Theme in Poetry

Themes are________ in nature.

• Specific

• Universal

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CCSS.RL.4.2

The tapping never stopped, and finally the chick popped out!

The little girl had tried and tried and tried and her dad was finally able to take the training wheels off her bike!

She kept trying that ballet, heard the applause one day, it was perfect. The sun does shine!

What is the theme of this stanza?

• Little kids have a hard time.

• Always keep trying.

• The sun shines.

• Always have on your training wheels.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

_{I said I would do it. I said I would try.}

_{My friends asked to help, I started to yelp.}

_{The assignment was harder than I thought.}

_{My friends came back, I started doing jumping jacks!}

_{They joined in and before you knew it}

_{All was successfully done!}

What is the theme of this poem?

• Don't agree to do things.

• Exercise is important.

• Help from friends can make a hard task go faster.

• You shouldn't ask friends for help.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

I wandered lonely as a cloud.

That floats on high o'er vale and hills.

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

What is the theme of this poem?

• Walking is very lonely.

• Daffodils move in the wind.

• Nature has great beauty in its small details.

• Clouds float across the sky.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

Which sentence helps us understand the sadness of war.

• The cannons roared and the soldiers marched up the hill.
• The flag whipped in the wind as the ship swept the sea.
• The rain came down and landed on the wounded like a mother's tears.
• The warplanes roared into battle and exchanged fire.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

The best definition of theme is...

• The lesson the author is teaching. 
• The message the author is sending.
• A word that summarizes the story.
• The character's main problem.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?

• a)  Poet
• b)  Speaker
• c)  Stanza
• d)  Lines

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

What is the central theme of this poem?

• Nature

• Innocence cannot last

• Sunsets and sunrises are beautiful

• Nature and beauty

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CCSS.RL.4.2

A theme should be a statement, not just one word. 

• TRUE
• FALSE

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CCSS.RL.4.2

Unlike the topic of literature, a theme ...

• can be expressed in one word

• always shows the setting

• is always stated directly in the text

• cannot be just one word

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CCSS.RL.4.2