Love's Vocabulary Figurative Language

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In the essay, Love’s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman, the figurative language that Ackerman uses in lines 60-62 is an analogy to describe how love is not monotone or uniform. The analogy that Ackerman uses, helps support her idea that love is not monotone or uniform due to the fact that it helps the reader understand that love may vary. In lines 60-62 the author writes,”Like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” This an analogy because it starts as a simile, comparing love not being monotone or uniform to a batik with the word like. What makes this an analogy is that Ackerman continues to build on that idea when she says the second part of the quote,” it is a fabric whose pattern and
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