Grade 10 · English
High school reading, writing, and SAT-style practice. Written in American English for students, parents, and teachers in the United States.
Open a card to see the answer. These are original practice items for US elementary students — not a state test copy.
Answer: credibility or character
A doctor’s expertise can be ethos.
Answer: emotion
A story about a child can be pathos.
Answer: logic and evidence
Data and cause-effect are logos.
Answer: is asked for effect, not a real answer
“How long must we wait?”
Answer: shaping language for who will read or hear it
A speech to the Senate ≠ a text to a friend.
Answer: draws a huge conclusion from too little evidence
One example is not “all Americans.”
Answer: can hammer a key phrase into memory
Think of a refrain.
Answer: Unemployment fell 2% after the program, according to BLS data.
Numbers + a source.
Answer: explain how the evidence supports it
Warrant / commentary is the “so what.”
Answer: a transcript or recording from 1963
It comes from the time.
Answer: using only the facts that help you
Good research faces inconvenient data.
Answer: a source and a clear population
“Most people” is not a statistic.
Answer: acceptable if the idea is not yours
Credit the thinker.
Answer: Jones (2022) found wait times fell 15%, which supports later start times.
Name the source and the link to the claim.
Answer: single stories — useful but limited
They illustrate; they rarely prove a nationwide claim.
Answer: better evidence or a clearer warrant
Stay on the argument.
Pick the next article in this topic — that is how a magazine issue is meant to be used.
