Begin to Notice Rhetoric

Rhetorical skills are the second section. The key to maxing out your score on the Rhetoric section is to notice it in your everyday life. First, you need to understand the exam, though. The Rhetorical skills on the exam cover five broad categories:

• Tone: The attitude of the author on the subject of the piece.
• Cohesion: The coherence of paragraphs, sentences, and phrases.
• Purpose: Understand why a text exists.
• Formality: Determine the style of the text.
• Congruence: Determine if a sentence fits.
• Transitions: How to connect different thoughts together.

Rhetoric is trickier than grammar. Grammar has a set of clear rules to memorize. Rhetoric, while it does have some objective and distinctive traits, usually relies more on inferences and experience to understand.

Others, like cohesion or congruence, require that you understand more of the nuance of writing. That only comes with focused reading. To prepare for the SAT English, you will need to read texts (assigned or for pleasure) and focus on identifying where each of the tested parts of rhetoric come into play.

Some readings that will show the distinct parts of rhetoric are speeches and essays. If you have the chance, read some of those texts, and identify how the author uses each of the different parts of rhetoric.

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