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Explicit detail
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Information directly stated in the passage or preserved in a close paraphrase.
Reading & WritingChapter 1: Central Ideas and Details
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Explicitly Stated Details Flashcards
Twenty concise recall cards for Topic 1-3: Explicitly Stated Details.
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Explicit vs inferred
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Explicit is directly available; inferred is a logical conclusion built from stated information.
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Search target
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The person, object, time, cause, result, or condition named in the question stem.
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Why return to the passage?
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Exact relationships are easier to verify in the text than from memory.
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Paraphrase rule
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Wording may change, but actor, action, cause, sequence, quantity, and scope must remain intact.
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Nearby-detail trap
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A true sentence near the target answers a different question.
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Reversed-cause trap
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The answer preserves events but swaps which one caused the other.
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Reversed-sequence trap
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The choice reports the right events in the wrong order.
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Actor swap
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An action performed by one person or group is assigned to another.
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Scope shift
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A statement about some cases becomes a statement about every case.
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Pronoun check
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Resolve what each pronoun refers to before matching a detail.
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Contrast-word check
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But, rather, and instead can reverse the direction of a nearby statement.
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One-sentence proof
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You should be able to point to a sentence that directly supports the answer.
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Probably test
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If the explanation requires ‘probably’ or ‘must have,’ it may be an inference rather than a stated detail.
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Question-target discipline
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Match the exact requested detail before judging whether a choice is generally true.
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Numbers and units
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Verify both the quantity and what it measures; familiar numbers can be attached to the wrong noun.
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Negative stem
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For ‘does not’ questions, mark the negative word and test all four choices carefully.
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Direct-result detail
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An outcome that the passage explicitly connects to an action or condition.
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Outside-fact trap
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A fact may be accurate in the world but absent from this text.
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Final detail audit
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Locate, paraphrase, and compare every relationship before selecting.
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