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AP English Literature and Composition Flashcards: Function Of Symbols Poetry

Study Function Of Symbols Poetry in AP English Literature and Composition with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is the function of a symbol placed in the final line or couplet?

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ANSWER

To crystallize the poem's meaning or complicate the ending. Final placement emphasizes symbolic weight.

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Read the poem embedded below, then answer the question. We clean out my grandmother's house in a single weekend, moving through rooms like careful thieves. The curtains smell of fried onions and hymnals. In the attic, heat presses its palm to our necks while boxes exhale their paper years. My cousin finds letters tied with ribbon, I find the broken compass in a tin of buttons— its needle pinned forever to a shallow tremble. "Your granddad carried it overseas," my aunt says, and sets it back as if it might wake. Downstairs, the realtor measures doorways, calling them by numbers, not by memories. In context, the broken compass most likely symbolizes​
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