ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The main idea is what the book is mostly about. The theme is the message, lesson, or moral of a book. By asking crucial questions at before you read, while you read, and after you read a book, you can determine the main idea and theme of any book you are reading!

Detailed explanation-2: -Theme is the overall message you want readers to take away from your story. It’s the meaning behind the story and is expressed through what happens in the plot and through your character’s internal and external journeys. In other words, plot is what happens in your story. Theme is why it happens.

Detailed explanation-3: -To identify the theme, be sure that you’ve first identified the story’s plot, the way the story uses characterization, and the primary conflict in the story.

Detailed explanation-4: -The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.