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