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- 00:01
We speak student!
- 00:05
[ yodeling ]
- 00:07
Reality TV Part 13
- 00:09
Motifs
- 00:13
[ dog barks ]
Full Transcript
- 00:13
What is a motif?
- 00:16
A motif is, again to use your language from before,
- 00:18
a recurring pattern in literature.
- 00:21
And we've talked about confessionals, judging panel, immunity.
- 00:25
Those are motifs.
- 00:25
Things that any show that you watch
- 00:28
will have some aspect
- 00:31
of that pattern in it.
- 00:33
It might be tweaked a little bit.
- 00:34
In literature, you can talk about -- A motif could be love.
- 00:39
And it's something that comes up
- 00:41
in almost every single work of literature in one way or another, so it's a motif.
- 00:45
A motif is not butterflies, for example.
- 00:48
Butterflies might be a symbol, but not a motif.
- 00:50
These are things and concepts and patterns that come up so much
- 00:53
in any given art form
- 00:55
that they're recognized by the readers or the viewers.
- 00:59
[ pen writing ]
- 01:00
What is a motif?
- 01:03
Check it out, memorize it, tattoo it.
- 01:05
Actually don't tattoo it.
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