SAT Question 13f36b03: Answer & Explanation

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Jon Ching is a Los Angeles-based painter.
• He uses the term “flauna” to describe the plant-animal hybrids that he depicts in his surreal paintings.
• “Flauna” is a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna.”
• His painting Nectar depicts a parrot with leaves for feathers.
• His painting Primaveral depicts a snow leopard whose fur sprouts flowers.

Difficulty:Easy

The student wants to provide an explanation and example of “flauna.” Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

The term “flauna,” used by Los Angeles-based painter Jon Ching, is a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna.”

Jon Ching uses the term “flauna,” a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna,” to describe the subjects of his surreal paintings: plant-animal hybrids such as a parrot with leaves for feathers.

Jon Ching, who created Nectar, refers to the subjects of his paintings as “flauna.”

The subjects of Nectar and Primaveral are types of “flauna,” a term that the paintings’ creator, Jon Ching, uses when describing his surreal artworks.

SAT Question 13f36b03: Rhetorical Synthesis answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong