Environment: Atmospheric Gloom
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Arcadian
- Bleak
- Burgeoning
- Candlelight
- Chaos
- Claustrophobic
- Cold
- Creepy
- Crowded
- Dangerous
- Dark
- Dereliction
- Devastation
- Doom
- Dread
- Dust
- Familiar
- Fire
- Firelight
- Full moon
- Grayness
- Hallucinated
- Harvest moon
- Haunted
- Heat
- Ice floes / iceberg
- Light
- Meteor shower
- Moonlit
- Night
- Oppressive
- Peaceful
- Racialized
- Sexual
- Spectral
- Spiritual
- Squalor
- Starlight
- Sterile
- Stillness
- Streetlamp
- Sunlight
- Thunder
- Torch-light
- Twinkling
- Unfamiliar place
- Wetness
- Wind
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Public›Store
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Cultural Issues: Age›Agelessness | Age›Spinsterhood | Agriculture›Cotton | Agriculture›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Class›Social decline | Class›Social mobility | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Popular magazines
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Winter
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Natural›Woods | Time of Year›November | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Description›Color green
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Decayed house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Texts | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Metafictional
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Typography/Orthography›Inscription | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›House | Place›Houses | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Weather›Heat
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Obeying / obedience | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Lace | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Home›Neglect | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Forgiveness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Gender›Female body | Gender›Women | Religion›Damnation | Religion›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Flesh | Body›Voice | Death›Response to | Objects›Photograph | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Obsession | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Niobe | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Architecture
Actions: Work›Building structure
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Home | Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Cleaning
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Law›Inheritance | Technology›Electricity
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Domestic Space›Hearth
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses | Economy›Poverty | Land-Use›Ownership | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Southern curse
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Canaan | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Olfactory›Gunpowder | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Corpse | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild