1 / 9

USING A TP CASTT

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.

yuval
Download Presentation

USING A TP CASTT

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. USING A TP CASTT A student guide to poetry analysis

  2. What is the title? • What do you think the title means? • What does it suggest this work is about? Title

  3. Put the content of the work in your own words. • Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line Paraphrase

  4. Pick out words with strong emotional attachments—Connotations. • Analyze the words and their connotations • This will help you identify the attitude (tone) Connotation

  5. What is the overall attitude of the work? • What textual support do you have? • Look at other sections of the TP CASTT Attitude

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

  7. What is your understanding of the title now? • How is it different from before? Title

  8. 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? Theme

  9. Thesis/TS states the theme • Use TP CASTT to structure rest of paragraph to support your analysis of the theme. Theme Analysis

More Related