SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 8)

About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 8) is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering Hard Rhetorical Synthesis. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

Hard Rhetorical Synthesis questions present a set of research notes and a specific writing goal, then ask you to choose the sentence that best accomplishes that goal using only the notes. The wrong answers are usually accurate statements that serve a different purpose than the one asked for, or that subtly misstate the notes. Match the rhetorical task exactly.

Questions in This Drill

1. The student wants to make and support a generalization about the relationship between beak shape and diet. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
2. The student wants to highlight a similarity between the two cathedrals. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
3. The student wants to introduce the restoration project to readers who already know the organ and to emphasize what the restoration achieved. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
4. The student wants to explain the process by which a water clock measures time. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
5. The student wants to use the notes to refute the common saying about lightning. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?