Using Tpcastt For Analysis Of Poetry Activity Sheet
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The Butterfly
- Using TPCASTT
for Analysis of Poetry
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Title
What do the words of the title suggest to you? What denotations are
presented in the title? What connotations or associations do the words
possess?
Personal response from your brain
P
Paraphrase
Translate each sentence of the poem in your own words. What is the poem
about?
An imprisoned person in the Nazi ghetto describes a butterfly and the
speaker reflects on it being the last one in the ghetto.
C
Connotation
What meaning does the poem have beyond the literal meaning? Fill in the
chart below.
Form
Diction
Imagery
(appeals to 5 senses)
List 3 examples of
Richly, brightly, dazzlingly
Free verse or Lyric
unique diction used by
yellow
the author
1.
penned up
4
Sun’s tears would sing
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against a white stone
dandelions call to me
2.
Such a yellow is carried
last repeated word
3.
lightly way up high
Point of View
Details
Allusions
The butterfly went away
1
st person
to kiss the world goodbye
it’s leaving forever
3
rd
person limited
Narrator is drawn to the
3
rd
person omniscient
dandelions and other
flowers in the court.
(Circle one)
Butterflies don’t live in
the ghetto.
Symbolism
Figurative Language
Other Devices
List at least one symbol and give
Find a smile, metaphor, hyperbole,
(irony, oxymoron, paradox,
an explanation of why it’s
Personification
pun)
symbolism
Write the example from the poem
Butterfly symbolizes
and label it
The sun’s tears sing
freedom. It can fly
The dandelions call to
away and leave the
me
ghetto.
(personification)
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