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USING A TP CASTT A student guide to poetry analysis

USING A TP CASTT

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USING A TP CASTT. A student guide to poetry analysis. What is the title? What do you think the title means? What does it suggest this work is about?. Title. Put the content of the work in your own words. Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line. Paraphrase. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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USING A TP CASTTA student guide to poetry analysis

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Title

What is the title?What do you think the title means?What does it suggest this work is about?

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Paraphrase

Put the content of the work in your own words.

Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line

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Connotation

Pick out words with strong emotional attachments—Connotations.

Analyze the words and their connotationsThis will help you identify the attitude

(tone)

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Attitude

What is the overall attitude of the work?◦What textual support do you have?

Look at other sections of the TP CASTT

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Shifts

Are there shifts in attitude?Where are they?What is the shift?Textual evidence?

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Title

What is your understanding of the title now?◦How is it different from before?

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Theme

Based on the work you have done for the TP CASTT, what do you think the theme is?◦What textual evidence do you have?◦What inferences or prior knowledge led you

there?

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Theme Analysis

Thesis/TS states the themeUse TP CASTT to structure rest of

paragraph to support your analysis of the theme.