Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
3162 Failure to defend honor Futility
2623 Fairy-tale Recurring Tropes
2408 Faith Morals
2172 Faithfulness Values

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP

1210 False name Naming
2857 Family history Past
4476 Family honor Values
4250 Family values Values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP

2466 Fan Objects
4205 Farming tools Objects
1927 Fatality Recurring Tropes
2532 Fated Determinism

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR

3279 Father said Recurring Tropes
3942 Fatness / obesity Appearance
4434 Feminine Appearance
530 Fence Objects
5253 Fiddle Objects
1252 Filthy lucre Money

When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW

3554 Fingers Body
1112 Fire Objects
875 Fire on the hearth Recurring Tropes
1986 Fireflies Animals
4510 Firewood Objects
2269 Fish Objects
2958 Fish Animals
3857 Fish trout Animals
2950 Fishing rod Objects
2651 Fixation Recurring Tropes

The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC

2208 Flag Objects
4423 Flashlight Objects
3333 Flat-iron Objects
3665 Fleas Animals
1261 Flesh Body
3750 Flower orchid Objects
2084 Flowers Objects
3292 Flowers Dogwood Objects
5160 Flowers larkspur Objects
3291 Flowers Milkweed Objects
3287 Flowers Roses Objects
3246 Folk customs Supernatural
3133 Folklore Supernatural
727 Fool|Foolishness Character
3301 Foot / Feet Body
2028 Footprint Objects
2020 Forbearance Character
3996 Forehead Body
2112 Forgetting Memory
914 Fox Animals
2464 Fox-horn Objects
1006 Freedom Philosophical
3093 Freedom from it Past
5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
3625 French noble names Naming
1080 Frogs Animals
1932 Frozen / Static Time
931 Funeral Death
3717 Funeral pyre / cremation Death
645 Furniture Objects
374 Futility (First level term)
844 Future Death
2051 Future Time
2403 Gambler Character
2581 Gamecock Animals
2537 Gasoline Objects

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB

5595 Gathering Community
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
3261 Geese Animals
5114 Gendered Determinism
5382 Generous Character
4878 Genetic Determinism
5613 Gestures Story-telling
4257 Getting away Home
1883 Ghost Supernatural
3149 Gift of money Money
4537 Giraffe Animals
4399 Glory Recurring Tropes
1201 Goat Animals
1256 Going fast Recurring Tropes
785 Going to Texas Recurring Tropes
1997 Gold Money
2559 Gold tooth Objects
2879 Golf ball Objects
1559 Good conduct Values
867 Gossip Recurring Tropes
3173 Graffiti Texts
1555 Grander than present Past
5573 Grasshoppers Animals
5574 Grasshoppers (First level term)
1104 Greed Values
2739 Greed Character
2117 Guitar Objects
3576 Gulls Animals
1810 Gun Objects
583 Hair Body
3976 Hair pigtails Appearance
5173 Half dollar Money
2333 Hammer Objects
2677 Hammock Objects
2644 Hand / Palm Body
2534 Hand grip Objects

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