TP-CASTT

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TP-CASTT

• Strategy to Analyze Poetry

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TP-CASTT

• Title
• Paraphrase
• Connotation
• Attitude
• Shifts
• Title
• Theme

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Title

• Review the title before reading
• Predict what the poem is about

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Paraphrase

• Literal meaning
• Whats going on?
• Restate poem in your own words

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Connotation (Poetic Devices)

• Figurative Language
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Symbolism
• Diction (Word Choice)
• Point of view
• Sound Devices

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Attitude (Tone)

• Speakers attitude toward the subject

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Shifts (Changes)

• Key words (but, yet, however, although)
• Punctuation
• Stanza divisions
• Irony
• Changes in diction

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Title (again)

• Revisit title
• Was your original inference correct?

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Theme

• What the poet is saying about the subject?
• Overall lesson/universal message