Some TPCASTT
A literary device the poet uses.
What is diction?
What is imagery?
What is selection of detail?
The year the poem was written in.
When is 1994?
The speaker.
Who is unknown third party?
The teacher's way of protecting students.
What is lying/misleading?
What is a more immersive vision of how the teacher is affecting them?
The poet's attitude.
What is reflective?
What is cautionary?
What is critical?
The poem's author.
Who is William "Billy" Collins?
The audience.
Who is everyone/universal?
What is The Chilly Age?
The change if the poem was written in POV of teacher.
What is more insight on the teacher’s direct motives for lying?
The poems theme.
What is "don't trade honesty for innocence"?
The president when the poem was written.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The climax.
What is the students bullying the weaker.
The teacher's version of the Stone Age.
What is The Gravel Age?
The change if this poem was written in present or future tense.
What is more evidence on if the lies continued, and if it continued to affect the students?
The location the poet was born in.
Where is New York?
Poem's genre.
What is satire?
The teacher's version of the Spanish Inquisition.
What is an outbreak of questions?
What is all the ways the teacher could possibly twist the truth?
What is a whole situation between parties who are at a disadvantage in terms of knowledge?
The college the poet graduated from.
What is Lehman College?
Things that define the poem's inner structure.
What is agent changes?
What is sentence length changes?
What is no tense change?
What is more sensual words?
The teacher's version of Enola Gay.
What is one tiny atom dropped on Japan.
The reason the poem is ironic.
What is how teacher’s attempts are actually harming the kids in the long run rather than protecting them categorizes this as satire?