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  2. Motif (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    A narrative motif can be created through the use of imagery, structural components, language, and other elements throughout literature. The flute in Arthur Miller 's play Death of a Salesman is a recurrent sound motif that conveys rural and idyllic notions.

  3. Motif (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    A motif may be repeated in a pattern or design, often many times, or may just occur once in a work. [ 1 ] A motif may be an element in the iconography of a particular subject or type of subject that is seen in other works, or may form the main subject, as the Master of Animals motif in ancient art typically does.

  4. Motif - Wikipedia

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  5. Leitmotif - Wikipedia

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    The use of characteristic, short, recurring motifs in orchestral music can be traced back to the early seventeenth century, such as L'Orfeo by Monteverdi.In French opera of the late eighteenth century (such as the works of Gluck, Grétry and Méhul), "reminiscence motif" can be identified, which may recur at a significant juncture in the plot to establish an association with earlier events.

  6. Category:Literary motifs - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Recurring elements in folklore (24 C, ... Werewolf fiction (12 C, 6 P) Wild Hunt (2 C, 25 P) Pages in category ...

  7. Motif (music) - Wikipedia

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    A melodic motif is a melodic formula, established without reference to intervals. A rhythmic motif is the term designating a characteristic rhythmic formula, an abstraction drawn from the rhythmic values of a melody. A motif thematically associated with a person, place, or idea is called a leitmotif or idée fixe. [7]

  8. Ficciones - Wikipedia

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    The labyrinth is a recurring motif throughout the stories. It is used as a metaphor to represent a variety of things: the overwhelmingly complex nature of worlds and the systems that exist on them, human enterprises, the physical and mental aspects of humans, and abstract concepts such as time.

  9. The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) - Wikipedia

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    Groups of three women are a recurring motif in much of Carrington's art, such as Three Women Around the Table (1951), and The Magdalens (1986). Some have concluded that this is a representation of her with her circle of surrealist artist friends in Mexico, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna . [ 5 ]