exists and is an alternate of . The building of mountains, the formation of continents, the movement of plates take millions of years. This makes familiar human time scales -- days, months, years, decades or even centuries and millennia -- meaningless.
Transcript of Explicit & Implicit Theme. Explicit & Implicit Theme. Uses. implicit theme would be used in a more meaningful novel or book that alows you to imagine things like a fictional novel. Explicit theme would be used in a less meaningfull book with more hard facts like a documentary or textbook. Explicit Theme. Compare/Contrast.
Theme: (1) the abstract concept explored in a literary work; (2) frequently recurring ideas, such as enjoy-life while-you-can; (3) repetition of a meaningful element in a work, such as references to sight, vision, and blindness in Oedipus Rex. Sometimes the theme is also called the motif.