Keystone Exam

Question 1

Purpose of Keystone Exam

Answer 1

Grad requirement, evaluate a student’s skills, assesses teacher’s ability to teach, funds the school

Question 2

Author’s Purpose

Answer 2

Persuade, Inform, Entertain,

Question 3

Satire

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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.

Question 4

Foreshadowing

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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

Question 5

Dialect

Answer 5

Powerful tool that brings more life to a character and makes them unique, illustrating their origins, cultural background, or social class. Builds setting

Question 6

Symbolism

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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.

Question 7

Imagery

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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

Question 8

Flashback

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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

Question 9

Simile/Metaphor

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Enhance understanding by comparing unfamiliar ideas to familiar ones. The author adds depth to a text by making connections. Helps characterize

Question 10

Personification

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to make intimate objects relatable to the reader, helps the reader connect more with the story, emphasizes non-human characteristics

Question 11

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

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Fiction is created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact.

Question 12

Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirements

Answer 12

C - Clear and Complete
A - Accurate
R - Relevant
S - Specific

Question 13

What is the minimum amount of evidence I need to include in each constructed response?

Answer 13

TWO!!!!!!

Question 14

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

Answer 14

NAUR

Question 15

What are the key elements of a constructed response?

Answer 15

1. Thesis, 2. Context, 3. Evidence (1), 4. Analysis 1 (2 sentences), 5. Evidence (2), 6. Analysis 2 (2 sentences), 7. Concluding sentence (1 sentence).

Question 16

How many paragraphs in a constructed response?

Answer 16

UNO

Question 17

What is the most important thing about perfecting your approach to responding to constructed responses?

Answer 17

Answering the DANG prompt

Question 18

Main idea

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The key information that the author wants you to know after the reader finishes the text.

Question 19

How to find the main idea

Answer 19

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?”

Question 20

Connotation

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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?”

Question 21

Denotation

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dictionary definition of a word

Question 22

Test Taking Strategy #1

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Read the entire sentence of each answer:
Before picking your final answer, read through each answer thoroughly, assuring you’ve picked the right one.

Question 23

Test Taking Strategy #2

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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.

Question 24

Test Taking Strategy #3

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Read the question before reading the text:
Common Sense;
Gives you a purpose and focus for reading

Question 25

Test Taking Strategy #4

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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.

Question 26

Test Taking Strategy #5

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

Test Taking Strategy #6

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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

Question 28

Test Taking Strategy #7

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Use context clues:
Using hints from the passage and other clues from the author, you can define difficult or challenging words

Question 29

Test Taking Strategy #8

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Eliminate answers you know are wrong:
Gives you a better shot of getting

Question 30

Satire

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Used to either entertain or persuade
Criticize something they don’t approve of

Question 31

Rhythm

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A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Question 32

Rhyme Scheme

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

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Enjambment

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 34

Stanza

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

Question 35

Free Verse

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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

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

Question 38

Couplet

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

Question 39

Line Break

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the termination of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line

Question 40

Illusion

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a narrative technique, such as a dream, vision, or other device that misleads, confuses, or tricks a character

Question 41

Effect of first-person POV

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intimacy between narrator and reader

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Effect of second-person POV

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

Question 43

Effect of third-person POV

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offers the reader variety of character perspectives