A movement that reinforces a verbal message is a gesture.
In my opinion, the correct answer is A. I'<span>ve always been a tinkerer as a teenager. This is the only option that describes him as a teenager, providing one personal trait that characterizes him. The other two options are two general claims that don't have much to do with Nolan as a young man. They could pertain to anyone.</span>
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.
