Themes and Motifs: Death Burial
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Afterlife
- Ambiguous circumstances
- And inheritance
- Animal bear
- Animal Dog
- Animal horse
- Animal mule
- Anticipation of death
- Bones
- Car accident
- Child
- Coffin
- Compared to living
- Compared to sleep
- Corpse
- Death by water / Drowning
- Death sentence
- Deathbed
- Denial
- Disease
- Dying wish
- Epitaph
- Eulogy
- Execution
- Funeral
- Funeral pyre / cremation
- Future
- Hearse
- Imagined
- In childbirth
- Indian burial practices
- Killing oneself slowly
- Left for dead
- Like death
- Liminal
- Longing for death
- Moment of
- Moving a dead body
- Murder
- Of parent
- Plane accident
- Preparing for death
- Respect
- Response to
- Spousal
- Suicide
- Suspicious
- Wake
Tagged Events
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conspiracy | Moral›Scheming | Movement›Following | Play›Gambling | Work›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Crime›Sedition | Crime›Treason | Government›Right of secession | Health and Illness›Amputation | Health and Illness›Injury | History›Burr conspiracy | War›American Revolution | War›Recuperation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Commemoration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Body›Hair | Death›Burial
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Death›Burial
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Actions: Communication›Writing | Movement›Surrey
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Community›Social life | Death›Burial | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Loom | Figures of Speech›Skull | Figures of Speech›Stone | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Coma
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Wedding dress | Gender›Idealization
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Persuasion
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Actions: Legal›Charge/accuse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson | Economy›Evaluate exchange value | Economy›Property | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Death›Burial | Philosophical›Ethics | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson | Values›Propriety
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anti-climax
Actions: Emotional›Indecision | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Philosophical›Luck | Psychological›Motivation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Revision | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Teaching | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Crime›Murder | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Trial | Mass Media›Newspaper | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Persistence over time
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Determinism›Genetic
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Class›noblesse-oblige | Gender›Chivalry
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Burial | Home›Homecoming
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Hurrying
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Repetition | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Burial | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Mannie's death | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Environment: Place›Gambling house
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment
Environment: Auditory›Howling | Domestic Space›Barn
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Death›Burial | Death›Funeral | Death›Hearse | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Phantom | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Weak heart
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Eulogy | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Gun | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee