NOTES EXPLICIT

AND IMPLICIT
SIGNALS (LIKE
COHESIVE DEVICES)
USE BY THE WRITER
EXPLICIT
Means direct or
expressly state
.
For example:
John was so mad at her
mother for confiscating
his phone.
iMPLICIT
Means implied or
hinted.
For example:
John frown his face in front
of her mother and walk out,
he slammed the door of his
room the neighbors probably
hear it.
Cohesive devices
are words or phrases that show
the relationship between
paragraphs or selection of a
text or speech.
Examples:
1. The shirts look so expensive
but these are cheap.
2. I have a lot of books and
those really help me.
3. Andrea loves Matt and
Matt loves Andrea.
Therefore, they agreed to be
in a relationship.
Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around
in front of her, put a half Nelson about
his neck, and continued to drag him up
the street. When she got to her door, she
dragged the boy inside, down the hall,
and into a large kitchenette-furnished
room at the rear of the house. She
switched on the light and left the door
open.
Thank You M’am (Langston Hughes)
“ I think success has no rules,
but you can learn a lot from
failures.”
Jean Kerr
There was no dissuading him,
however, and at a quarter past
ten he close the attic door
behind him and went up the
narrow twisting chair.
The Night The Bed (James Thurber)
A few minutes later, Red Riding
Hood knocked on the door.  The
wolf jumped into bed and pulled
the covers over his nose.  "Who
is it?" he called in a cackly
voice.
Little Red Riding hood (Leanne Guenther)
Her romantic mind was like the tiny
boxes, one within the other, that
come from the puzzling East,
however many you discover there is
always one more; and her sweet
mocking mouth had one kiss on it
that Wendy could never get, though
there, it was perfectly conspicuous
in the right-hand corner.
Peter Pan (James Matthew Barrie)
His scales were every shade
of blue and green and purple,
with sparkling silver scales
among them. The other fish
were amazed at his beauty.
Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)
The first little pig was very lazy. He didn't
want to work at all and he built his house
out of straw. The second little pig worked
a little bit harder but he was somewhat
lazy too and he built his house out of
sticks.
Three Little Pigs (James Halliwell-Phillipps)
Direction: Determine whether the sentence is explicit signal or
implicit signal and write your answers on the space provided
before the number. Encircle the cohesive device/s in the sentence.

____________1. Lily is very happy because their team won

the competition last Saturday.
____________2. France yelled “ouch” while dancing on
the stage.
____________3. Shane can hear the sound of her stomach
but she is so happy sitting while waiting for Tom.
____________4. Jane was suffering from headache
because of the accident happened two days ago.
____________5. Atarah’s face was in crimson, you could
almost see the steam coming from her ears like a kettle
reaching the boiling point.
ASSIGNMENT

Direction:
On a ½ sheet of paper, construct 10
sentences with cohesive devices.
Five for explicit signals and five for
implicit signal.