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Keystone Exam Flashcards

Practice for keystones!!

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Purpose of Keystone Exam

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  • So the state can see you are absorbing what you are learning/have learned
  • To see how well your teacher has taught you
  • Assess the school’s quality + funding
  • Graduation requirement
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Author’s Purpose

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  • Shows their attitude towards their topic
  • Hidden meaning behind why they wrote the passage
  • Author’s personal events can influence their purpose
  • PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain)
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Purpose of Personification

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  • Helps to characterize
  • Supports the plot
  • Reveals plot and details
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Purpose of Simile/Metaphor

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  • Help readers get a better understanding and visualization of the concepts being described by making a comparison
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Purpose of Flashback

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  • Recounts events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in the crucial backstory
  • Builds on curiosity
  • Gives important info about the character
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Purpose of Imagery

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  • Allows readers to visualize what is happening and It engages their sense to deepen their comprehension
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Purpose of Symbolism

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  • 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 outright
  • Makes the story more interesting
  • Helps to reveal the theme
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Purpose of Foreshadowing

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  • Helps to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story
  • Useful for creating suspense, curiosity, or a feeling of unease
  • Dramatic tension
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Purpose of Dialect

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  • Helps writers bring their characters alive through expression & 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
  • Can determine the setting
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Purpose of Satire

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  • To criticize or ridicule some aspect of human behavior
  • Promotes change
  • Humerus way to diss something one doesn’t like
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Fiction vs. Nonfiction

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Fiction = literature created from the imagination
Nonfiction = literature based off fact; broadest category of literature

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Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirements

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Clear, complete, accurate, relevant, specific (CCARS)

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How many minimum pieces of evidence do I need to include in each constructed response

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2- TWO!!!!

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Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in constructed responses? (no author or page number)

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NAURRRRR

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What are the key elements of a constructed response?

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  1. Thesis statement
  2. Context (2-3 sentences)
  3. Evidence #1
  4. Analysis #1 (2-3 sent.)
  5. Evidence #2
  6. Analysis #2 (2-3 sent.)
  7. Conclusion Statement
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How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

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1- ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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ANSWER ALL PARTS OF THE PROMPT.

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Main Idea

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What details add up to; the key information author wants the reader to know after reading (typically is one sentence).

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How to FIND the main idea

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-Identify the commonality between all of the supporting details

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Connotation

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-The way a word feels; the context around it
- Words’ denotations may be the same, but they can feel different
- Helps reveal tone & how it supports the theme
- Words may have neutral, positive, or negative connotations, but they may also be personal or more fitting

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Denotation

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  • Dictionary definition
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Test Taking Strat: Using connotation to answer vocabulary questions

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Consider the feeling that a vocab word gives you in order to determine the answer.

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Test Taking Strat: All of the Above

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If an answer has the answer option of “all of the above”, it is most likely to be the correct answer.

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Test Taking Strat: Beware of answers with absolutes

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Answer choices with absolute words, such as “never” and “always” are typically not the answer.

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Test Taking Strat: Read the entire answer

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Obvious answers are usually in the second half of the sentence; sometimes there are distractive answers

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Test Taking Strat: Skip hard questions, answer the ones you know first then go back to it

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If you are stuck on a question, move onto the next one instead of dwelling on the one that you cannot get.

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Test Taking Strat: Read the question before reading the passage

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Assists in helping the reader get an idea of the structure of the text & gives them some context; encourages the transfer of knowledge & fosters engagement. Reading with a purpose helps you connect and understand a passage.

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Test Taking Strat: Answer the question in your head before looking at the answers

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Before looking at the answer choices, use your own thoughts to formulate an answer because if you think of an answer and it is there as a choice, then it will most likely be the answer.

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Test Taking Strat: Read every answer

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You may miss a better answer choice if you do not read all the answers.

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Test Taking Strat: Context clues

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Words or phrases in a sentence or text that help to reason out the meaning of unfamiliar words; you should also notice prefixes, suffixes, and affixes

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Rhythm

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The beat & pace of a poem

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Rhyme Scheme

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Pattern of rhymes that typically shows up at the end of a line or verse

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a sentence/clause across a line break; incomplete syntax where a sentence runs into the next without punctuation

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Stanza

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A group of two or more lines combined into a unit

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Free verse

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Open poetry without rhymes

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Blank verse

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Open poetry using iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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14-line iambic pentameter, thematic organization, & multiple rhyme schemes

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Couplet

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2 lines of verse that follow one another to form a singular thought

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Line Break

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Termination of one line & the beginning of a new line; serves to help create feeling of continuous movement

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Illusion

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A false belief; to make someone believe that a something is happening/a character will do something, only for them to not

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Effect of first-person POV

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Creates instant intimacy + an emotional bond with the reader

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Effect of second-person POV

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Allows the reader to take part in the events of the story

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Effect of third-person POV

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Allows the reader to be aware of the emotions and actions of multiple characters, making way for greater insight and creating distance between the reader & the story

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