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TPLASST It is not necessary to identify all the literary features within the poem or passage. However, the ones you do identify should be seen as a way of supporting the conclusions you are going to draw about the poem or passage.. ||
 * T || **Title ** || Before you even think about reading the poem (or passage) or trying to analyze it, speculate on what you think the poem or passage //might// be about based on the title. ||
 * P || **Paraphrase ** || Before you begin thinking about meaning or trying to analyze the poem or passage, don’t overlook the literal meaning of the poem or passage. Be careful not to jump to conclusions before understanding what is taking place in the poem or passage. ||
 * L || **Literary features ** || Identify any literary features, focusing on how such devices contribute to the meaning, the effect, or both of the poem or passage. You may consider
 * Imagery
 * Simile
 * Metaphor
 * Personification
 * Diction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme
 * <span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A || **<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Attitude ** || <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Having identified the poem’s or passage’s features closely, you are now ready to explore the multiple attitudes that may be present in the poem. Examination of diction, images, and details suggests the speaker’s or narrator’s attitude and contributes to understanding. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">S || **<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shifts ** || <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rarely does a poem or passage begin and end in the same place. As it is true of most of us, the speaker’s understanding of an experience or a narrator’s revelation of a scene is a gradual process. Watch for the following keys to shifts:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Key words (//yet, but, however, although//)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, ellipsis)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Stanza divisions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Changes in the line or stanza length or both
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Irony
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Changes in sound that may indicate changes in meaning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Changes in diction ||
 * <span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">T || **<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Title ** || <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Now look at the title again, but this time on an interpretive level. What new insight does the title provide in understanding the poem or passage? ||
 * <span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">T || **<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Theme ** || <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-language: #0400; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What is the poem or passage saying about the human experience, motivation, or condition? What subject or subjects does the poem or passage address? What do you learn about those subjects? What idea does the poet or author want you to take away with you concerning these subjects? //Remember that the theme should be stated in a complete sentence, and it is not a moral.// ||