Theme Terms Quiz

A statement that reveals a central idea, insight, or observation about life from a text; can be stated more than one way

• theme

• symbol

• character

• flashback

the writer does not explicitly state the this, the reader must be able to figure it out and state it by using textual evidence for support

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• foreshadowing

• theme

Ability to understand things as they really are; writers provide awareness of life through storytelling

• Sequence

• Insight

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

an explicitly stated lesson about right and wrong usually found in very short stories for children

• theme

• protagonist

• moral

• antagonist

These questions help readers figure out, what? How is the title significant? How do the characters change? How is the conflict resolved? What are the general realizations about life?

• Theme

• Dramatic Irony

• Ambiguity

• Dynamic Character

What is true about thematic statements?

• It is that same as a subject.
• It is the idea the author wishes to convey abut a subject.
• It is the same as the moral of the story.
• There is only one theme per story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

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 and man
• Innocence cannot last
• Sunsets and sunrises are beautiful
• Nature and beauty

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Themes are often cliche such as, "Actions speak louder than words."

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

A novel can have more than one theme.

• TRUE
• FALSE

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.3