AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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In the following original poem, the speaker watches a younger sibling practice piano. What is the primary function of the simile "like coins dropped into a deep well"?
You sit too straight on the bench,
counting the measures with your lips.
Each note falls from your hand—hesitant,
bright, then swallowed by the room,
like coins dropped into a deep well.
I listen for the wish inside the sound,
the way you keep trying again
as if effort could make water answer.
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