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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 9) 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
- The student wants to convey the aim of the research team's study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- The student wants to compare the two ways of building terraces. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- The student wants to write an engaging opening sentence for a narrative about the weaver and her workshop. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- The student wants to explain a drawback of sundials specifically for travelers crossing into different regions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- The student wants to include a quotation that challenges the long-held assumption about how heavy stone loads were moved. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?