What is the best definition of a theme? A) The events that occur in a story
B) The narrator's opinion of events
C) An underlying idea
D) An author's purpose in writing the story

An underlying idea

Explanation:

All theme is about is a writer expressing their ideas in their books/poems. Some examples in themes are love, war, good v.s evil, redemption, coming of age, revenge, and courage in someone.

These themes are always found in personal narrative stories because the author writing it is putting their own Point of View in a character they created or you see it in everyday comic books you read.

Therefore it is an underlying idea, so C is your answer

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question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.