Theme Practice

Front

Themes are ________ in nature.

Back

Universal

Front

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?

Back

Always keep trying.

Front

_{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?

Back

Help from friends can make a hard task go faster.

Front

What is the theme of this poem?

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.

Back

Nature has great beauty in its small details.

Front

Theme

Back

A word that summarizes the story.

Front

The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) are the word's ________.

Back

connotation

Front

What is the central theme of the poem:

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.

Back

Innocence cannot last

Front

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

Back

TRUE

Front

How can you often infer the theme of a piece of literature?

Back

Evaluating how a character has changed, sharing a character's experience, determining how the conflict has resolved (ALL of the above)

Front

To identify a theme in a story, a reader can ask ...

Back

What has the character learned?