1) authors rarely state the central idea in narrative nonfiction. how can a reader find the central idea when the author doesn’t state it explicitly? to find the central idea, you look for outside resources about the text and try to determine it through their analysis. to find the central idea, you look at the details in the text: what characters say and do, the events that occur, important challenges or conflicts represented, and the setting. then you think about how these details work together to build and convey a big idea or message to find the central idea, you look at the first paragraph of the story and make a guess. none of these. 2) suppose you are writing an analysis of a literary text. in the text you find a piece of evidence that could support your thesis. however, the evidence supports your thesis implicitly, not explicitly. what must you do in order to use the evidence effectively in your analysis? rephrase the implicit evidence so that it becomes explicit. search for a more explicit piece of evidence on the same point. make an inference to connect the evidence to your thesis. do research to find evidence outside your literary text. 3) when reading "nameless, tennessee", we know that we are looking for a central idea and not a theme because its a short story. its a non-fiction text. there are only a few characters. all of these.