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This story revolves around two step brothers and their mother. One of the brother Alexis lives with his father and other brother is Aaron who lives with his mother. Both of the brothers have never seen each other.
Alexis returns to meet his mother since his father is going to India for some religious matters. When Alexis reaches the airport he meets his step brother Aaron for the first time.
During their journey from airport to home Alexis shows off his seventeen scars to Aaron and tells a story for each scar. Aaron is not interested in these stories and does not believes in the stories narrated by Alexis.
Alexis has a habit of using abusive language but his mother interrupts and forbade him to use these type of words but he continues using this language without letting his mother know as he then speaks in lower tone so that his mother doesn't notices his abusive language.
They stop their car at Burger King for dinner but Alexis does not eat anything except for fries since he is vegan. When they return to car due to some issue his mother starts crying and worrying about the problem but Alexis helps his mother in fixing the issue.
When they reach the house, Alexis went to backyard and Aaron follows him to see. Alexis have coke in his hand along with 1 white envelopes in which he has several white pills. He eats 2 pills and has it with coke and also offers these pills to Aaron and he has 1 of it. When they go to dining table suddenly everything seems slow to Aaron and he feels that his mother is talking in underwater. Aaron and Alexis both look at each other and laugh loudly.
The poetic device that is used in "As his classmates teased him about his new glasses, his heart was a stone" is the metaphor.
<h3>What is a poetic device?</h3>
In poetry, language is used with non-literary meanings that make the poet better express the theme of the poem.
The most common poetic devices include:
- Alliteration
- Metaphor
- Imagery
- Personification
- Simile
<h3>What is metaphor?</h3>
This is a common poetic or literary device in which the poet describes a person, animal, object, situation, etc. by comparing this to another element.
<h3>Why does the phrase uses metaphor?</h3>
Metaphor is used in " his heart was a stone" because the author of this line is comparing the heart of the boy with a stone, most likely to express the way the attitude of the boy changed.
Learn more about metaphor in: brainly.com/question/13020675
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A is correct! Alliteration is the repetitiveness of words and that has a lot of B’s in it.
Adverb. When dealing with adverbs always ask When, Where, How, How Often? IN describes where the leftovers were placed.
