Actions: Verbal Persuasion
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
- Dialogue
- 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
- 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›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Actions: Economic›Selling | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Panama hat
Relationships: Familial›Father-son in law | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Indecision | Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Persuasion
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Perceptual›Overhearing | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Flood
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Indebtedness | Interaction, Social›Charity | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Emotional›Regret | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Race›Racial spheres | Slavery›Metaphorical | War›World War I
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Hiding | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Morals›Justice | Past›Quest to recover
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Verbal›Persuasion
Cultural Issues: Education›Female education | Education›Need to be educated | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Verbal›Persuasion
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client