TWIST Strategy

What do we use the TWIST strategy to analyze?

• short stories

• nonfiction

• prose

• poetry

What does the first T stand for in TWIST?

• Tone

• Title

• Theme

• The Meaning

What does the W stand for in TWIST?

• Word Choice

• What does it mean?

• What do you know?

• Where does it take place?

If we paraphrase a poem, what do we do?

• Summarize the lines and stanzas

• Read the poem aloud

• Determine the theme of the poem

• Determine the tone

True or False: The speaker is always the poet.

• True

• False

What does the I stand for in TWIST?

• Identify the speaker

• Identify the poetic devices

• Identify the rhyme scheme

• Identify the theme

What does the S stand for in TWIST?

• Speaker and Structure

• Structure and Setting

• Setting and Symbolism

• Speaker and Symbolism

What does the last T stand for in TWIST?

• Tone

• Title

• Theme

• Theme and Tone

Which is the best definition of poetry?

• An emotional response to the world around use by choosing words for their meaning and sound

• An emotional response to the world around us by using rhyming words

• Choosing words that sound good set to music

• Poems are not prose

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True

• False