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Hard Rhetorical Skills Drill

15 hard-difficulty ACT English questions on Rhetorical Skills. Each question is on its own page with a worked answer explanation, the underlying rule, and a quick study tip.

Hard English Rhetorical Skills

All 15 questions

  1. 1 Choosing the Best Transition The new bridge opened to traffic in March. Furthermore, commute times across the ri Hard
  2. 2 "Should the Writer Add..." Question The author is considering adding the following sentence: "The bridge was designed by an ar Hard
  3. 3 Question About the Paragraph's Purpose Which choice most effectively introduces a paragraph that goes on to describe three benefi Hard
  4. 4 Matching Tone The committee found the proposal to be totally bonkers and rejected it unanimously. Hard
  5. 5 Best Sentence to Achieve a Goal Which choice best supports the writer's claim that the bridge improved local business? Hard
  6. 6 Choosing the Best Transition The new bridge opened to traffic in March. Furthermore, commute times across the ri Hard
  7. 7 "Should the Writer Add..." Question The author is considering adding the following sentence: "The bridge was designed by an ar Hard
  8. 8 Question About the Paragraph's Purpose Which choice most effectively introduces a paragraph that goes on to describe three benefi Hard
  9. 9 Matching Tone The committee found the proposal to be totally bonkers and rejected it unanimously. Hard
  10. 10 Best Sentence to Achieve a Goal Which choice best supports the writer's claim that the bridge improved local business? Hard
  11. 11 Choosing the Best Transition The new bridge opened to traffic in March. Furthermore, commute times across the ri Hard
  12. 12 "Should the Writer Add..." Question The author is considering adding the following sentence: "The bridge was designed by an ar Hard
  13. 13 Question About the Paragraph's Purpose Which choice most effectively introduces a paragraph that goes on to describe three benefi Hard
  14. 14 Matching Tone The committee found the proposal to be totally bonkers and rejected it unanimously. Hard
  15. 15 Best Sentence to Achieve a Goal Which choice best supports the writer's claim that the bridge improved local business? Hard

How to use this drill

Open the questions one at a time. Read the prompt, decide on an answer before scrolling, then check the explanation. The point of a drill is not to "get the question right" — it's to internalize the rule so you can apply it cold under timed conditions on test day.

If you're missing more than a third of the questions in this set, drop down a difficulty tier and rebuild from there. If you're getting all of them quickly, jump up a tier and try a mixed drill across subtopics.

What "Hard" means here

Hard questions are designed to separate strong test-takers. They typically require multiple rules applied in sequence, or careful elimination among answers that all look plausible. Expect to see these appear later in real ACT sections; even strong test-takers miss a couple per test.

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