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What do we call a phrase, object, or other element in a story that recurs often and is used to help unify ideas?

theme

atmosphere

pathos

motif

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Motif. a significant word, phrase, image, description, idea, or other element repeated throughout a literary work and related to the theme
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the theme !

it's the main idea of the story
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