Chaz and Michael used to be best friends but had grown apart when they started high school. Chaz, a good-looking baseball player
, was accepted into the popular group, while Michael, a shy "bookworm," kept quiet and tried not to draw attention to himself. After a party, Chaz gets into trouble and is abandoned by his new friends. Michael agrees to help him, even though they haven't spoken in a long time. Which sentence best states the complex theme of the passage?
A. Popular people are not very good friends.
B. Chaz learns a lesson about friendship.
C. Friendship
D. True friends will always be there for you.
The best choice that responds to the scenario above is letter d, true friendship will always be there for you. It is because even though they don't talk anymore, Michael has extended his hand for him even if they don't belong to the same group or does hang out like they used to. Even if Chaz's friends left him because he had trouble, Michael is the only friend that he could count on and remains true to him even if they are not on the same page anymore.
Based on the line given above from the poem "Tattoo" written by Gregg Shapiro, the poetic device or technique used in the line is metaphor. Metaphor is a poetic device that uses comparison between two unlike objects. In this line, "We" is being compared to "continents" that are worlds apart.
