A theme is a universal lesson learned and the central idea is a one-sentence main idea.
- <em>Central idea</em> conveys that the text is about mainly, whereas, <em>theme </em>refers to the author's message, life lesson or moral learned from the story.
- A <em>central idea</em> cannot be referred to as the topic of the text, on the other hand, a <em>theme</em> cannot be same as topic.
- In one sentence, the<em> central idea </em>can be stated, whereas, <em>themes</em> are repeated and can be multiple.
Therefore, a theme is not the central idea, nor it can act as a topic of the text.
During the American colonial period, nearly every colonist was puritanical, and they were very strict in their abiding by the Old Testament in the Christian Bible. However, American romanticism basically went against every practice of Puritanism, creating works of absurd fictions, such as epics and fantasies. Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most renowned romanticism authors in the world. Shakespeare is another, even though he obviously wasn't American.
I would go with D) It helps show the author's voice because the author is saying that the person is making him sad at night so u could say he is opening his feelings.
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.
