Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Official SAT mapping?
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Craft and Structure → Text Structure and Purpose.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: What is this topic's core focus?
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Identifying what an observable example, comparison, definition, quotation, description, qualification, or sequence accomplishes.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Content vs function?
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Best working strategy?
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name the choice, then state its most precise contribution to reader understanding
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Primary trap?
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naming a rhetorical device without explaining its function
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: How does the target relate to the whole?
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author choices illustrate, support, clarify, qualify, contrast, introduce, or organize ideas
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Why read before the target?
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Why read after the target?
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Main vs secondary function?
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Choose the role that best explains the target's contribution to the passage, not a merely incidental effect.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Unsupported-purpose warning?
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Content-paraphrase warning?
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Wrong-target warning?
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: One-text boundary?
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Transition boundary?
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: 5-9: Final self-check?
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: What matters more than naming a device?
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Explaining what the textual choice accomplishes in the passage.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: Why use a specific case after a broad pattern?
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Usually to illustrate or support that pattern, depending on the evidence relationship.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: What can ‘although’ introduce functionally?
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A qualification or concession that limits an earlier statement.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: Illustrates vs clarifies?
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Illustrates supplies an example; clarifies makes an idea more understandable or precise.
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Author's Rhetorical Choices: Observable-choice rule?
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Infer purpose from the text's actual language and structure, not a speculative hidden motive.
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