This document provides prompts for analyzing the tone, word choice, imagery, style, and theme in two poems: "This Land is Your Land" and "The New Colossus." For each poem, it lists the same five elements - tone, word choice, imagery, style, and theme - and prompts the reader to identify and discuss examples of each from the given text.

1. T.W.I.S.T. #1
“This Land is Your Land”
Tone What is the tone of this poem? Are there any shifts in tone? Where? What lines
or words help reveal the tone?
Word
Choice
(diction)
What are some of the word choices that contribute to the poem’s overall effect
and meaning?
Imagery What are some examples of imagery in this poem? What senses do the examples
affect?
Style What are some examples of the author’s style (What poetic devices are used?
What rhyming patterns or rhythm patterns are used or lacking? How and why do
the lines break?)
Theme What is the overall theme or universal idea created by this poem?

2. T.W.I.S.T. #2
“The New Colossus”
Tone What is the tone of this text? Are there any shifts in tone? Where? What lines
or words help reveal the tone?
Word
Choice
(diction)
What are some of the word choices that contribute to the text’s overall effect
and meaning?
Imagery What are some examples of imagery in this text? What senses do the examples
affect?
Style What are some examples of the author’s style (What poetic devices are used?
What stylistic patterns are used or lacking?)
Theme What is the overall theme or universal idea created by this text?