Aesthetics: Figures of Speech Shadow
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Affirmation
- Animals compared to objects
- Animals compared to people
- Ants
- Armor
- Arrow
- Bestial imagery
- Bird
- Bloom
- Breath
- Bride / Bridal
- Butterfly
- Calf rope
- Chains
- Chess
- Chess imagery stalemate
- Clay
- Clean flame
- Cloud
- Coal dust
- Coupled
- Creditor
- Death / Dead imagery
- Dehumanizing
- Desert island
- Disease
- Drained marsh
- Drama / Theatre imagery
- Electricity
- Embroidery
- Exoticism
- Expression
- Eyes
- Face
- Fertilise / Fertility imagery
- Fire
- Fish
- Flag
- Flood imagery
- Food and drink imagery
- Gambling imagery
- Ghost
- Glass
- Glove
- Gull
- Harvest
- Hunting metaphor / imagery
- Hyperbole
- Invisible wire
- Island of silence
- Jackal
- King and/or queen
- Locked
- Loom
- Mask
- Medical / Surgical
- Metaphor
- Metonym
- Military analogy
- Military terminology
- Mirage
- Mirror
- Monument
- Moth
- Musical imagery
- Native American
- Negation
- Old maid
- Oxymoron
- Paint
- Parrot
- Pathetic fallacy
- Pencil
- People compared to animals
- Periodical filth
- Personification
- Photography
- Pilgrim
- Planets
- Planting
- Poisoned
- Puppy
- Rabbit
- Rain
- Rape
- Rats
- Replica
- Ripple
- Sacrifice
- Scarecrow
- Scientific
- Scratch
- Scythe
- Seed
- Sheep
- Shell
- Simile
- Simile-mask
- Skeleton
- Skull
- Slot machine
- Space program
- Stage manager
- Stencil
- Stone
- Swallows
- Swine
- Synesthesia
- Talisman
- Technological imagery
- Threads
- Thunderclap
- Tomb
- Tornado
- Toy bear / teddybear
- Toys
- Train / locomotive imagery
- Treadmill
- Vernacular
- Violent in figurative sense
- Voice
- Water
- Weaponry imagery
- Wild breath
- Woodpile
Tagged Events
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Gender›Body | Gender›Patriarchy | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Horsewhip | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Psychological›Madness | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mirage | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Metafictional›Signs
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Haunting | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Intergenerational
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Performance
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Stage manager | Figures of Speech›Woodpile
Environment: Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Supernatural›Phantom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Blood
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Juan | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Shadows
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Offering to sell | Economic›Taking without paying | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Moaning | Mental›Misunderstanding | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Fence | Objects›Flag | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Cruelty | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Misunderstanding | Play | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Flowers | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Symbolism›Shadows