using a tp castt
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USING A TP CASTTA student guide to poetry analysis
Title
What is the title?What do you think the title means?What does it suggest this work is about?
Paraphrase
Put the content of the work in your own words.
Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line
Connotation
Pick out words with strong emotional attachments—Connotations.
Analyze the words and their connotationsThis will help you identify the attitude
(tone)
Attitude
What is the overall attitude of the work?◦What textual support do you have?
Look at other sections of the TP CASTT
Shifts
Are there shifts in attitude?Where are they?What is the shift?Textual evidence?
Title
What is your understanding of the title now?◦How is it different from before?
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?
Theme Analysis
Thesis/TS states the themeUse TP CASTT to structure rest of
paragraph to support your analysis of the theme.
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