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Good example of motif:

“On one side, we had the recipe fundamentalists, like my aunt who wouldn’t dare swap out walnuts for pecans, lest she commit a culinary sin worthy of excommunication.“

In a single example, there are three words that all point to the same religious metaphor: fundamentalist, sin, excommunication. Motif speaks to how strong your m

90% of the meaning is in 10% of the words.

For pleonasm, (“black darkness”) a modern editor would say to cut “black” because it’s already covered in darkness. There’s a bias to reduce redundancies, but it’s not an absolute rule. There can be power in duplicity.