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English Keystone Exam Flashcards

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Purpose of Keystone Exam

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  • State can evaluate the proficiency of students
  • Determine the quality of the school district
  • Graduation Requirement
  • Assesses the teacher
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Author’s Purpose

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  • Persuade, inform, or entertain
  • Attitude towards the topics they are writing a/b
  • Life experience can affect how they WHY they write
  • Is implicitly reviled throughout the story
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Purpose of Satire

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The purpose of satire. in literature is to both add elements of humor to a story, and also ridicule/critique a person, situation, or social belief system. An author may choose to utilize satire to critique society in an interesting, and funny way, entertaining the reader. Inspire social reform.

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Purpose of Symbolism

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Writers use symbolism to explain an idea or concept to their readers in a poetic manner without saying it outright. Something that is greater than itself.

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Purpose of simile/metaphor

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Create vivid imagery or draw connections between important aspects of a story. Characterization through comparing.

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Purpose of Imagery

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Engages the readers senses to draw them more deeply into the writing. Allows the reader to imagine what is happening in what they are reading, strengthening understanding.

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Purpose of Forreshadowing

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To give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. The author would include foreshadowing to allow the reader to reflect and connect the past to why things happen

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Purpose of Dialect

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Dialect helps writers bring the characters they have brought to life. Writer way uses dialects and accents that illustrate the character’s place of origin, cultural background, and/or social class helping with setting.

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Purpose of Personification

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Add a deeper meaning to elements that do not possess complex human attributes. Authors may chose to utilize personification because it can give life-likeness to a nonhuman element, and can help readers better connect to the story.

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Purpose of Flashback

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To recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to full in crucial back story. To aid character development.

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Fiction vs Nonfiction

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FICTION refers to literature created from the imagination
NONFICTION refers to literature based in fact. It is the broadest category of literature

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Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirements

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Clear
Complete
Accurate
Relevant
Specific

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How many minimum pieces of evidence do I need to include in each constructed response?

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2 TWO !!

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Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in constructed responses?

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NOOoooOOooO

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What are the key elements of a constructed response?

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  1. Thesis
  2. Context(1-2 sentences)
  3. Evidence #1
  4. Analysis #1(2-3 sentences)
  5. Evidence #2
  6. Analysis #2(2-3 sentences)
  7. Concluding sentence
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How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

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ONNNNEEEEE

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What is the MOST imoprtant thing about perfecting your approach to responding to constructed responses?

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ANSWER THE PROMPT

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How to find the main idea

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  • The key information that the author wants you to know after reading
  • Conflict or Fight
  • Take all of the supporting details and decide what they have in common
    1. Understand the Topic
    3. Pay attention to repeated ideas
    5. Reversal Transitions(However, Nonetheless, more or less, although…)
    6. Look to see if the main idea is explicitly or directly stated
    7. Read first and last sentence of each body paragraph
    8. Use Topic sentences as the main ideas of each paragraph to then find the main idea.
    9. Answer the question BEFORE looking at the answers
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Connotation

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  • The way culture flows around the world
  • Reveals tone/theme: How do the words the author uses make me feel?
  • Emotional meaning of a word
  • Subjective to a persons experience
  • Its ONE word
  • It is NOT JUST positive, negative, or neutral they can be more expressive
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Denotation

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  • Dictionary definition
  • More than one word
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Read ALL of the Answer Choices

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DEFINITION: Take your time to thoroughly read through all of the answer choices listed from the question above. No matter how long each answer is below, make sure you finish the mall, if needed add annotation
EXAMPLES: Read all of the answers available before reading the question given. Read the question, then reread the questions once more. If stuck highlight key words in the question/answers to see the compatibility.

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Answer the Question before you Read the Answers

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Read the passage, look at the question NOT the answers, answer the question in your head from the passage, and look at the answer choices/pick the best one.

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Absolutes

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When the possible answers to a question use absolutes, they are likely NOT correct because of their definitive nature.

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All of the Above

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A possible answer choice that indicates that ALL previously-listed answers are correct. These are often the correct answer b/c these answer choices are used sparsely.

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Check for root words, prefixes, suffixes, affixes, connotation,etc.

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Identify the definition of prefixes, suffixes, root words, affixes, connotation, etc. in order to help you conclude definitions of vocabulary words that you may not know.

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Use context clues for vocabulary

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Look for surrounding words and phrases in order to draw conclusions a/b unknown vocabulary words that might help you understand the passage.

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Read the question BEFORE you read the passage

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Before you start reading the passage, make sure you have read the question in full. Once you know what the question is asking for, you can focus your reading and read with purpose. For example f the question asks for the tone of the passage you can focus on adjectives that reveal the tone and identify whether its somber, joyful, dreary, etc.

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Eliminate Answer Choices

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Eliminate weak answers

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Skip the Question

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If you do not know the answer skip the question and come back to it BEFORE you read the next passage/group of questions

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Satire

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  • Making fun of things(human vices, weaknesses, or shortcomings)
  • Change
  • Comedy + Social Activism
  • Look for irony, sarcasm, and exaggeration
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Rhythm

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A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

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Rhythm Scheme

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

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Enjambment

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(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

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Stanza

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

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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Blank Verse

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Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

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Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically

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Couplet

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

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Line Break

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

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Illusion

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

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Effect of first-person POV

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Allows the reader to understand the story from the main character’s thoughts and feelings

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Effect of second-person POV

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Breaks the fourth wall by directly addressing the reader with the pronoun “you.”

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Effect of third-person POV

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Allows readers to glimpse into a character’s head, hear their inner thoughts, and understand the motivations of myriad different characters

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