Usage examples (38)

• Very roughly, a topos is a category possessing a logical structure sufficiently rich to develop most of
• Now a topos is a motif which takes the form of a literary commonplace or rhetorical set-piece: e.g., the comparison between nature and a book or between the world and...
• So it appears that Percy Shelley developed an oppositional poetics which pitted one kind of topos against another.
• These are "topos" ( "place") inscriptions followed by a name in the possessive case, which gave official authorization to a particular salesman to use this spot.