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Sophomore English

Key Terms
Theme Analyze Tragedy

How to identify a theme:


Summarize plot Identify subject Identify insight/truth Relate plot and insight/truth Create sentence(s) declaring what was learned and how

Examples of Themes
Birth Family Death

Good and Evil


Life Judgment

Betrayal
Journey

Works Cited
How to identify a theme: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/les son_images/lesson800/theme.pdf Image from Clip Art

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