Poetry Analysis
Poetic Devices
STEAL
Character Types
Grammar
100
The "A" in TP-CASTT.
What is Analysis?
100
The author's word choice.
What is diction?
100
This describes a character on how they talk.
What is Speech?
100
An important character.
What is a main character?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun.
200
Rewriting the text in a literal definition.
What is Paraphrase?
200
The flowing sounds in language.
What is Euphony?
200
Describes a character based on their behavior.
What are actions?
200
The "hero" of a story.
What is a protagonist?
200
An action.
What is a transitive verb?
300
The message a poem defines.
What is Theme?
300
A brief or indirect reference to a well-known object/person.
What is an allusion?
300
Describes character based on how others act towards them.
What is the Effect on others?
300
A character with little to no uniqueness.
What is a flat character?
300
A connecting verb.
What is a linking verb?
400
A turn in a poem.
What is a Shift?
400
A figure of speech in which a part of something large refers to the whole.
What is a synecdoche?
400
Describes a character through how they think.
What are thoughts?
400
The "villain" of a story.
What is an antagonist?
400
Joins two clauses in pairs.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
500
Any and all literary devices noted by the reader.
What is Connotation.
500
An arrangement of two or more ideas set side by side to make emphasis.
What is juxtaposition?
500
Describes a character based on appearance.
What are Looks?
500
A character that changes as the story develops.
What is a round character?
500
Words that connect two clauses.
What is a Coordinating Conjunction.
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