Rhetoric, Author's Purpose, and Author's Technique questions require you to consider rhetorical purpose.

Function questions do not ask you to consider the effect/result of a word, line, or paragraph.

Rhetoric refers to (choose all that apply):

Synthesis questions unlike the other question types focus mainly on putting information and ideas together into a bigger picture in order for you to acquire a deeper and broader understanding of a topic.

Synthesis questions may appear with any passage.

The question type that will appear with either paired passages or passages with one or more information graphics is:

Synthesis questions are of two main types (select which apply):

Making connections between topically related History/Social Studies or Science Passages =

Locating data in informational graphics and drawing conclusions from such graphics and integrating that with information and ideas from a passage/s

You'll find one or more informational graphics - tables, graphs, or charts accompanying one of the History/Social Studies passages and also one of the Science passages. There will be questions about those graphics as well. These questions are of three general kinds.

Synthesis questions are made up of many different question types that we have learned about. Some are straightforward, others are quite complex. To answer these questions (just like any other) you need to: