To identify and evaluate the theme of a text for a literary analysis, a writer must

Identifying and evaluating a theme means determining the text’s central ideas and considering what message those ideas communicate. Choice A, “assess what the big ideas and the messages in the text mean,” describes that task. Summarizing, outlining, and citing evidence are useful parts of writing an analysis, but they do not by themselves evaluate a theme.

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