Read the lines below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows.

my father won’t talk about the numbers 3-7-8-2-5 between the wrist and elbow blue as blood as his left forearm.

which technique is used in these excerpted lines?
a. irony
b. fixed verse
c. simile
d. conceit

0) "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important. which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?