English Keystones

Question 1

Purpose of Keystones

Answer 1

Graduation requirement

To assess a student’s skills in a subject

Teachers ability/How well they teach

Gives the school funding

Question 2

Purpose of Satire

Answer 2

The purpose of satire is to create awareness and motivation or change
An author might choose to include this to entertain and thought-provoke. As well as express their opinions on sensitive issues

Question 3

Purpose of Foreshadowing

Answer 3

Foreshadowing provides an element of uspense and curiosity as to what will come form the element foreshadowed. Foreshadowing can increase narrative tension and allows for a sort of dramatic irony as the reader knows something the character doesn’t.

Question 4

Purpose of Dialect

Answer 4

Powerful tool that brings more life to a chacater and make them unique, illustrates their origins cultural background or social class.

Question 5

Purpose of Symbolism

Answer 5

the purpose of symbolism is to create meaning and emotions in the story by making one thing represent something else. Symbolism is used to represent an idea or quality.

Question 6

Purpose of Imagery

Answer 6

the author uses imagery to connect to the personal aspects, experiences, or memories of the reader. It can enhance the readers’ rendtiion of the text by immersing them. Deeper meaning by appealing to their senses.

Question 7

Purpose of Flashback

Answer 7

Purpose is to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. To provide essential ceontext to the plot or characters, to keep the reader engaged, to foreshadow and more

Question 8

Purpose of Simile/Metaphor

Answer 8

To enhance undetstaing by comparing unfimilar ideas to a familiar one. To add depth to a text by making connections. Helps to characterize.

Question 9

Purpose of Personification

Answer 9

to make animate objects related to the reader, helps the reader connect more with the story, emphasizes non0human characteristics

Question 10

Author’s Purpose

Answer 10

Persuade, inform, or entertain

Question 11

Fiction

Answer 11

Refers to literature created from the imagination

Question 12

Nonfiction

Answer 12

Refers to literature based on fact

Question 13

Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirements

Answer 13

CCARS - Clear, Complete, Accurate, Relevant, Specific

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Two

Question 15

Do I need to include citations

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What are the key elements of a constructed response

Answer 16

Thesis, context (1-2 sentences), evidence, analysis (1-2 sentences), context (1-2 sentences), evidence, analysis (1-2 sentences), conclusion

Question 17

How many paragraphs is a constructed response

Answer 17

One

Question 18

What is the most important thing about perfecting your approach to responding to a constructed response

Answer 18

Answer the Prompt

Question 19

Main Idea

Answer 19

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

Question 20

How to find the Main Idea

Answer 20

You take all of the supporting details and find out how they are connected

Question 21

Connotation

Answer 21

Cultural association that a word has, can be used to propel word choice, can be used to set tone, and can be more than just positive and negative. Ask yourself, “How do the word of the passage make me feel?”

Question 22

Denotation

Answer 22

The direct understanding of a word; the dictionary definition of a word.

Question 23

Test-Taking Strategy: Read the Question Before Reading the Text

Answer 23

Read the question first so you know what to look for in the passage

Question 24

Rhythm

Answer 24

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Question 25

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Enjambment

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Stanza

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Free Verse

Answer 28

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 29

Blank Verse

Answer 29

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

Question 30

Sonnet

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Couplet

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Line Break

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Illusion

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Effect of first-person POV

Answer 34

Creates a connection between the writer and the reader

Question 35

Effect of second-person POV

Answer 35

forces the reader into the story, making them part of the action and complicit in events

Question 36

Effect of third-person POV