AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Read the following original poem excerpt:
My sister and I divide the attic by flashlight,
pulling winter coats from their plastic skins.
Dust rises like old arguments we never finished.
In a shoebox we find letters—our names misspelled,
postmarked from a town we left without goodbye.
She wants to burn them. I want to keep them.
We stand on opposite sides of the same silence,
holding the past like a fragile plate.
Between us, the air tightens into a line:
Achilles' heel—not my weakness, but ours,
the one tender spot we refuse to guard.
In context, the allusion to Achilles' heel primarily functions to
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