AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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In the following excerpt from an original drama, Jasper, an aging jazz pianist, speaks to Mina, a young journalist, after she asks why he never recorded his most famous club set.
MINA: People would pay to hear it.
JASPER: People pay for souvenirs.
MINA: Is that what a record is to you?
JASPER: A record is a cage with good acoustics.
MINA: You're romanticizing it.
JASPER: No. I'm warning you. The night you're chasing was alive. It sweated. It missed notes on purpose.
MINA: Then why won't you tell me what happened?
JASPER: Because the truth is tender—and you'll bruise it into a headline.
The word tender most strongly functions to
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