Keystone Exam Flashcards
Purpose of Keystone Exam
- The state can see if you have absorbed information you are supposed to know
- The state can see how well the teacher is doing an adequate job
- Reflect the district and determine funding
- Graduation requirement
Authors Purpose
- Attitude towards the writing/topics - Hidden meaning or reasoning for why the piece was written
- Think about authors life and how that may influence thoughts or opinions
- Persuade, inform, entertain
Purpose of Satire
Authors use satire to criticize or ridicule some aspect of human behavior. This is often to promote change. Satire is a humorous way to diss something you think needs to change.
Purpose of Symbolism
Symbolism plays an important role in creating a certain mood feeling or emotion. Authors use symbolism to explain an idea or concept to the reader in a poetic manner without saying it outright. Makes writing more complex and helps to reveal theme often through repetition.
Purpose of Simile/Metaphor
Authors use similes and metaphors in their writing to help readers get a better understanding that visualization and characterization of the concepts being described by making said comparisons.
Purpose of Imagery
Imagery allows readers to visualize what is happening and engages their senses to deepen comprehension of the events of the writing.
Purpose of Foreshadowing
Helps to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. Useful to creating dramatic tension, suspense, curiosity and unease.
Purpose of Dialect
Dialect helps writers bring their characters alive through expression and how they speak or what they say and why they say it. Creates a character’s own unique voice and helps them seem real to the readers. Also helps determine the setting to the reader.
Purpose of Personification
Used to visualize and bring the reader in the story, characterize through giving lifelike characteristics to non-human things, add detail and moves the story.
Purpose of Flashback
Flashback recounts events before the story’s sequence of the events to fill in backstory. Builds curiosity and explains the reasoning for the characters’ actions and motivations.
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact and is the broadest category or literature.
Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirement
Silly
Animals
Ruin
Crunchy
Cranberries
Clear Complete Accurate Relevant Specific
How many minimum pieces of evidence in each constructed response
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Do I need to include in text citations for evidence in constructed response
NAURRR
What are the key elements of a constructed response
(All blended) 1. Thesis 2. Context 1-2 sentences 3. First Evidence 4. Analysis 2-3 sentences 5. Evidence 2 6. Analysis 7. Concluding sentence
How many paragraphs
1
Most important thing for perfecting your approach to responding to a CR?
Answer prompt
Main Idea
The key information that the author wants you to know after you finish reading the text
How to find main idea
-Identify supporting details and what they have in common
- Summarize each paragraph
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Connotation
-Way the world feels
-What is author trying to imply
-How do the words propel the tone or theme
-Different roots to words
-Words appropriate for social situation
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Denotation
-Dictionary definition
Rhythm
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Rhyme Scheme
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Enjambent
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 point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line.
Illusion
A thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.
Effect of First Person POV
Point of view writing is the intimacy it creates between the reader and the narrator. By allowing the reader to experience the story through the eyes and emotions of a character, the narrative becomes more personal and relatable.
Effect of Second Person POV
It forces the reader into the story, making them part of the action and complicit in events. This is hard to sustain over longer pieces of writing, which is one reason it is rarely used in narrative texts.
Effect of Third Person POV
Third-person narratives may offer the reader a variety of character perspectives, furthering their chance to develop empathy. Stories told in third-person allow the reader to learn more about the world outside of the confines of a first-person perspective.
