A theme is a universal message in a story, poem, or text.
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A theme is never just one word.
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Themes use words like "people" to make the message universal.
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Themes may sometimes use character names or describe plot.
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Big ideas are the large problems that a story is about.
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Authors often reveal theme through characterization, conflict and resolution, or literary devices.
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Characterization is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details of a character in a story. .
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Combining more than one big ideas often make a stronger, more complex theme statement.
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To write an upside-down triangle introduction, you start with a general connection to the world, then introduce the stories and authors, and end with a thesis.
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Conclusions use the same information as the introduction - world, text, thesis.
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Introductions start very general and get more specific, but conclusions do the opposite.
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What is the possible theme statement for this short story?