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Keystone Exam Flashcards

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Purpose of Keystone Exam

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  • 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 and district and determine funding
  • graduation requirement
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Authors Purpose

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  • 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
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Purpose of Satire

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Authors will use satire to criticise or ridicule some aspect of human behavior. This is often to promote change. Satire is a humorous way to diss something you dont like

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Purpose of Symbolism

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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 outright. It makes their story more complex and interesting. Also helps to develop theme

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Purpose of Simile/Metaphor

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Authors use similes and metaphors in their writing to help readers get a better understanding that visualization of the concepts being described by making a comparison

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Purpose of Imagery

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It allows readers to visualize what is happening and it engages their senses to deepen their understanding

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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. Also creates dramatic tension

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Purpose of Dialect

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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

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Purpose of Personification

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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

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Purpose of Flashback

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Recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. Gives reason for the actions the characters make, builds curiosity and motivations

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Fiction vs. Non-Fiction

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Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Non-fiction refers to literature based in fact and is the broadest category of literature

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Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirement

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Clear Complete Accurate Relevant Specific

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How many minimum pieces of evidence do I need to include in each Constructed Response?

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TWO

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Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in Constructed Response?

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NO

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What are the key elements of a constructed response?

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  1. thesis 2. context (1-2 sentences) 3. evidence #1 4. analysis for #1 (2-3 sentences) 5. evidence #2 6. analysis for #2 7. concluding sentence
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How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

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ONE

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

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ANSWER THE PROMPT

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Main Idea

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the key information that the author wants you to know after reading

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How to find main idea

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  • identify supporting details and think about what they all have in common
  • find the topic sentence and THEN find the supporting details to identify what the paragraphs have in common
  • pay attention to the idea/s that are repeated throughout the text
  • look for a sentence that explicitly states the main idea
  • answer the question first (find the main idea first in your head) THEN look at the answer choices
  • look for reversal transition words (nonetheless, however, although, more or less..)
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Connotation

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  • the feeling that a word evokes
  • can help reveal tone
  • how do the words in the story make me feel?
  • connotation is subjective
  • can use other words besides positive and negative
  • ONE WORD
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Denotation

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  • dictionary definition
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Test Taking Strategy; use connotation to answer vocabulary question

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consider the feeling that a vocabulary word gives you in order to determine the answer

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Test Taking Strategy; all of the above

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a question has the answer option of “all of the above”, it is most likely the correct answer

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Test Taking Strategy; answers with absolutes in them

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an answer has an absolute in it like “never” and “always” that ARE NOT the answer

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Test Taking Strategy; read the question before reading the passage

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reading the question first helps students access and use their prior knowledge as they construct meaning from a text

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Test Taking Strategy; read the entire answer

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the obvious answer is typically in the second half of the answer; could miss something if not ready fully

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Test Taking Strategy; skip the hard questions, and answer the ones you know first, then come back

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by moving on you can finish the rest of the test quickly and not stress yourself out about the amount you need to finish

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Test Taking Strategy; answer the question in your head before looking at the answers

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before looking at the answer choices, read the questions and formulate an answer in your head

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Test Taking Strategy; read every answer

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you might miss a better answer if you skip some

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Test Taking Strategy; context clues and prefix, affix, suffix

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words and phrases in a sentence, paragraph, and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word

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Rhythm

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movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like

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Rhyme Scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

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Enjambment

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

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Stanza

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a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation

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Free Verse

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an open form of poetry

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Blank Verse

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poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization

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Couplet

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a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning

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Line Break

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

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Illusion

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something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality

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Effect of First Person POV

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Effect of Second Person POV

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Effect of Third Person POV

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