Keystone Exam

Question 1

Purpose of keystone

Answer 1

-to evaluate the schools and the teachers in PA
-to evaluate your understanding as a student
-to be able to graduate-stats

Question 2

Authors Purpose

Question 3

Purpose of hyperbole

Answer 3

-to make an overstatement
-to emphasize a word, a character, a topic, etc. in a story

Question 4

Purpose of personification

Answer 4

-adds a deeper meaning to things that do not posses complex human attributes
-personification helps concertize abstract ideas like thoughts

Question 5

Purpose of similie/metaphor

Answer 5

-helps readers visualize and understand things being compared
-helps explain an idea by comparing it to something else

Question 6

Purpose of flashback

Answer 6

-provide background information/understand characters motives and add sympathy/information needed to drive the plot

Question 7

Purpose of Imagery

Answer 7

-helps reader connect to helps create the representation of ideas in minds of what readers read

Question 8

Purpose of symbolism

Answer 8

-meant to represent something else
-creating a certain mood feeling or emotion with in a work
-helps show the theme

Question 9

Purpose of foreshadowing

Answer 9

-foreshadowing is useful for suspense
-to give a hint on whats coming

Question 10

Purpose of dialect

Answer 10

-to reveal the characters traits
-to reveal the setting

Question 11

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Answer 11

-“fiction” referents to the literature
-“nonfiction”

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 Statement 2. Context (1-2 sentences) 3. Evidence 1 4. Analysis 1 (2-3 sentences) 5. Evidence 2

Question 16

How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

Answer 16

1 paragraph

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Answer the prompt

Question 18

Main Idea

Answer 18

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

Question 19

How to find the main idea

Question 20

Rhythm

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Enjambment

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Stanza

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Free Verse

Answer 24

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 25

Blank Verse

Answer 25

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 26

Sonnet

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Couplet

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Line Break

Answer 28

the point where a line of text ends and a new line starts

Question 29

Illusion

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Effect of first-person POV

Answer 30

intimacy it creates between the reader and the narrator

Question 31

Effect of second-person POV

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

Question 32

Effect of third-person POV

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may offer the reader a variety of character perspectives, furthering their chance to develop empathy