TWIST Strategy

What do we use the TWIST strategy to analyze?

• short stories

• nonfiction

• prose

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.10

What does the first T stand for in TWIST?

• Tone

• Title

• Theme

• The Meaning

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

What does the W stand for in TWIST?

• Word Choice

• What does it mean?

• What do you know?

• Where does it take place?

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

If we paraphrase a poem, what do we do?

• Summarize the lines and stanzas

• Read the poem aloud

• Determine the theme of the poem

• Determine the tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

True or False: The speaker is always the poet.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does the I stand for in TWIST?

• Identify the speaker

• Identify the poetic devices

• Identify the rhyme scheme

• Identify the theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

What does the S stand for in TWIST?

• Speaker and Structure

• Structure and Setting

• Setting and Symbolism

• Speaker and Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

What does the last T stand for in TWIST?

• Tone

• Title

• Theme

• Theme and Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

Which is the best definition of poetry?

• An emotional response to the world around use by choosing words for their meaning and sound

• An emotional response to the world around us by using rhyming words

• Choosing words that sound good set to music

• Poems are not prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.4