TRUE OR FALSE?

• Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write T if you think the
statement is TRUE and write F if you think the statement is FALSE. Write
your answers on your paper.
• 1. Explicit information is written in the text.
• 2. Implicit information is NOT written in the text.
• 3. When something is implicit then the reader can go back and find the
information directly in the story.
• 4. Explicit information is something I know is happening.
• 5. Implicit information is something I think is happening.
Directions: Read the given text and answer the following activity.

“Tough it up man. It’s just a little bruise. We gonna get you home now.” Andre said. His voice alternating
between terror and toughness. He and Leslie pulled Sampson up from the ground. “Can you walk, man?”
Sampson put one foot down, then tried the other. He cringed, cried out, then slumped back against his
brother. “I can’t,” he said, shaking his head. Sampson took several deep breaths. Sweat poured of his face.
Andre looked at Leslie. The rest of the boys had somehow disappeared. “We gotta carry him, man.” Leslie
nodded, and the two of them hoisted the smaller boy between them and carried him home down the same
street, which now seemed even hotter. (Source:
https://betterlesson.com/community/document/3116755/explicit-vs-implicit-quiz-docx ) Based on the text,
identify whether the given statement is explicit or implicit.
 
1.Andre told Sampson to “tough it up.”
2.Leslie and Andre picked Sampson up.
3.Sampson was sad and depressed that his foot was hurt.
4.Sampson could not walk on his foot.
5. Andre, Leslie and Sampson are best friends.
• Directions: Below is the opening paragraph of the story “The Gift of the Magi” which was written by O.
Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter. It was published in 1910. Read the passage carefully and
answer the following questions.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. Sixty cents of it was in pennies.
Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer, the vegetable man,
and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony
that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eightyseven cents and the next day
would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do
but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So, Della did it. Which instigates
the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
predominating
• 1. Why is Della crying?
• 2. What does Christmas have to do with her tears?
• 3. How did she get the money?
• 4. What does O. Henry mean by “with sniffles predominating”?
Directions: On your paper, copy the chart and infer the implicit information
of the given texts.