Identify each example as having either a directly stated main idea or an implied main idea. The author directly reveals the main idea to readers. Readers need to infer the main idea by using clues from the text and their own knowledge. The reader can clearly determine that every detail supports the main idea. The reader must examine every supporting detail to verify if it supports a common idea.

The author directly reveals the main idea to readers is a characteristic of a stated main idea.

Readers need to infer the main idea by using clues from the text and their own knowledge is a characteristic of an implied main idea.

The reader can clearly determine that every detail supports the main idea is a characteristic of a stated main idea.

The reader must examine every supporting detail to verify if it supports a common idea is a characteristic of an implied main idea.

Explanation:

The main difference between a stated and an implied main idea is how directly and clearly it is exposed to the reader, The stated main ideas use direct vocabulary and describe something as it is, then provides the support through other sentences, while an implied main idea uses suggestive vocabulary so it provides a general idea to the reader but still they have to figure it out.

answer: a

explanation:

read the following excerpt from “greece” by oscar wilde.

the sea was sapphire [colored], and the sky

burned like a heated opal through the air;

we hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair

for the blue lands that to the eastward lie.

which words does the poet include to the reader visualize the scene?

“the sea was sapphire”

“through the air”

“was blowing fair”

“to the eastward lie”