DO NOT WRITE ON TEST 8th Grade Theme Assessment
1. What is the definition of theme?
a. What a story is about.
b. A short statement retelling the main points of a story.
c. A lesson the author is teaching through a story.
d. Specific details that prove a point the author is making.
a

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explanation:

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the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader

i think idk if im right but i think its d