leitmotiv, motif, theme, metaphor, catchword, subtext, touchstone, trope, dialectic, allegory, conceit, idiom, deracination, hallmark, wishfulness, archaism, synonym, commonplaces, palimpsest, prefiguring, intertextuality, mantra, orientalism, ambiguousness, sophoclean, idee fixe, reification, narrative, apologia, characteristic, epigraph, grand guignol, metonym, allusions, iconography, paean, preoccupation, danse macabre, arioso, artlessness, punctiliousness, emersonian, threnody, agrarianism, allegoric, fulcrum, metonymy, watchword, archetypal, objective correlative, chaconne, henri bergson, concerto grosso, aestheticism, bugbear, indirectness, focal point, insubstantiality, evanescence, synecdoche, neologism, metier, historicism, deathless, wordsworthian, signifier, ostinato, byword, gombrowicz, inexorability, aphorism, phrase, evocation, serialist, oeuvre, thread, elegies, anouilh, muse, westernism, freudian psychology, romanticism, idealisation, counterpoint, dandyism, stylisation, determinist, fantasia, passacaglia, attitudinizing, shakespearean sonnet, telos, neoclassicism, grotesquery, holism, nabokovian, sensualist, tzara, animality, instrumentalism, percy bysshe shelley, inconstancy, themes, touchstones, determinant, motivator, attribute, desideratum, dynamic, factor, feature, presupposition, tenet

air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune

leitmotiv