To sit in the synagogue and pray.) ??? ??? ??? Motif a standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in various works (In the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, for example, the word nevermore is a motif appearing at the end of each stanza) ??? ??? ??? Narraration is a dominant pattern of writing or speaking which strives to tell a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical