, even in solemn places like church. “Doctor prescribed chocolate” because they believe it could “lift the spirit, hasten healing, and raise..libido”, which indicated that, medically, chocolate is used as a panacea,not only as a beverage. The more risqué sixth and seventh paragraph showed how chocolate is used sexually by including humor and diction. The two, short fragments that compose the sixth paragraph were funny remarks that were precursor to the seventh paragraph. The “exquisitely refined...drug-level chocolate” Louis XV’s mistress ate before meeting with her suitors showed how chocolate was a stimulant that can be added to increase pleasure as none other enhancements had done
The first paragraph used slightly suggestive language and short fragments to seduce the reader’s heart. The “dark, divine, sense bludgeoning chocolate” that adds “a hint of mischief to your desire” implants a lustful curiosity to attract the audience’s …show more content…
“Aztecs worshipped chocolate.. as a gift from...god”, implying chocolate is viewed as “God’s food”, like ambrosia in Greek mythology, and is worthier than gold. In addition, “chocolate’s bewitching lusciousness” prompted some Aztecs to drink “as many as 2000 pitchers every day”. Ackerman description of the Aztec’s unhealthy sweet tooth for chocolate was tinged with surprise and little envy, wishing that she was the one enjoying the unlimited flow of the elixir. The “bubbly thick” chocolate oozing out of the “golden cups” painted the picture of a hedonistic king, sitting in an opulent throne, with hundreds of slaves by his side and this cup of chocolate, the center of everyone’s gaze. The importance of chocolate in Aztec was tremendous, and chocolate even“dominated every facet of Aztec life”, as if the whole civilization grew around this one plant. The respect and dependence the Aztec have towards chocolate, similarly showed the how the author see chocolate: like an upper being. This “invigorating and sublimely dangerous” item could buy “a slave with 100 beans, a display of how precious chocolate was and its omnipotent influence on the Aztec Society. When Cortés, who the Aztec though was a God, first tried chocolate, he “hated chocolate’s shocking taste...But in time its magic seduced him”. Chocolate’s power to …show more content…
The “ sensory jolt–less devilish” quality in chocolate was seemed as a “pleasantly addictive” substitution for alcohol”. This changed the lifestyle of the European, which used to be based around liquor, and enthralled the elite class.”Ladies sipped several cups a day...drinking during church service” reveal how chocolate is present in every part of people’s life, even in solemn places like church. “Doctor prescribed chocolate” because they believe it could “lift the spirit, hasten healing, and raise..libido”, which indicated that, medically, chocolate is used as a panacea,not only as a beverage. The more risqué sixth and seventh paragraph showed how chocolate is used sexually by including humor and diction. The two, short fragments that compose the sixth paragraph were funny remarks that were precursor to the seventh paragraph. The “exquisitely refined...drug-level chocolate” Louis XV’s mistress ate before meeting with her suitors showed how chocolate was a stimulant that can be added to increase pleasure as none other enhancements had done