Element Definitions
The similarity of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme?
Paraphrase the poem
Someone conquered living
and feels better this way
because he's actually getting rest
he no longer feels the horrible pain
that people call "living".
"The moaning and groaning, sighing, and sobbing,"
Rhyme
Explain what's happening in the following line:
"As I lie at full length"
The speaker is dead because he's laying down like when people die.
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from concrete?"
The rose symbolizes people in Tupac's poem.
What is a metaphor?
What is the attitude of the line, " Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength, and no muscle I move as I lie at full length."
Any word other than 'sad' or 'depressed'.
"The fever called "Living" is conquered at last.."
Metaphor
Explain what's happening in the following line:
At heart: - ah, that horrible, horrible, horrible throbbing!
The author thinks negatively about his heartbeat. He thinks it's just some horrible throbbing.
What is an allusion?
The reference of another thing in literature.
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words near one another.
What is alliteration?
Attitude:
"The sickness- the nausea - the pitiless pain..."
Assonance
Explain what's happening in the following line:
That burned in my brain.
The author thinks the brain is the center of all our living because it's the thing that keeps us all truly alive.
What is anadiplosis?
Using the final word of a line to begin the next line.
The repetition of words that begin a line in multiple lines.
What is anaphora?
Explain the shift that occurs in stanza 4.
The author creates a 'loudness' of what it was like to be alive. Then, he shifts to a quietness that is occurring because he's finally dead.
The pitiless pain - Have ceased
Alliteration
Explain what's happening in the following line:
And I rest so composedly, now in my bed,
The author thinks death is finally his time to rest.
What is an apostrophe?
In a poem, addressing a person who is gone or a thing.
The repetition of vowel sounds in words near one another that do not rhyme.
What is assonance?
varies....
Topic: living/death
Might start at beholding me,
Anaphora
Explain what's happening in the following line:
The danger, is past...
The author thinks life is just a dangerous thing.
What does TPCASTT stand for?
Title Paraphrase Connotation Attitude Shift Title Theme