TP-CASTT
The "P" in TP-CASTT stands for this.
What is paraphrase?
Comparing two things without using any comparative words ("like" "as").
When a poem has a set pattern where the words at the end of each line sound the same; the poem is said to have one of these.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Since the whole poem was comparing a road to life choices it is said to be an example of this.
What is an extended metaphor?
The author of "Mother to Son".
Who is Langston Hughes?
The only step that repeats in TP-CASTT.
What is title?
Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of multiple lines of poetry.
What is anaphora?
A poem written without a set rhyme scheme or structure is written in this style.
What is freeverse?
The author of "The Road Not Taken".
Who is Robert Frost?
The speaker in the poem.
Who is the mother?
They step where you look for the deeper meaning and the figurative language used in a poem.
What is connotation?
A phrase that is understood to have a meaning to a certain group of people. "In one ear and out the other."
What is an idiom?
The word choice, syntax, and diction in a poem helps create this for the speaker in a poem.
What is voice?
The poem was broken into this many stanzas?
what is four?
The mother compares her life to one of these.
What is a staircase?
When you are looking for how the poet feels about his subject you are looking this.
What is attitude?
The use of the same beginning sound in multiple words in the same line of a poem.
What is alliteration?
The reason the poet uses poetic devices in their writing.
What is emphasis?
This was the rhyme scheme of "The Road Not Taken".
What is abaab?
This word was used at the beginning of six different lines to reinforce the fact you should always keep moving.
What is "AND"?
When the poet changes his attitude it is called this.
What is shifts?
Repeating vowel sounds in words that are close by in a poem.
What is assonance?
Two lines in a poem that do not have punctuation between them because they are meant to be read without a pause in between.
What is an enjambment?
These are the two pieces of evidence that lets you know this poem takes place in fall.
What are the yellow woods and fresh fallen leaves?
In the poem the mother compares an easy life to a staircase made out of this material.
What is crystal?