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noun • a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration • a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music • a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | ||||||||
| 31% | 14 | A stylistic device where the order of words is reversed in order to achieve a certain effect | ||||||
noun • A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | ||||||||
| 28% | 12 | Can be reversed with proper oral hygiene | ||||||
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Themes Proper Order Reversed Crossword Clue
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MOTIF which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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MOTIF
Updated: October 14, 2023
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