Hanging Fire and Summer of his 14th Year

Front

The speaker in the poem feels ____________

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dissatisfied with many aspects of her life

Front

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• my skin has betrayed me
• my room is too small for me
• they will sing sad melodies
• I should have been on Math Team

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my skin has betrayed me

Front

The image of the closed bedroom door suggests that the speaker...

Back

craves attention from her mother

Front

In "Summer of his Fourteenth Year," the speaker-

Back

accepts that change is part of growing up

Front

Which of the following is an example of simile?

• as tensely strong as the tennis racket he grips
• intermittent impulses, quickly sated
• Wailing guitars weave a cocoon
• Surliness is his knife

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as tensely strong as the tennis racket he grips

Front

An important message in "Summer of his Fourteenth Year" is that-

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leaving childhood behind is hard for parents and teens