All 3 Uses
theme
in
Paper Towns
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- It's the only theme park I haven't broken into yet.
p. 67.9theme park = an amusement park with one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld
- I took 1-4 west toward Kissimmee and the theme parks, and then passed I-Drive where Margo and I had broken into SeaWorld, and then took Highway 27 down toward Haines City.
p. 164.6 *theme parks = amusement parks each of which have one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld
- It was Ben who sat with me in Cassie Hiney's Winnie-the-Pooh—themed bathroom while I projectile-vomited pink liquid all over a painting of Eeyore.†
p. 178.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(theme as in: musical theme) the initial or primary melody of a musical composition
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(as in "theme song") music that is most repeated in a film, television series, or other theatrical production -
(3)
(theme as in: wrote a 2-page theme on my summer) an essay written by a student
(This sense of theme is much rarer in recent decades than in the past.) - (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)