Although a text may appear to be about events that take place, the themes are the ideas that run throughout. For example, Romeo and Juliet is about two young lovers from opposing families who meet ...

Instructor distributes 4 passages pulled from one of the major texts. Students spend 10 minutes working on their own to identify and write out a central theme. Working in groups of 3 or 4 students ...

You could say that a theme is the idea that a text is really about. It’s what lies beneath the surface. You can identify themes by looking for repeated images, motifs or ideas. Shakespeare’s ...

A team of psychologists at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Canada, has found via experimentation, that older people are able to identify and remember themes in music pieces just as well as ...