Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3834 | Tragic / tragedy | Emotional | ||
| 1763 | Train | Movement | ||
| 4015 | Training | Military | ||
| 3686 | Trampling | Physical | ||
| 4487 | Transactional | Economic | ||
| 3212 | Transcribing | Communication | ||
| 869 | Transporting | Physical | ||
| 3091 | Travel | Physical | ||
| 4194 | Traveling salesman | Work | ||
| 1443 | Trembling | Physical | ||
| 1445 | Trembling | Bodily | ||
| 2523 | Trial | Legal | ||
| 3808 | Tripping | Physical | ||
| 3391 | Triumph | Emotional | ||
| 2048 | Truck | Movement | ||
| 1626 | Turkey hunting | Hunting | ||
| 3989 | Turning away | Physical | ||
| 2605 | Ultimatum | Verbal | ||
| 2349 | Unaware | Mental | ||
| 575 | Uncertainty | Mental | ||
| 981 | Understanding | Mental | ||
| 1367 | Undressing | Physical | ||
| 2067 | Unknowable | Perceptual |
This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP |
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| 2428 | Unsent message | Communication | ||
| 4629 | Urinating | Bodily | ||
| 943 | Vengeance | Violent | ||
| 1277 | Vengeful | Emotional | ||
| 355 | Verbal | (First level term) | ||
| 2188 | Vindictive | Emotional | ||
| 3260 | Violence against animals | Violent | ||
| 356 | Violent | (First level term) | ||
| 1539 | Visiting | Interaction, Social | ||
| 4986 | Visualize | Mental | ||
| 1293 | Vomiting | Bodily | ||
| 2524 | Voting | Interaction, Social | ||
| 2519 | Vowing | Verbal | ||
| 552 | Voyeurism | Perceptual | ||
| 497 | Wagon | Movement | ||
| 3264 | Wagon|Car maintenance | Physical | ||
| 5651 | Waiter | Work | ||
| 1616 | Waiting | Hunting | ||
| 1879 | Waiting | Physical | ||
| 2854 | Waiting | Emotional | ||
| 4621 | Waitress | Work | ||
| 2180 | Waking | Bodily | ||
| 704 | Walking | Movement | ||
| 2735 | Walking | Physical | ||
| 1269 | Warning | Verbal | ||
| 5216 | Warrant | Legal | ||
| 1189 | Washing | Domestic | ||
| 630 | Washing clothes | Physical | ||
| 658 | Washing clothes | Work | ||
| 1482 | Watching | Bodily | ||
| 1726 | Watching | Perceptual | ||
| 4722 | Watching | Physical | ||
| 4071 | Wave / waving | Physical | ||
| 5166 | Weakness | Bodily | ||
| 5293 | Weaving | Work | ||
| 4647 | Whimper | Verbal | ||
| 2482 | Whipping | Violent | ||
| 1077 | Whispering | Verbal | ||
| 5147 | Whistling | Physical | ||
| 5079 | Whittling | Physical | ||
| 4014 | Wildcat hunting | Hunting | ||
| 4571 | Will | Legal | ||
| 4080 | Winking | Physical | ||
| 3127 | Wishing | Verbal | ||
| 5518 | Withdrawal from public | Interaction, Social | ||
| 868 | Withholding | Verbal | ||
| 1570 | Without words | Communication |
When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow. |
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| 357 | Work | (First level term) | ||
| 4431 | Work song | Bodily | ||
| 825 | Worry | Emotional | ||
| 5628 | Wrestling | Physical | ||
| 1900 | Writing | Communication | ||
| 5224 | Writing | Verbal | ||
| 4832 | Wrong direction | Movement | ||
| 5497 | Yard work | Work | ||
| 2752 | Yelling | Verbal |
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1202 | "Wait" | Recurring Tropes |
Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW |
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| 910 | Abandonment | Absence/Loss | ||
| 2880 | Abrupt shift in time | Time |
For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F. |
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| 1327 | Absence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 617 | Absence as disguise | Absence/Loss |
This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR |
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| 1331 | Absence as loss | Absence/Loss | ||
| 5275 | Absence as presence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4512 | Absence of sound | Absence/Loss | ||
| 358 | Absence/Loss | (First level term) | ||
| 2604 | Absurdity | Meaning | ||
| 1689 | Accident | Chaos/Order | ||
| 4419 | Accounts | Texts | ||
| 517 | Advent | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 5401 | Aesthetic experience | Meaning | ||
| 3798 | African American music | Art | ||
| 626 | African-American | Community | ||
| 2232 | Afterlife | Death | ||
| 3214 | Air gun | Objects | ||
| 3252 | Airplane | Objects | ||
| 1459 | Alarm | Arrivals/Departures |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
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| 1783 | Alias | Naming |