TP-CASTT
A literary device the poet uses
What is diction?
What is imagery?
What is selection of detail?
The year the poem was written
When is 1994?
The speaker
Who is unknown third party?
The teacher's way of protecting students
What is lying/misleading?
The change if the poem was written in the POV of the students
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?
The teacher's version of the Ice Age
What is The Chilly Age?
The change if the poem was written in POV of teacher
What is more insight into the teacher’s direct motives for lying?
The poem's 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 the present or future tense
What is more evidence on if the lies continued and if it continued to affect the students?
The number of shifts in the poem
What is five?
The poet's birthplace
Where is New York?
Poem's genre
What is satire?
The teacher's version of the Spanish Inquisition
What is an outbreak of questions?
The result of the author's imagination
What is all the ways the teacher could possibly twist the truth?
What is a situation between parties who are at a disadvantage in terms of knowledge?
Potential title change
What is "Innocence"?
What is "History"?
The college from which the poet graduated
What is Lehman College?
Literary components that define the poem's inner structure
What is agent changes?
What is sentence length changes?
What is no tense change?
What is increasing 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?