AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Read the following poem, paying attention to the speaker's perspective.
Title: "Minutes from the Meeting"
We approved the budget. We thanked the donors.
We noted the leak above the choir loft.
We tabled the question of the family
sleeping in the vestibule.
I kept my pen moving so no one would see
my hands had started to shake.
The pastor said "prudence," and the room agreed,
a chorus trained to sound like calm.
Afterward, I carried folding chairs to the closet.
The metal legs clacked like small verdicts.
In the dark, the coats smelled of winter
and of people who had somewhere else to go.
How does the speaker's role as an insider taking minutes affect the poem's critique of the group?
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