Rhetoric & Usage
Rhetoric
The new SAT differs from the old SAT in one very important way: grammar questions are embedded within passages and you need to read the entire passage in order to answer some of the questions (this format is exactly the same as the Writing section in ACT, so if you have done any prep work for that exam, you are ahead of the curve here).
There are a few different types of rhetoric questions. We put them all together for two reasons:
Usage
A small percent of Writing and Language questions are usage questions. These questions test a combination of vocabulary (including in context vocabulary, and the nuances of how very similar words are used) and particular (often idiosyncratic) rules about how particular words are used in particular situations.