First Contact by Hattie Grunewald

The poem First Contact is written by

• JK Rowlling

• Shelly Silverstein

• Hattie Grunewald

• Henry James

First Contact is about

• improving eyesight

• wearing contact lenses

• discarding spectacles

• transformation with contact lenses

The speaker in the poem is

• a young child

• a teenager

• a ten your old child

• a young woman

In the line, 'The day the optician unframed my face', the word unframed is a ... that refers to ....

• simile ... growing up

• metaphor ... becoming a teenager

• alliteration ... becoming a teenager

• personification ... leaving one's childhood behind

'I would no longer hide behind glass' means the speaker will

• not wear glasses anymore

• the speaker's eyes will be visible

• the speaker will be visible and notices

• the speaker will become popular

In the line, 'I balanced my life on the ball of my finger', the word balanced is a ...

• metaphor

• personification

• word choice

• irony

The word balanced embodies the speaker's

• struggle of making sense of her life

• ability to juggle her responsibilities

• discovery of the joys of being a teenager

• inexperience and uncertainties of navigating the adult world

The speaker must have felt __________ when no one noticed her in her contact lenses

• angry

• indifferent

• envious

• disappointed