Reading Passage Literal Questions

Questions that test whether you understood what the passage was saying on a literal, concrete level.

• Reading Comprehension

• Inference

• Identifying and Interpreting Figurative Langauge

• Literary Techniques

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The following example is what type of question?
Which of the following is true of Mrs. Ramsay’s attitude toward Charles Tansley throughout the passage?
(A) It changes from bemused tolerance to passionate longing.
(B) It vacillates between liking and disliking.
(C) It becomes increasingly mocking.
(D) It changes suddenly from contempt to pity.
(E) It alternates between admiration and indifference.

• Literary Technique
• Identifying and Interpreting Figurative Language
• Structure
• Reading Comprehension

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

These questions ask why the author uses particular words, phrases, or structures. Essentially, what purpose do such choices serve in a literary sense? What effect is created? These questions often include words like “serves chiefly to,” “effect,” “evoke,” and “in order to.”

• Grammar

• Structure

• Literary Technique

• Character Analysis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The following example is what type of question?
According to the passage, why does Satan not enter the garden by the gate? (A) The gate is protected by God.
(B) The gate is hidden by overgrown shrubbery.
(C) He is too large to fit through the gate.
(D) He is contemptuous of proper procedures.
(E) He fears an encounter with other creatures.

• Literary Technique

• Character Analysis

• Overall Passage Question

• Structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

The majority of the reading questions will be about the information in the passage and not about an infographic.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

The SAT Reading tests your ability to find factual information in a passage but also your capacity to understand how arguments are constructed.

• False

• True

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Literal comprehension questions:

• questions ask you to identify what the passage suggests or indirectly states.

• ask you to identify what the passage directly states.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Supporting evidence questions:

• Ask you to identify the rhetorical role (e.g., support, refute, criticize) that various information plays within the passage.

• Both literal comprehension and inference questions will frequently be followed by which require you to identify the specific lines in the passage that provide the answer to the previous question.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

You will have to answer questions about ____ different types of passages.

• 5

• 6

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Select the passage types that you will find on the SAT Reading section:

• Classic / Contemporary Fiction

• Social science (social studies)

• Historical documents

• Natural Sciences

• Economics