All 3 Uses of
theme
in
Main Street
- Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.†
Chpt 1
- The next day in library class she had to read a theme on the use of the Cumulative Index, and she was taken so seriously in the discussion that she put off her career of town-planning—and in the autumn she was in the public library of St. Paul.†
Chpt 1
- Their talk was nothing but improvisations on the theme: "I never did like this Haydock.†
Chpt 29 *
Definition:
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(theme as in: theme of the novel) a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work