Keystone Exam Flashcards
Purpose of Keystone Exam
Grad requirement, evaluate a student’s skills, assesses teacher’s ability to teach, funds the school
Author’s Purpose
Persuade, Inform, Entertain,
Satire
The purpose of satire is to create awareness and motivation for change. An author might choose to include this to entertain and thought-provoke. As well as express their opinions on sensitive issues.
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing provides an element of suspense and curiosity as to what will come from the element foreshadowed. Foreshadowing can increase narrative tension and allows for a sort of dramatic irony as the reader knows something the characters don’t
Dialect
Powerful tool that brings more life to a character and makes them unique, illustrating their origins, cultural background, or social class. Builds setting
Symbolism
The purpose of symbolism is to create meaning and emotion in the story by making one thing represent something else. Represents an idea or quality. Helps to reveal theme.
Imagery
The author uses imagery to connect to the personal aspects, experiences, or memories of the reader. It can enhance the readers rendition of the text by immersing them deeper by appealing to the senses
Flashback
Purpose to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory, to provide essential context to the plot or characters, to keep the reader engaged, to foreshadow and more
Simile/Metaphor
Enhance understanding by comparing unfamiliar ideas to familiar ones. The author adds depth to a text by making connections. Helps characterize
Personification
to make intimate objects relatable to the reader, helps the reader connect more with the story, emphasizes non-human characteristics
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Fiction is created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact.
Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirements
C - Clear and Complete
A - Accurate
R - Relevant
S - Specific
What is the minimum amount of evidence I need to include in each constructed response?
TWO!!!!!!
Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in constructed responses?
NAUR
What are the key elements of a constructed response?
- Thesis, 2. Context, 3. Evidence (1), 4. Analysis 1 (2 sentences), 5. Evidence (2), 6. Analysis 2 (2 sentences), 7. Concluding sentence (1 sentence).
How many paragraphs in a constructed response?
UNO
What is the most important thing about perfecting your approach to responding to constructed responses?
Answering the DANG prompt
Main idea
The key information that the author wants you to know after the reader finishes the text.
How to find the main idea
Take all the supporting details and find how its connected. Summarize paragraphs and find out what they have in common. Topic sentence/thesis sentence. “What is the author teaching me about this topic?”
Connotation
The way a word feels. About setting a tone, building a motif, used to propel word choice,can be more than just positive and negative, have personal connections to words that evoke a personal connotation, “How do the words in the passage make you feel?”
Denotation
dictionary definition of a word
Test Taking Strategy #1
Read the entire sentence of each answer:
Before picking your final answer, read through each answer thoroughly, assuring you’ve picked the right one.
Test Taking Strategy #2
Read the question at least TWO times and understand what the question is asking you:
To fully understand the question, you must read it multiple times to ensure you know the whole idea of what the question is asking you. By doing this, you will know what the question is asking and be able to answer it in your fullest ability.
Test Taking Strategy #3
Read the question before reading the text:
Common Sense;
Gives you a purpose and focus for reading
Test Taking Strategy #4
Answer the easy questions first:
Start with the easy questions first. These are questions you immediately know the answers to, or can answer in a short amount of time, confidently. Save the difficult ones for later, you can spend the remaining time on them.
Test Taking Strategy #5
Find the answer in your head before looking at the answer choices:
This test taking strategy revolves around reading the question and understanding the question first before looking at any answer options in a multiple-choice test;
You should read the question and answer it yourself;
Then look at the multiple-choice options and compare them to your initial answer;
You will tend to find your initial answer similar or matching one of the options.
Test Taking Strategy #6
Annotate the passage:
Highlight, write in the margins, circle key words, making notes, and mark important information in the passage;
Improve comprehension and facilitates quicker reference during question answering
Test Taking Strategy #7
Use context clues:
Using hints from the passage and other clues from the author, you can define difficult or challenging words
Test Taking Strategy #8
Eliminate answers you know are wrong:
Gives you a better shot of getting
Satire
Used to either entertain or persuade
Criticize something they don’t approve of
Rhythm
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Rhyme Scheme
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of a poem or verse
Enjambment
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
Stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Free Verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Blank Verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Couplet
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Line Break
the termination of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line
Illusion
a narrative technique, such as a dream, vision, or other device that misleads, confuses, or tricks a character
Effect of first-person POV
intimacy between narrator and reader
Effect of second-person POV
forces the reader into the story, making them part of the action and complicit in events.
Effect of third-person POV
offers the reader variety of character perspectives
