Writing in the Classroom: High School: Theme

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  1. topic
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  2. topic sentence
    a statement that provides the main idea of a paragraph
  3. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  4. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  5. subject
    the topic of a conversation or discussion
  6. narration
    a telling of a story in writing, drama, or cinema
  7. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  8. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  9. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  10. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  11. first person
    narration from the point of view of the speaker or narrator
  12. second person
    narration from the point of view of the listener
  13. third person
    narration from the point of view of those being described
  14. limited
    subject to restrictions or constraints
  15. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
Created on July 28, 2022 (updated August 2, 2022)

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