Keystone exam Flashcards

Question

Use context clues for vocabulary

Answer 1

Look for surrounding words and phrases in order to draw conclusions about unknown vocabulary words that might help you understand the passage.

Answer 2

Before you start reading the passage, make sure you have read the question in full. Once you know what the question is asking for, you can focus your reading and read with a purpose. For example if the question asks for the tone of the passage you can focus on adjectives that reveal the tone and identify whether its somber, joyful, dreary, etc.

Answer 3

cross out ones that are weak.

Answer 4

If you come across a question where all the answers are right and it baffles you skip it girly. You can come back to it later and try your best!

Answer 5

Rhythm paces the reader, emphasizes points and ideas, and creates mood. Most importantly, it makes writing easier to access and understand. By becoming aware of rhythm and its impact on the reader, writers can control their writing to become more readable and best emphasize the points they want to make.

Answer 6

Rhyme scheme is like how a beat is for music. So, songs can be looked at as poems. When a songs has lyrics that rhymes, it's easier to remember, and also, more enjoyable. Rhyme scheme moves the poem smoothly and adds substance to the words.

Answer 7

Enjambment, from the French meaning “a striding over,” is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly and swiftly—without interruption—to the next line of the poem.

Answer 8

Put simply, a stanza is a unit of lines in poetry. Just like we use paragraphs in prose, and verses in songs, stanzas are units that give a poem structure. They guide the reader from one idea to the next. There are no rules about how many stanzas are in a poem.

Answer 9

Free verse is poetry not dictated by an established form or meter and often influenced by the rhythms of speech. The following definition of the term free verse is reprinted from A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch. A poetry of organic rhythms, of deliberate irregularity, improvisatory delight.

Answer 10

Blank verse is similar to normal speaking patterns in English. It creates a formal, rhythmic pattern that lends musicality to the spoken words. As a result, blank verse often captures the attention of readers and listeners when a character is going to reveal important information.

Answer 11

The sonnet is one of the most famous forms in English poetry. A poetic form is a type of poem: each form has its own “rules” and is associated with particular themes. Sonnets are associated with desire: for centuries poets have used the frame of the sonnet to explore the complicated human experience of romantic love.

Answer 12

One of the defining characteristics of a couplet is that it contains a complete idea within the two lines. Each couplet should be able to stand alone if part of a larger poem and still make sense. By distilling the main ideas of the poem into these brief two-line units, the poet creates more of an impact with the form.

Answer 13

In typography, line breaks refer to the deliberate division of text into lines within a given space, like a paragraph or text block. These breaks dictate how words and phrases are distributed across lines, significantly influencing the visual presentation and readability of written content.

Answer 14

When applied to literature, an illusion can be a narrative technique, such as a dream, vision, or other device that misleads, confuses, or tricks a character. However, illusion also refers to the process of reading that leads to immersion, when the reader experiences the narrative as if it were real.

Answer 15

This point of view allows the reader to understand the story from the main character's thoughts and feelings. This creates an intense emotional connection between the character and the reader, because they are influenced by this character's perspective. Remember: all narrators are biased to some extent.

Answer 16

With second-person point of view, the writer addresses the reader using the pronoun "you". 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.

Answer 17

Instead of reading a self-centered story, 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.