TPCASTT

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What does the second T stand for in TPCASTT?

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Title

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What does the last T stand for in TPCASTT?

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Theme

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In TPCASTT, what are you looking for when you look at connotation?

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Figurative language, imagery, and sound elements

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When we paraphrase EACH stanza, what should we focus on?

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Main idea of each stanza

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Why do we reanalyze the title of the poem?

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to help guide our thinking for coming up with a theme

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True or False: The theme is the message of the story.

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True

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What is the purpose of analyzing a poem with TPCASTT?

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Each steps helps us dive deeper in finding out the message or theme of the poem

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Paraphrase stanza 1 of the poem "I Too" by Langston Hughes.

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I also am part of America. I am a black member of the American family. They tell me I have to eat alone in the kitchen when they have people over for dinner. But I laugh at their hypocrisy, and eat heartily in order to grow stronger.

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Which of the following is NOT a Shift?

• change in rhyme scheme
• change in the way the poem looks
• change in the topic of the poem
• change in the page number

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change in the page number

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Which words and phrases from the sentence below best shows you the tone? That waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

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"waste" and "destroyed"