Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Official SAT mapping?
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Craft and Structure → Text Structure and Purpose.
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: What is this topic's core focus?
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Identifying why a text places two entities, states, methods, or periods beside each other.
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Best working strategy?
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identify A, B, dimension, direction, and why the comparison matters
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Primary trap?
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mentioning both entities while misstating the dimension or direction
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: How does the target relate to the whole?
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comparison can clarify a distinction, challenge an assumption, demonstrate limitation, or emphasize change
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Content-paraphrase warning?
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Wrong-target warning?
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: Transition boundary?
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Comparison and Contrast: 5-6: 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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Comparison and Contrast: Five-part comparison check?
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Entity A, Entity B, dimension, similarity/difference, and rhetorical reason.
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Comparison and Contrast: Why might an author contrast a new finding with an accepted view?
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To show why the accepted view needs qualification or revision.
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Comparison and Contrast: False-comparison trap?
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It identifies the wrong entities, dimension, direction, or purpose.
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Comparison and Contrast: Can a comparison establish uniqueness?
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Yes, if the contrast shows a feature that distinguishes one case from relevant alternatives.
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Comparison and Contrast: Chapter 5 comparison vs Chapter 6?
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes comparison within one text; Chapter 6 connects two separate texts.
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