GED Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA): Reading
Questions And Answers
1. inference: evidence used to guide the reader into drawing conclusions; applying logic and reasoning skills to evidence to
draw conclusions
2. main idea: the most important point the writer is making
3. supporting details: include facts, examples, descriptions, and specific pieces of information that support the main idea
4. restating ideas: putting the idea in your own words
5. summarizing: including only the most important facts and ideas to explain the main idea of a passage or piece
6. application of ideas/applying ideas: using information you already know in a new but similar situation
7. cause and effect: when one idea or event influences another; how one thing made another thing happen
8. compare and contrast: pointing out what is similar and what is different about ideas or things
9. conclusion: taking pieces of information and putting them together to figure out something that the writer has not directly
stated
10. generalization: a broad statement about a group of people, objects, or things or about a type of event
11. connotation: the meaning suggested by the word (ie. dog, mutt, man's best friend- each connotes a specific
positive or negative feeling)
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Questions And Answers
1. inference: evidence used to guide the reader into drawing conclusions; applying logic and reasoning skills to evidence to
draw conclusions
2. main idea: the most important point the writer is making
3. supporting details: include facts, examples, descriptions, and specific pieces of information that support the main idea
4. restating ideas: putting the idea in your own words
5. summarizing: including only the most important facts and ideas to explain the main idea of a passage or piece
6. application of ideas/applying ideas: using information you already know in a new but similar situation
7. cause and effect: when one idea or event influences another; how one thing made another thing happen
8. compare and contrast: pointing out what is similar and what is different about ideas or things
9. conclusion: taking pieces of information and putting them together to figure out something that the writer has not directly
stated
10. generalization: a broad statement about a group of people, objects, or things or about a type of event
11. connotation: the meaning suggested by the word (ie. dog, mutt, man's best friend- each connotes a specific
positive or negative feeling)
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