Keystone Exam

Question 1

Purpose of Keystone Exam

Answer 1

• The state can see if you have absorbed information you are supposed to know
• The state can see how well the teacher is doing an adequate job
• Reflect the district and determine funding
• Graduation requirement

Question 2

Authors Purpose

Answer 2

• Attitude towards the writing/topics - Hidden meaning or reasoning for why the piece was written
• Think about authors life and how that may influence thoughts or opinions
• Persuade, inform, entertain

Question 3

Purpose of Satire

Answer 3

Authors use satire to criticize or ridicule some aspect of human behavior. This is often to promote change. Satire is a humorous way to diss something you think needs to change.

Question 4

Purpose of Symbolism

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Symbolism plays an important role in creating a certain mood feeling or emotion. Authors use symbolism to explain an idea or concept to the reader in a poetic manner without saying it outright. Makes writing more complex and helps to reveal theme often through repetition.

Question 5

Purpose of Simile/Metaphor

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Authors use similes and metaphors in their writing to help readers get a better understanding that visualization and characterization of the concepts being described by making said comparisons.

Question 6

Purpose of Imagery

Answer 6

Imagery allows readers to visualize what is happening and engages their senses to deepen comprehension of the events of the writing.

Question 7

Purpose of Foreshadowing

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Helps to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. Useful to creating dramatic tension, suspense, curiosity and unease.

Question 8

Purpose of Dialect

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Dialect helps writers bring their characters alive through expression and how they speak or what they say and why they say it. Creates a character’s own unique voice and helps them seem real to the readers. Also helps determine the setting to the reader.

Question 9

Purpose of Personification

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Used to visualize and bring the reader in the story, characterize through giving lifelike characteristics to non-human things, add detail and moves the story.

Question 10

Purpose of Flashback

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Flashback recounts events before the story’s sequence of the events to fill in backstory. Builds curiosity and explains the reasoning for the characters’ actions and motivations.

Question 11

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Answer 11

Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact and is the broadest category or literature.

Question 12

Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirement

Answer 12

Silly
Animals
Ruin
Crunchy
Cranberries

Clear Complete Accurate Relevant Specific

Question 13

How many minimum pieces of evidence in each constructed response

Answer 13

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Question 14

Do I need to include in text citations for evidence in constructed response

Answer 14

NAURRR

Question 15

What are the key elements of a constructed response

Answer 15

(All blended) 1. Thesis 2. Context 1-2 sentences 3. First Evidence 4. Analysis 2-3 sentences 5. Evidence 2 6. Analysis 7. Concluding sentence

Question 16

How many paragraphs

Answer 16

1

Question 17

Most important thing for perfecting your approach to responding to a CR?

Answer 17

Answer prompt

Question 18

Main Idea

Answer 18

The key information that the author wants you to know after you finish reading the text

Question 19

How to find main idea

Answer 19

-Identify supporting details and what they have in common
- Summarize each paragraph
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Question 20

Connotation

Answer 20

-Way the world feels
-What is author trying to imply
-How do the words propel the tone or theme
-Different roots to words
-Words appropriate for social situation
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Question 21

Denotation

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-Dictionary definition

Question 22

Rhythm

Answer 22

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Question 23

Rhyme Scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

Question 24

Enjambent

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 25

Stanza

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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Question 26

Free Verse

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 27

Blank Verse

Answer 27

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 28

Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Question 29

Couplet

Answer 29

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Question 30

Line Break

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The point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line.

Question 31

Illusion

Answer 31

A thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.

Question 32

Effect of First Person POV

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Point of view writing is the intimacy it creates between the reader and the narrator. By allowing the reader to experience the story through the eyes and emotions of a character, the narrative becomes more personal and relatable.

Question 33

Effect of Second Person POV

Answer 33

It forces the reader into the story, making them part of the action and complicit in events. This is hard to sustain over longer pieces of writing, which is one reason it is rarely used in narrative texts.

Question 34

Effect of Third Person POV

Answer 34

Third-person narratives may offer the reader a variety of character perspectives, furthering their chance to develop empathy. Stories told in third-person allow the reader to learn more about the world outside of the confines of a first-person perspective.