Theme Flashcards
What is theme?
The central idea or message of a story
Reflects insight about life or human nature
Conveys author
What is ‘not theme’?
What happened in a story
A SINGLE WORD or phrase but ‘it is a compleate statement’
What are two examples of something that is not the ‘not theme’?
Love vs loss
Elsa runs away when everybody realizes that she has mysticle powers, Anna adventures out to find her sister and bring her home
What are two examples of theme?
People who are different or have unique talents should not be hidden away, or be afraid of showing their talents.
Love uplifts humans because it makes them feel connection with others, yet losing it creats feelings of pain
Love will always conquers hate.
Determine a theme
Theme is not directly stated
Title usually offers hints
Infrared from how main character has changed
A couple more ways to determie a theme (ways how character changes creates theme)
State generalization about life or human nature
begin with abstract topics reveal to story
ask/answer what readers learns or what author has to say about such topics
