Comparing Themes

Language Arts-Comparing Themes Exam Review

Recurring or Common Themes

Good vs Evil

Friendship

Collaborative Discussions

*Everyone gets a chance to add their ideas

*We listen to find key points of our group's the discussion

Idioms

Figurative Language

Multiple Choice

Which answer is an example of a recurring theme?

• a soldier returns home from war to find things have changed in his town.

• a mystery about a stolen necklace

• new technology has given a main character means to travel to other planets

• good vs. evil

Multiple Choice

Recurring themes can be found in:

• books

• movies

• all the above

• short stories

Multiple Choice

The first step when you compare stories with similar themes is to:

• elaborate your opinions using text examples

• back up your opinion with reasons

• identify the theme they have in common

• find evidence from the text to back up your claim

Multiple Choice

After you identify a common theme in two different stories you should:

• write the characters you read about

• share your reasons why these two stories have a similar theme

• talk about a movie that also shares the same theme

• write about the settings of the two different stories

Multiple Choice

The best way to reinforce your reasons in an answer is to:

• use sensory language to dazzle your reader

• use a metaphor to drive the point home

• support your reasons with details from the text

• use emotion to persuade

Multiple Choice

Having collaborative discussion means:

• reflecting on a story you have read

• putting everyone's ideas together adding one idea on top of another

• writing your ideas in a journal that you share with your teacher

• listening to your teacher share her ideas about a text

Multiple Choice

How do you review the main points of a discussion?

• try to recall the best points that you made

• try to remember what everyone said

• you try to find the key points in your discussion made by the group

• you write down everything that is discussed

Multiple Choice

Expressions that seem to say one thing but actually mean something else are called:

• metaphors

• idioms

• clichés

• similes

Multiple Choice

Which group of words is an example of an idiom?

• wipe your face

• the first day of school

• run fast

• when pigs fly