loves vocab

lines 28-40 What is the simile in the paragraph? Explain whether it has a positive or negative connotation.

"Heavy as a heartbeat." This shows grief, weariness, which makes the connotation negative.

lines 138-145 Explain the simile in these lines. B) What comparison is made? C) What does it say about love?

"It feels like being pierced in the chest by an arrow," sometimes love can feel like intense emotional pain.

lines 1-11 What is the central idea Ackerman presents at the very beginning of the essay? How does she support this idea?

A concept that love is intangible. She called it a dream state, and uses contradictory adjectives

Why does Ackerman say we are embarrassed by love or inhibited about it? What evidence does she cite?

Because it make us vulnerable and we struggle to express it

lines 74-77 How does Ackerman's description of Elizabeth Barrett Browning relate to the earlier statement in lines 15-18 that begins with "Love is the white light of emotion" and ends with "Art is the prism that sets them free"?

Browning's poems are an attempt to get at the meaning of love by giving examples.

lines 85-122 How does the example of the ancient Egyptian woman in the Detroit automobile factory create a bridge between ideas? B) What are those ideas? In what way is their order significant?

First idea is that our vocabulary about love is limited, so we struggle talking about it. The second idea that's being promoted here is that we don't really need or require language to recognize and understand love. The order of the ideas suggests that the authors views are becoming more positive.

lines 41-52 What are some facts, reasons, and examples that Ackerman uses to support her idea that love "can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything"?

First word that students conjugate in latin. Understood as motive for a crime. Keeps generation after generation in motion. It's a positive force that enables the one feeling it

lines 2-4 What is being compared in these lines? B) What connotations do the words have? C) What is their cumulative effect?

Hate is being compared to a vicious predator. Fears are being compared to a bat that's in a tight space. Jealousy is being compared to a spider. These give off negative connotations. She is pilling up these images of nightmarish beasts

. Why does Ackerman include references to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "How Do I Love Thee?" and John Donne's poem "The Flea"? What point is she trying to make by citing these literary works?

Love is hard to describe and 2 people can have distinct ideas of love

Does Ackerman herself find love embarrassing? How do you know?

No because she's done the research and she feels more comfortable talking and expressing her feelings about it

. Does the author answer the question "What is love?" Select the description you think is best and support your choice with evidence from the text.

She does answer the question, that it's intangible, but she doesn't define it clearly. She thinks love is a lot of things.

lines 66-73 What is the author's tone in this passage? Explain how the author's choice of words creates this tone?

She's describing it in an affectionate way and an engaging way. Light, engaging, and an affectionate tone. The words she's choosing have warm, comforting connotations. We need to have behavior and actions to clarify the meaning of "love."

lines 143-145 Explain the tone of the description in these lines. What word choices create that tone?

Tone is romantic. "city lost, treasure that's hidden" you have to go find it. Love is a little dance you have to figure out which way he/she is going. mysterious. Trying to create images.

lines 155-156 Which sentence in the final paragraph repeats the idea expressed in lines 126-127? How does the second statement expand on the first statement?

custom, culture, and taste vary, but not love itself, not the essence of the emotion. Tons of things will change throughout history, the essence of love doesn't.