7th ELA Theme

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Theme

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Life lesson or message in a literary work

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A theme cannot be a single word, but a ___________.

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sentence

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Themes will not be clearly stated, but rather __________.

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implied throughout the book

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What you can learn from an entire story is a _________?

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Theme

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An good example of a theme.

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Money cannot buy people happiness.

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The best definition of theme is...

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The message the author is sending.

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Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story? Options: how a character is feeling, a "life lesson" the main character learns, a big idea that people from any culture or any place can understand, the moral of the story

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how a character is feeling

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When determining a theme, the reader should first consider...

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the subject or topic

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One way you could figure out the theme is to...

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Think about what the character has learned

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The phone rang.  She dropped the phone and tears began to drop onto her check.  Her lip quivered as she pictured the scene that was described to her.  "NO!" she wailed.

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experiencing loss/grief is difficult