Question

Read the sentence from a paper on Elizabethan Women.

Highborn Elizabethan women lived difficult, suffocating lives with many rules and few choices.

In the sentence, the writer describes

the central idea.
a general topic.
a supporting detail.
the author’s purpose.

Answer 1

the central idea.

It states the main point/claim of the paper (that highborn Elizabethan women lived difficult, constrained lives), rather than simply naming a topic, giving a minor detail, or explaining the author's purpose.