In two to three sentences, explain how the context of Quindlen’s piece affects your understanding of the central idea. Use details from the op-ed in your response.

the answer is: apostrophe and allusion.

apostrophe refers to a poetic technique that is used to address an absent individual or an abstract idea/being. allusion on the other hand is a poetic technique that being done by making an indirect reference to other person with a high level of significance (could be historically or culturally significant)

lab rats that ate more artifical sweeter gained more weight than those who ate sugar and they had “lower levels of a hormone called glp-1, which affects how full we feel.”