Keystone

Question 1

Purpose of Keystone

Answer 1

-so the state can evaluate how proficient you are
- tells school districts where to improve their teaching
- graduation requirement!!!
-see how good the teacher is!!!!!!

Question 2

Author’s purpose

Answer 2

-doesn’t come out and say it
-implecity revealed
-pie method (persuasion, inform,entertain)
-author’s attitude towards the topics they are writing about
-author’s life experience can affect why they write

Question 3

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

symbolism

Answer 4

writers use symbolism to explain an idea or concept to their readers in a poetic manner without saying it outright.

Question 5

simile/metaphor

Answer 5

create vivid imarey or drwas connect between importn aspects of a story and adds to characrisation through comparung

Question 6

imagery

Answer 6

imagery engages the reader’s senses to draw them more deeply into the writing. allows the reader to imagine what is happening in what they are reading, strengthening their understanding

Question 7

foreshadowing

Answer 7

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

Question 8

dialect

Answer 8

Dialect helps writers bring the characters they have brought to life. writers may use dialects and accents that illustrate the characters place of origin,culture background, and /or social class helping setting

Question 9

personification

Answer 9

The purpose to personification is to add a deeper meaning to elements that do not possess complex human attributes and authors may choose to utilize personification because to can give life likeness to a nonhuman elements and can help readers better connect to the story

Question 10

flashback

Answer 10

To recount events that happens before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory and helps aid character development

Question 11

acronym for constructed response rubric requirements

Answer 11

clear
complete
accurate
relevant
specific

Question 12

how many pieces of evidence do i need to include in each response

Answer 12

2 TWO!!!!

Question 13

do i need to include in text citaion

Answer 13

NOOOOO

Question 14

what are the elements of a constructed response

Answer 14

thesis
context (1-2 sentences)
evidence 1
analysis 1(2-3 sentences)
evidence 2
analysis 2 (2-3 sentences)
concluding sentence

Question 15

how many paragraphs is a constructed response

Answer 15

one paragraph

Question 16

what is the MOST important thing about perfecting your approach to responding to constructed response

Answer 16

ANSWER THE PROMPT

Question 17

how to find the main idea

Answer 17

-take all supporting details and decide what they have in common
-Read the first and last sentences of the paragraph
-Pay attention to any idea that is repeated in different ways.
-Look for a sentence that states the main idea
-understand the topic of the article which will relate to the topic
-pay attention to repeated ideas
.Look for reversal transitions at the beginning of sentences
-use topic sentences as the main ideas of each paragraph to then find the main idea
-answer the question BEFORE looking at the answers

Question 18

main idea

Answer 18

the key information that the author wants you to know after reading

Question 19

connotation

Answer 19

The emotional meaning of a word
how a word feels
subjective to a person’s experience
can help to reveal tone
-one word
-not dictionary definition
-how do these words the author uses make me feel
-not just positive or negative and neutral they can be more expressive

Question 20

denotation

Question 21

read all the answer choices

Answer 21

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 them all, if needed add annotations.

Question 22

Answer the Question before you Read the Answers

Answer 22

before looking at the answer choices try to come up with an answer and then find which answer matches the one you already came up with

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

Answer 24

“All of the above” is a possible answer choice that indicates that all previously-listed answers are correct. These are often the correct answer because these answer choices are used sparsely.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Identify the definitions 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 about unknown vocabulary words that might help you understand the passage.

Question 27

Read the Question Before Reading 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 a purpose. For example if 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

cross out any choices that you completely are known are false which increases your chances of getting the answer correct

Question 29

Skip the question

Answer 29

if you don’t know the answer to a question, skip it and come back in order to take time to think about the answer

Question 30

rhythm

Answer 30

a regular series of sounds or movements.

Question 31

rhythm scheme

Answer 31

a poet’s deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza.

Question 32

enjambment

Answer 32

a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.

Question 33

stanza

Answer 33

a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 34

free verse

Answer 34

the name given to poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.

Question 35

blank verse

Answer 35

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 36

couplet

Answer 36

two lines of verse that follow in order and form a unit

Question 37

line break

Answer 37

the point where a line of text ends and a new line starts

Question 38

illusion

Answer 38

a misleading image presented to the vision

Question 39

effect of first person POV

Answer 39

the intimacy it creates between the reader and the narrator

Question 40

effect of second person POV

Answer 40

affects narrative elements such as tone, theme, and tension, but, most importantly, it affects the relationship between narrator, reader, and protagonist.

Question 41

effect of third person POV

Answer 41

is used to keep distance between the writer and reader.