Keystone Exam Flashcards
Purpose of the Keystone exam
- So the state can see you absorb what you are learning/have learned
- To see how well your teacher has taught you
- To assess/reflect Neshaminy as a whole
- Graduation requirement
Author’s Purpose
- To create an attitude towards the writing/topics being discussed
- Hidden meaning behind WHY the authors wrote the passage
-Develops how the author feels about the story analyzing their life
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Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Purpose of Satire
- Authors will use satire to criticize or ridicule some aspect of human behavior. This is often promoted to change. Satire is a humerus way to diss something you don’t like.
Purpose of symbolism
- plays an important role in creating a certain mood, feeling, or emotion within a work
- authors use symbolism to explain an idea or concept to their readers in a poetic manner without saying it straight
- It makes the story for creative
Purpose of Simile/Metaphor
-Authors use similes and metaphors in their writing to help readers understand and visualize the concepts being described by the making a comparison
Purpose of Imagery
- It allows the readers to visualize what is happening and it engages their senses to deepen their comprehension
Purpose of foreshadowing
- Help to give an indication or hint of what is going to come later in the story
- Useful for creating suspense, curiosity, or a feeling of unease
Purpose of 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
- Makes characters seem real when readers are part of the action
- Helps to determine the social setting and physical/time period setting
Purpose of personification
- When the setting or an animal receives a lifelike characteristic that helps to reveal plot or detail
- Helps to visualize and bring readers into the story
Purpose of Flashbacks
- Recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact. It is the broadcast category of literature.
Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirements
Clear, Complete, Accurate, Relevant, Specific
How many minimum pieces of evidence do I need to include in each constructed response?
TWO!!!
Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in constructed responses?
No!
What are the key elements of a constructed response?
- Thesis 2. Context (1-2) sentences 3. First piece of Evidence 4. Analysis for first piece of evidence 5. Second piece of evidence 6. Analysis for second piece of evidence 7. Concluding sentence
How many paragraphs is a constructed response?
One
What is the most important thing about perfecting your approach to responding to constructed response?
Answer the Prompt.
Main Idea
- Key information that the author wants you to know
- All small events lead up to this
How to find a main idea
- Identify the supporting details and find what they have in common
Connotation
- the implied or associative meaning of a word
-feeling a word evokes
-slang
Denotation
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Rhythm
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Rhythm Scheme
the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
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.
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
establishes a sense of familiarity between reader and narrator, allowing the writer to subtly influence the reader by telling a story with a bias
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
allows readers to glimpse into a character’s head, hear their inner thoughts, and understand the motivations of myriad different characters
