How can a reader trace how an author develops a central idea throughout a text? choose four answers. By looking for the denotative and the connotative meanings of the author’s words by determining the central idea of each paragraph by identifying the most important details used to support the central idea of each paragraph by analyzing how the author uses context to convey the central idea in each paragraph by summarizing the central idea and key details of each paragraph in a single sentence by finding the common element among the central ideas throughout the text.