33 pages • 1 hour read
Ted KooserAbandoned Farmhouse
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Answers
1. personification
2. A. Enjambment is a sentence without a pause at the end of a line of verse; the line “steps over” into the next line.
3. A. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter of two adjacent or near-adjacent words.
4. C. The toys are “rusty” and “broken” (Line 23) and they’re left strewn across the yard “like branches after a storm” (Line 22). Because the reader doesn’t know what happened, the toys generally symbolize loss and the end of the child’s dreams.
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