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Keystoner Flashcards

1
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Acronym for Constructed Response rubric requirements

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Clear Complete Accurate Relevant Specific (Carrots Can’t Always Roast Savory)

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

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2!!!!

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Do I need to include in-text citations for my evidence in constructed responses?

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Nooo

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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 (2-3 sentences), 5. Evidence #2, 6. Analysis (2-3 sentences), 7. Conclusion sentence
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How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

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Uno

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

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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 you finish reading the text

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How to find the main idea:

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  • Take all of the supporting details and you decide what they have in common
  • Understand the topic of article, which will relate to the main idea
  • The thesis statement contains an explicit main idea.
  • Pay attention to repeated ideas
  • The last statement of a paragraph is its summary.
  • Look for reversal transitions at beginning of sentences (ig however, nonetheless, more or less, etc)
  • May be directly stated
  • What do all the topic sentences have in common?
  • Mrs. Lunney’s tip: Answer the question BEFORE looking at the answers
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Evaluate

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Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess.

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Analysis

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The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.

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Explicit

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.

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Connotation

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The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning.

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Irony

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Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.

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Inference

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A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.

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Tone

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The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself.

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Refutation

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Countering of anticipated arguments

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Juxtaposition

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Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast

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Rhetoric

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The art and study of effective writing and speech

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Diction

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Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone

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Clause

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A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate

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Phrase

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A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate

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Ethos

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Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience

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Pathos

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Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.

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Logos

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Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.

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Evidence

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Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument

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Reasons

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Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

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Comma Splice

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A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer has erroneously placed only a comma between two independent clauses, resulting in a failure to link the two according to grammatical convention.

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Claims

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Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument

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Claim of Value

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A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

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Fallacy

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Rationales for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound—and usually false.

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Claims of policy

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A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

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Claim of fact

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

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Fused sentence

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A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to link or separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunctions

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Loose sentence

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A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses

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Parallelism

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The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Periodic Sentence

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A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word

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Ambiguity

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The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

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Concession

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An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point.

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Connotation

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  • The emotional meaning of a word.
  • The context surrounding a word.
  • The way culture flows around a word.
  • Connotation helps reveal tone; authors choose their words intentionally.
  • Subjective, personal; rooted in experience
  • One word
  • Ask yourself: how do these words make me feel?
  • Not just positive, negative, or neutral… can be more expressive (ex. healthy, comfy, smart)
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Denotation

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  • Dictionary definition of a word
41
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TTS; read ALL answer choices

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  • Read ALL the answer choices before making a selection.
  • Take time to thoroughly read through all the answer choices listed from the question.
  • The terms in the question correlate with the terms in the answer.
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TTS; answer the question by yourself BEFORE viewing the options

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  • do that
  • you’re usually right
43
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TTS; abolutes

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  • “never”, “always”, etc
  • insinuates a definitive answer, which is often incorrect
  • true or false using absolutes are likely ALWAYS false
44
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TTS; all of the above

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  • “all of the above,” often the correct answer
45
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TTS; root words, prefixes, suffixes, affixes, connotations, etc

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  • identify the definitions of these prefixes, suffixes, and affixes. They will help you understand vocab and select the accurate answer
  • context clues!!!
46
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TTS; read the question BEFORE reading passage

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  • read questions in full
  • this gives you a purpose while reading
  • when you have a purpose while reading, which is to answer the pointed question, you build comprehension skills
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TTS; eliminate answer choices

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  • eliminate the answers you know are incorrect. This narrows down the options
  • skip questions you don’t know and come back to it
48
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Satire

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  • criticizes society
  • comedy, but social activism
  • satire comments on human vices, weaknesses, and shortcomings
  • about changing things and waking other people up to the need for change
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effect of 1st person POV

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  • enables the readers to get a look into a character’s mind (ie thoughts, feelings, motives, etc)
  • feels more personal, casual, and, in nonfiction, fallacious
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effect of 2nd person POV

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  • feels like you’re reading a manual (instructions)
  • the narrator is speaking to someone directly, could give the passage a more personal feel
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effect of 3rd person POV

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  • see the events of the plot in multiple perspectives
  • can read multiple minds, understand many characters
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rhymth

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  • an audible pattern of writing through things like repeated vowels, parallel sentences, etc
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rhyme scheme

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  • a reoccurring pattern of rhymes, the way something is formatted into rhymes
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stanza

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  • a paragraph/verse of a poem
  • a group of lines forming a “poem paragraph”
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free verse

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blank verse

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sonnet

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  • poem of 14 lines
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couplet

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  • a poem of two lines
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line break

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  • when a poem cuts off, makes white space
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illusion

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  • fake, you think it’s real but it’s not

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