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Inferential Reading Ability
Ability to deduce facts or ideas not specifically expressed within a text, commonly known as being able to ‘read between the lines’.
Literature makes considerable use of inference. This is a subtle means of communication, and relies heavily on the sensitivity of the reader to what is implied by the text. When Dickens wrote in A Christmas Carol that Scrooge liked to ‘edge his way along the crowded paths of humanity’, he implies that Scrooge disliked human contact, and the sensitive reader understands this.
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