Reading past the surface: explicit and implicit ideas in a set text

What this note covers

1. What Unit 4 adds to the Unit 3 reading of a text
2. Explicit ideas: what the text says, and why they still matter
3. Implicit ideas: inference, gap and silence
4. Subtext in dialogue, gesture and the unfinished sentence
5. Testing an inference so that it counts as analysis
6. Sentence shapes that carry implicit analysis
7. Handling a topic that asks about implied meaning
8. How this is examined and what a top-band response shows

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