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| - | # A [[literary]] [[theme]] or [[motif]]; a [[rhetorical]] convention or formula. | + | '''''Topos''''' (From Ancient Greek ''τόπος'') means [[place]]. In [[literary theory]] it refers to a [[theme]] or [[motif]]; a [[rhetorical]] [[convention]] or [[formula]]. |
| - | #* '''2003''', [[Roy Porter]], ''Flesh in the Age of Reason'' (Penguin 2004, p. 239) | + | == See also == |
| - | #*: 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. | + | *[[Literary topos]] |
| + | *[[Trope]] | ||
| + | ==Derived terms== | ||
| + | * [[Chronotope]] | ||
| + | * [[Dystopia]] | ||
| + | * [[Hierotopy]] | ||
| + | * [[Topic]] | ||
| + | **[[Topics (Aristotle)]] | ||
| + | * [[Topography]] | ||
| + | * [[Topology]] | ||
| + | * [[Toponymy]] | ||
| + | * [[Utopia]] | ||
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Topos (From Ancient Greek τόπος) means place. In literary theory it refers to a theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
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