Motif vs Topos - What's the difference?
motif | topos |
A recurring or dominant element; a theme.
(music) A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work
A decorative figure that is repeated in a design
(crystallography) The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
(biochemistry) In a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.
A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
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(mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.
As nouns the difference between motif and topos
is that motif is a recurring or dominant element; a theme while topos is a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.motif
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Noun
(en noun)- See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?
topos
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(wikipedia topos)Noun
(en-noun)- The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
