WES Theme Main Idea Review 1

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

• skim through the text

• read the beginning of the text only

• think about what the character has learned

• read the ending of the story only

What is the theme of this story?

Once upon a time there was a cat named Lucky. Lucky was in a big hurry to go to the fish market. She had a taste for fresh fish and couldn't wait to get the freshest fish from the ship. She ran out the door and across the street without looking. As he neared the edge of the sidewalk on the opposite side of the road, she felt the breeze of the air left from the car that pasted by her. Lucky realized that she had narrowly escaped being hit by a car.

• Cars are very dangerous items.

• Cats have nine lives.

• Look both ways before crossing the street.

• Fresh fish is not always the best fish.

Theme can be found in which genre?

• fiction

• nonfiction

• both fiction and nonfiction

• neither fiction or nonfiction

Theme is...

• how the reader feels about the story.

• the central message or moral of the story.

• the title of the text

• how the author persuades the reader.

A text can have more than one theme?

• True

• False

What is the difference between theme and main idea?

• Theme is the universal lesson and main idea is what the text is about.

• Theme is what a story is about and main idea is the universal lesson it teaches.

• Theme is what the text is about and main idea is the lesson the author is teaching the reader.

• Theme is the topic that is supported by details and the main idea is the lesson the reader learns from the text.

Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?

• a "big idea" that people from any culture or any place can understand.

• the "moral" of the story.

• a "life lesson" the main character learns.

• how a character is feeling.

You can often infer the theme of a piece of literature by...

• evaluating how a character has changed.

• determining how the conflict has resolved.

• sharing a character's experience.

• all of the above

Which of the following statements about theme is true?

• authors NEVER use the same theme twice.

• all poems have the same theme.

• Themes only repeat in short stories.

• The same themes can occur in different stories and/or different authors.

An author usually does not state the theme in the story directly. The reader must use context clues to infer his/her idea.

• true

• false

• depends on the text