Question

Match each inference to its supporting evidence from the poem:

Inference Options ( 4 of 4 )
The speaker used to be a teenager.

The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

The speaker used to be a teenager.

The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

Interactive Chart
Textual Evidence
Inference
Doors and lips shut
and we become strangers
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a code I knew but can’t remember
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I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands.
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familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.One day they disappear into their rooms. Doors and lips shut and we become strangers in our own home. I pace the hall, hear whispers, a code I knew but can't remember, mouthed by mouths I taught to speak. Years later the door opens. I see faces I once held, open as sunflowers in my hands. I see familiar skin now stretched on long bodies that move past me glowing almost like pearls.

Answer 1

- The teenagers do not interact with their parents.
- Evidence: "Doors and lips shut and we become strangers"

- The speaker used to be a teenager.
- Evidence: "a code I knew but can’t remember"

- The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.
- Evidence: "I see faces I once held, open as sunflowers in my hands."

- The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.
- Evidence: "familiar skin now stretched on long bodies that move past me glowing almost like pearls."