a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula

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Definition of a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula in English English dictionary

topos

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.

Hyphenation

a lit·e·ra·ry theme or motif; a rhe·to·ri·cal con·ven·tion or for·mu·la