SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 10)

About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 10) 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 present the study's findings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
2. The student wants to make and support a generalization about the link between a volcano's shape and how it erupts. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
3. The student wants to explain the difference between the two methods of preserving fish. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
4. The student wants to give an audience unfamiliar with the topic a sense of how the windmill spread across medieval Europe. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
5. The student wants to introduce the kiva to an audience unfamiliar with it and convey what kind of structure it is. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?