What is theme?

Riley Lebsack, M.S.

Theme can be understood in a couple of different ways. I like to think of theme as the
overlying idea or "message" in a text. There is even a fun little trick to help you
remember this: Theme is THE MEssage. You can see the word "theme" as the first five
letters of "the message"! That helps me remember what it means. Some people prefer to
think of theme as the main idea of a text.

Finding and understanding the
theme of a work of literature is often a bit tricky. Theme tends to be an...

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