| NOUN | cognition | topos | a traditional theme or motif or literary convention |
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| Meaning | A traditional theme or motif or literary convention. | |
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| Example | "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses" | |
| Broader | theme, motif | A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work |
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