TPCASTT - The Road Not Taken

What does the first T stand for in TPCASTT?

• Theme
• Title
• Tone
• Thesis

What does the C stand for in TPCASTT?

• Critique
• Connotation
• Catharsis
• Caricature

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the P stand for in TPCASTT?

• Protagonist
• Paraphrase
• Punctuation
• Point of View

What does the A stand for in TPCASTT?

• Attitude
• Anaphora
• Anti-climax
• Atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

What does the S stand for in TPCASTT?

• Simile
• Synechdoche
• Sanity
• Shift

What does the second T stand for in TPCASTT?

• Theme

• Tone

• Title

• Thesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What does the last T stand for in TPCASTT?

• Tone

• Theme

• Title

• Thesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

According to the speaker, what "has made all the difference" (line 20)?

• He or she took the first of the two roads.
• He or she took the road less traveled by.
• He or she took the road that bent in the undergrowth.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is the setting of this poem?

• a quiet street on the edge of a town
• a forest in the middle of winter
• a wood with two roads in it

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The speaker of the poem wishes that he or she did not have to make a choice between the roads.
What lines from the poem support this statement?

• And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood
• Though as for that, the passing there/Had worn them really about the same
• And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4