Theme (literature)
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A theme is a broad, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character
, etting (fiction)|settingstresses that idea, message, and moral are abstractions and that fiction makes the idea concrete through action. In this view many themes exist in any given story but that what gives a story unity is one action of the human condition that is rendered through the various actions of the characters in the story.
or theme important to the story. This device dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights which connects several tales together in a story cycle. The storytellers of the tales relied on this technique "to shape the constituent members of thei hi 'go Bold text' into a coherent whole." This technique is also used frequently in Hebrew narratives.
among the various incidents and. Thematic patterning may be arranged so as to emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea which disparate events and disparate frames have in common". This technique also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights.
Character (arts)
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
, etting (fiction)|settingstresses that idea, message, and moral are abstractions and that fiction makes the idea concrete through action. In this view many themes exist in any given story but that what gives a story unity is one action of the human condition that is rendered through the various actions of the characters in the story.
Leitwortstil
Leitwortstil is the purposeful saying of words throughout a literary piece that usually ehl a motifMotif (narrative)
In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative aspects such as theme or mood....
or theme important to the story. This device dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights which connects several tales together in a story cycle. The storytellers of the tales relied on this technique "to shape the constituent members of thei hi 'go Bold text' into a coherent whole." This technique is also used frequently in Hebrew narratives.
Thematic patterning
Thematic patterning is "the distribution of recurrent thematic concepts and moralistic motifsMotif (narrative)
In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative aspects such as theme or mood....
among the various incidents and. Thematic patterning may be arranged so as to emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea which disparate events and disparate frames have in common". This technique also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights.