SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 18)

About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 18) 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 often true statements drawn from the notes that simply do not serve the stated goal, so read the goal with care.

Questions in This Drill

1. The student wants to define what a fjord is for a reader who has not met the term. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
2. The student wants to explain the difference between fresco and oil painting in the surface each is done on. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
3. The student wants to explain the chemical process by which a cyanotype image forms. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
4. The student wants to describe the aim that led builders to lower workers beneath the water in a diving bell. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
5. The student wants to summarize how lost-wax casting turns a wax model into a finished metal object. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?