leitmotif Definition

leitmotiv, motif, theme, mantra, watchword, thread, motto, slogan, tagline, thrust, keynote, metaphor, subtext, trope, allegory, iconography, narrative, preoccupation, ostinato, phrase, archetype, counterpoint, catchword, touchstone, dialectic, conceit, idiom, deracination, hallmark, wishfulness, archaism, synonym, commonplaces, palimpsest, prefiguring, intertextuality, orientalism, ambiguousness, sophoclean, idee fixe, reification, apologia, characteristic, epigraph, grand guignol, metonym, allusions, paean, danse macabre, arioso, artlessness, punctiliousness, emersonian, threnody, agrarianism, fulcrum, metonymy, objective correlative, chaconne, henri bergson, concerto grosso, aestheticism, bugbear, indirectness, focal point, insubstantiality, evanescence, synecdoche, neologism, metier, historicism, signifier, byword, gombrowicz, inexorability, aphorism, evocation, serialist, oeuvre, elegies, anouilh, muse, westernism, freudian psychology, romanticism, idealisation, dandyism, stylisation, determinist, fantasia, passacaglia, attitudinizing, shakespearean sonnet, telos, neoclassicism, grotesquery, holism, nabokovian, sensualist, tzara,