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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 Questions
1. What literary device is exemplified by the objects offering judgment or interpretation? (short answer)
2. Which of these is an example of enjambment in the poem?
A) “He was a big man, says the size of his shoes / on a pile of broken dishes by the house”
B) “And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.”
C) “And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard”
D) “cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn. / A woman lived with him”
3. Which of these is an example of alliteration?
A) “good, God-fearing”
B) “papered with lilacs”
C) “weed-choked yard”
D) “rusty tractor”
4. What do the toys symbolize in the poem?
A) the child’s poverty
B) the child’s death
C) loss and the end of dreams
D) the end of childhood
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