All 4 Uses of
theme
in
Me Before You
- I told you, no theme parks.
p. 278.0 *theme parks = amusement parks each of which have one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld
- Thomas had hummed the theme tune from The Little Mermaid at me for almost the whole of breakfast.†
p. 16.8
- I was warming to my theme now.†
p. 105.5
- Falling out of chairs seemed to be a common theme.†
p. 231.1
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
or
(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.)