topos
- n a traditional theme or motif or literary convention
James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses
- Decadence was their major topos, and they wanted to reference drugs and innocence lost and lots of other stuff, though, like much of their catalog, Hotel California seems a lot .
- But Joe enjoyed a good gag, and when he checked up on the mysterious region he was tickled to find that it derived from the Greek ou (not) and topos (a place).