Keystone Exam

Question 1

Purpose of the Keystone exam

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Author’s Purpose

Answer 2

• 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
  PIE –>
  Persuade
  Inform
  Entertain

Question 3

Purpose of Satire

Answer 3

• 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.

Question 4

Purpose of symbolism

Answer 4

• 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

Question 5

Purpose of Simile/Metaphor

Answer 5

-Authors use similes and metaphors in their writing to help readers understand and visualize the concepts being described by the making a comparison

Question 6

Purpose of Imagery

Answer 6

• It allows the readers to visualize what is happening and it engages their senses to deepen their comprehension

Question 7

Purpose of foreshadowing

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

Purpose of Dialect

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

Purpose of personification

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

Purpose of Flashbacks

Answer 10

• Recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory

Question 11

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Answer 11

Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Nonfiction refers to literature based in fact. It is the broadcast category of literature.

Question 12

Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirements

Answer 12

Clear, Complete, Accurate, Relevant, Specific

Question 13

How many minimum pieces of evidence do 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

No!

Question 15

What are the key elements of a constructed response?

Answer 15

1. 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

Question 16

How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

Answer 16

One

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Answer the Prompt.

Question 18

Main Idea

Answer 18

• Key information that the author wants you to know
• All small events lead up to this

Question 19

How to find a main idea

Answer 19

• Identify the supporting details and find what they have in common

Question 20

Connotation

Answer 20

• the implied or associative meaning of a word
  -feeling a word evokes
  -slang

Question 21

Denotation

Answer 21

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Question 22

Rhythm

Answer 22

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Question 23

Rhythm Scheme

Answer 23

the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.

Question 24

Enjambment

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Stanza

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Free Verse

Answer 26

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 27

Sonnet

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Couplet

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Line Break

Answer 29

the point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line

Question 30

Illusion

Answer 30

a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.

Question 31

Effect of first-person POV

Answer 31

establishes a sense of familiarity between reader and narrator, allowing the writer to subtly influence the reader by telling a story with a bias

Question 32

Effect of second-person POV

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Effect of third-person POV

Answer 33

allows readers to glimpse into a character’s head, hear their inner thoughts, and understand the motivations of myriad different characters