Exact Match:
- leitmotiv
- a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- motif
collapse - a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
- a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music related words >
- action,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
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- background detail,
- basis,
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- binding,
- bordering,
- bordure,
- burden,
- case,
- catastrophe,
- chapter,
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- period style,
- peripeteia,
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- plan,
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- problem,
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- repeated figure,
- rising action,
- rubric,
- ruffle,
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- secondary plot,
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- setting,
- skirting,
- slant,
- story,
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- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- subplot,
- substance,
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- argument,
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- case,
- causal,
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- chapter,
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- concern,
- consideration,
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- desideration,
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- design,
- desire,
- determinant,
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- directive,
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- heading,
- idea,
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- living issue,
- lure,
- main point,
- matter,
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- meaning,
- meat,
- mind,
- mobile,
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- motivation,
- motivational,
- motor,
- moving,
- nisus,
- object,
- objective,
- operative,
- passion,
- pattern,
- phrase,
- plan,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- pressing,
- problem,
- prod,
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- propellant,
- propelling,
- proposal,
- propulsive,
- propulsory,
- prospectus,
- pulsive,
- purpose,
- pushing,
- question,
- rationale,
- reason,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- rubric,
- sake,
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- spring,
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- stimulation,
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- stirring,
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- study,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- substance,
- text,
- theme,
- thrusting,
- topic,
- transitional,
- traveling,
- urge,
- urgent,
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- theme
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- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"
- (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
- provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus" related words >
- IC analysis,
- accidence,
- action,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- article,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- background detail,
- basis,
- bound morpheme,
- burden,
- case,
- catastrophe,
- causerie,
- chapter,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- composition,
- concept,
- concern,
- conjugation,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- core,
- cutting,
- declension,
- decorative composition,
- decorative style,
- denouement,
- derivation,
- descant,
- design,
- detail,
- development,
- device,
- difference of form,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- enclitic,
- episode,
- essay,
- essence,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- exposition,
- fable,
- falling action,
- feature,
- figure,
- first approach,
- focus of attention,
- focus of interest,
- foil,
- foreground detail,
- form,
- formative,
- free form,
- gimmick,
- gist,
- head,
- heading,
- homily,
- idea,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- incident,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- introductory study,
- issue,
- keynote,
- leitmotiv,
- line,
- living issue,
- local color,
- lucubration,
- main point,
- matter,
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- morceau,
- morph,
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- morphemic analysis,
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- morphology,
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- motif,
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- movement,
- mythos,
- national style,
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- ornamental motif,
- outline,
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- paragraph,
- pattern,
- period style,
- peripeteia,
- phrase,
- piece,
- plan,
- plot,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- preliminary study,
- problem,
- proclitic,
- prolegomenon,
- question,
- radical,
- recognition,
- repeated figure,
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- review,
- rising action,
- root,
- rubric,
- scheme,
- screed,
- secondary plot,
- setting,
- sketch,
- slant,
- special article,
- stem,
- story,
- structure,
- study,
- style,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- subplot,
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- suffixation,
- survey,
- switch,
- term paper,
- text,
- thematic development,
- thesis,
- thread,
- tone,
- topic,
- touch,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- twist,
- word-formation
- phrase
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- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- a short musical passage
- divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- adage,
- address,
- adjectival phrase,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- ana,
- anacrusis,
- analects,
- answer,
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- choice of words,
- chorus,
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- collected sayings,
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- wisdom,
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