AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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POETRY
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Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.
Title: "Night Shift"
At three a.m. the hospital corridor
is a long, bleached throat.
Shoes squeak; a cart rattles past
with blankets stacked like unspoken prayers.
In Room 14, the old man's monitor
writes green cursive in the dark.
His daughter sleeps in a chair,
chin tucked, guarding nothing.
The nurse adjusts the IV and whispers,
so the silence won't shatter.
What is the function of the word shatter in the final line?
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