Actions: Verbal Dialogue
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Badgering
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- Calling by name
- Chanting
- Chatter
- Code-switching / Change in dialect
- Command
- Complaining
- Confession
- Congratulating
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- Debating
- Defining
- Demanding
- Denial
- Disagreeing
- Discussion
- Eloquence
- Esoteric language
- Exaggeration
- Explaining
- Family history
- Flattery
- Flirting
- Garrulousness
- Giving advice
- Gossip
- Haggling
- Honor
- Howling
- Hushing
- Instructing
- Insulting
- Interruption
- Invitation
- Joking
- Listen
- Lying
- Marriage proposal
- Message
- Misspeaking
- Monologue
- Moralizing
- Mumbling
- Naming self
- Negotiation
- News
- Omission
- Ordering
- Persuasion
- Planning
- Praising
- Praying
- Preaching
- Predicting
- Promising
- Provoking
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- Refusing
- Renunciation
- Repetition
- Requesting
- Responding
- Reticence
- Revealing
- Rhetorical question
- Rumor
- Screaming
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- Singing
- Social criticism
- Speculation
- Speech
- Stating intent to leave home / run away
- Storytelling
- Stuttering / stammering
- Swearing
- Talking
- Taunt
- Teasing
- Telling
- Thanking
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Writing
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Actions: Verbal›Dialogue | Work›Law enforcement
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Year›July
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Consoling | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Instructing | Verbal›Tirade
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Pistol | Objects›Satchel | Objects›Towel
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Verbal›Dialogue
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular | Genre Conventions›Mystery
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›February
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Wealth | Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bugs | Body›Flesh | Memory | Objects›Car | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Shakespeare
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Dialogue
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Family
Cultural Issues: Economy›Retirement
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Dialogue
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Jealousy | Marital›Violence
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Daybreak
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Competition | Familial›Extended family
Actions: Economic›Earning Money | Economic›Getting a receipt | Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Dialogue
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Six o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Waiting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›December | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama