The image is from www.langwitches.org.
Leitmotif is one of the most prominent German terms in English. A leitmotif is a "recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation" (Google). It seems to have entered the English language with Wagnerian music and comes from the German Leitmotiv, "leading motive".
The image is from www.langwitches.org.
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