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.