practice

1. Which quotation supports the idea that love is intangible?

• We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything. (lines 41-42)

• “Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we’re reluctant to linger over its name.” (lines 85-87)

• “People everywhere and everywhen understand the phenomenon of love, just as they understand the appeal of music, finding it deeply meaningful even if they cannot explain exactly what that meaning is, or why they respond viscerally to one composer and not another.” (lines 118-122)

In line 105, Ackerman calls love “a sort of traffic accident of the heart.” What idea about love is she conveying?

• Ackerman is saying that love is a constant in human history.

• The author is saying that people think of love as dangerous because you have little control over it and it can hurt you.

• Ackerman presents love as being heroic, artistic, healing, calming, compassionate, annoying, uplifting, and corrupting.

What evidence best supports the author’s view of Shakespeare as presented in the following lines:

“His legacy exists in the life that lives in everything he’s written,

And me, I see him everywhere, he’s my Shakespeare.” (lines 44-45)

• He knew we hadn’t slept a wink, and that our hearts were upon our sleeves” (lines 22-23)

• “See—he’s less the tights and garters—more the sons demanding answers from the absence of their fathers.” (lines 36-37)

• “His words have tangled round our own and given rise to expressions so effective in expressing how we feel, we can’t imagine how we’d feel without them.”

What does Ackerman mean by the statement, “Love is the white life of emotion?”

• Love is a simplified version of a complex idea.

• Love is bright and feels good.

• Love is like a rainbow

• Love is a lazy feeling.

Define guise

• Something that is difficult to grasp.

• an increase for a standard measure of growth.

• Flexible or easily adaptable

• form or outward appearance

define Supple

• A slight change in color, degree, tone

• form or outward appearance

• Flexible or easily adaptable

define Increment

• A slight change in color, degree, tone

• an increase for a standard measure of growth.

• Flexible or easily adaptable