English Keystone Exam

Question 1

Purpose of Keystone Exam

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Author’s Purpose

Answer 2

• 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

Question 3

Purpose of Satire

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Purpose of Symbolism

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Purpose of simile/metaphor

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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.

Question 7

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

Question 8

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.

Question 9

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.

Question 10

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.

Question 11

Fiction vs Nonfiction

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirements

Answer 12

Clear
Complete
Accurate
Relevant
Specific

Question 13

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

Answer 13

2 TWO !!

Question 14

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

Answer 14

NOOoooOOooO

Question 15

What are the key elements of a constructed response?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

Answer 16

ONNNNEEEEE

Question 17

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

Answer 17

ANSWER THE PROMPT

Question 18

How to find the main idea

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

Connotation

Answer 19

• 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

Question 20

Denotation

Answer 20

• Dictionary definition
• More than one word

Question 21

Read ALL of the Answer Choices

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Answer the Question before you Read the Answers

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Absolutes

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Use context clues for vocabulary

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Read the question BEFORE you read the passage

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

Eliminate Answer Choices

Answer 28

Eliminate weak answers

Question 29

Skip the Question

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Satire

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Rhythm

Answer 31

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Question 32

Rhythm Scheme

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Enjambment

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Stanza

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Free Verse

Answer 35

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 36

Blank Verse

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Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 37

Sonnet

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Couplet

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Line Break

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Illusion

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Effect of first-person POV

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

Question 42

Effect of second-person POV

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Effect of third-person POV

Answer 43

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