POPTTTISS

=POPTTTISS = //An acronym for a series of elements to consider when annotating a poem (or a passage)//.

Plot ..............................................what's happening in the passage? Oral devices................................such as rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia   Point of view.................................of the narrator, speaker or character    Title..............................................significance    Theme.........................................writer's message    Tone...........................................attitude of narrator or speaker toward subject    Imagery..........................................images that incroporate sensory details    Sentence structure.........................length, variety, and complexity    Setting on page.................................such as words captalized or in italics