Understanding Teenagers and Parenting

What does this description reveal about the narrator’s perspective of teenagers?

• The narrator believes that teenagers refuse to communicate with adults.

• The narrator believes that teenagers are secretive to avoid getting in trouble.

• The narrator believes there are aspects of teenagers that adults cannot relate to anymore.

• The narrator believes there are challenges that teenagers only confide in their friends about.

What is the author’s purpose for using repetition in stanza 3?

• to emphasize the narrator’s sadness that they are not closer with their children

• to emphasize the narrator’s surprise that their children matured from teenagers

• to emphasize the narrator’s regret of not connecting with their children as teenagers

• to emphasize the narrator’s acceptance of their children’s transformation into adults

How are the themes “the transition from adolescence to adulthood comes with challenges” and “parenting is a rewarding experience” are developed similarly in the poem?

• by using hyperbole to exaggerate how difficult teenagers can be

• by using similes to show the growth that both the parent and teenagers experience

• by using alliteration to to highlight the lack of support teenagers feel growing up

• by using rhyme to emphasize the attempts the parents tries to make to connect with their children

Which sentence represents a common idea of both “Mad” and “Teenagers”?

• Teenagers often dislike their parents.

• Parents must be patient with teenagers.

• Parents and teenagers are easily frustrated.

• Teenagers struggle to understand their parents.

How does the author of “Teenagers” represent the idea identified in Part A differently from the author of “Mad”?

• “Teenagers” focuses on how angry the adult speaker is at the teenager. While “Mad” uses a young speaker to show how quickly anger passes.

• “Teenagers” focuses on how annoyed the child is at the parent. While “Mad” shows how many different emotions the parent feels raising their child.

• “Teenagers” uses an adult speaker to reflect on the many emotions of raising a child. While “Mad” uses an adult speaker to show how to deal with an angry child.

• “Teenagers” uses an adult speaker to show how the parent is feeling over time. While “Mad” shows how the child views the mother’s actions during a specific moment.