AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Read the poem below, in which a speaker describes returning to a childhood home now being sold.
Title: "Open House"
The realtor's shoes make soft apologies
across the hardwood.
She points to "natural light"
as if it grew here on purpose.
In my old room, the wall still bears
a faint pencil ladder—
the marks where I measured myself
against summers.
Downstairs, strangers admire the fireplace.
Someone says "cozy,"
and the word lands wrong,
like a coat on a different body.
Outside, the FOR SALE sign sways.
I pocket the brochure,
then, without thinking,
tear it cleanly in half.
How does the poem's sequence—from the realtor's practiced tour to the private discovery of the pencil marks and finally the act of tearing the brochure—primarily develop the speaker's attitude toward the sale?
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