P.O.E.T.S.
Characterization
What are you inferring?
Conflict
Potpourri
100
This is the first step in annotating a poem.
What is preface? Looking at the title and any pictures.
100
This is where the author tells you all about it up front.
What is direct characterization?
100
This is the definition of inferring.
Using reason and logic to come a conclusion.
100
This is a conflict that goes on inside.
What is internal conflict?
100
This is Mr. B's favorite NFL team.
Who are the Cowboys?
200
This is the what, where, and when of annotating a poem.
What is the occasion?
200
The author gives hints and clues in his writing to let you know about the character.
What is indirect characterization?
200
This is the season inferred in this picture.
What is the fall?
200
This is conflict that exists outside a character.
What is external conflict?
200
He lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is SpongeBob?
300
This the emotion the author is trying project in his poem.
What is tone?
300
This is the acrostic to remember how to determine indirect characterization.
What is STEAL?
300
This is reason for the celebration inferred in this picture.
What is the team won?
300
This the classic kind of conflict in a novel.
What is character v. character?
300
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
What are the FANBOYS?
400
The theme tells us all about this.
What is the moral or message of the poem.
400
This is what the "E" in STEAL stands for.
What is effect?
400
This can be inferred based on this statement:
A police officer enters the house, which has been completely ransacked.
What is a crime has been committed?
400
This is where you are battling against the elements.
What is character vs. nature?
400
This happened when Thanos snapped his fingers.
What is 1/2 of all life was destroyed / disappeared?
500
It could be a narrator or one of the characters.
Who is the speaker?
500
The character's appearance is what is letter stands for.
What is the "L"?
500
This can be inferred based on this statement:
Your friend walks past you without smiling. Her head is hanging down. She wipes a tear away from her eye, and looks at her report card.
What is she has failing grade?
500
This is where you take a stand against the man.
What is character vs. society?
500
This is what AAAWWUBBIS stands for.
What After, Although, As, When, While, Until, Because, Before, If, or Since?"