AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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POETRY
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Read the following poem excerpt and answer the question.
During the wildfire, we pack the car
with photo albums and the dog's medicine.
The sky is a bruised ceiling.
Ash drifts down like slow punctuation.
At the checkpoint, a firefighter
waves us forward with a tired arm.
In the rearview mirror, our street vanishes
behind a moving curtain of smoke.
On the dashboard, a pinecone I picked up last fall
rolls with every turn, clicking softly
as if counting what we can't carry.
In context, the pinecone most likely functions as a symbol of
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