Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4138 | Hounds | Hunting | ||
4155 | Heart beating | Bodily | ||
4156 | Humiliation | Emotional | ||
4160 | Moment of vision | Perceptual |
For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR |
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4162 | Barbering | Work | ||
4166 | Possessiveness | Emotional | ||
4168 | Poisoning | Violent | ||
4169 | Fascination | Emotional | ||
4172 | Reticence | Verbal | ||
4173 | Non-human | Communication |
To capture when an animal "talks" - for example, when the narrator of "Race at Morning" says the lead dog Eagle "said, 'There he goes'" when he saw the deer. Here the narrator translates the dog's baying into words, but that isn't necessary with this term. It's for when communication occurs between species, probably always between an animal and a person. SR |
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4175 | Joking around | Play | ||
4182 | Hiccups | Bodily | ||
4191 | Observing | Perceptual | ||
4194 | Traveling salesman | Work | ||
4199 | Disorientation | Mental | ||
4200 | Hearing | Perceptual | ||
4213 | Censorship | Communication | ||
4220 | Getting closer | Movement |
When someone's thoughts during a journey are focused on the place they're heading for, either with excitement or dread or something in between. SR |
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4223 | Rejection | Interaction, Private | ||
4225 | Prank | Play | ||
4227 | Sexual | Interaction, Private | ||
4231 | Homicide | Violent | ||
4232 | Barter | Economic | ||
4234 | Receiving money | Economic |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4139 | Island of silence | Figures of Speech | ||
4142 | Mirror | Figures of Speech | ||
4152 | Cleansing power of water | Symbolism | ||
4153 | Baptism | Allusion, Biblical | ||
4154 | no no | Language | ||
4157 | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Allusion, Geographical | ||
4158 | Leda and the Swan | Allusion, Mythical | ||
4164 | Great Depression | Allusion, Historical | ||
4165 | Reported narration passim | Narrative | ||
4170 | Vernacular | Figures of Speech | ||
4178 | Reported narration passim in section | Narrative | ||
4189 | Technological imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
4190 | Native American | Figures of Speech | ||
4195 | Alabama | Allusion, Geographical | ||
4204 | Armistice Day | Allusion, Historical | ||
4207 | Musical imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
4208 | Jazz Age | Allusion, Historical | ||
4215 | Location portrait | Description | ||
4217 | Grammatically incorrect | Language | ||
4219 | Amiens, France | Allusion, Geographical | ||
4221 | Slang, military | Language | ||
4237 | Kitchener, Horatio Herbert | Allusion, Historical |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4140 | Black women | Gender | ||
4143 | Interference | Government | ||
4145 | Skirt | Clothes | ||
4149 | Wet clothes | Clothes | ||
4167 | Inequalities | Race |
Created to capture the pervasive patterns of difference caused by race - specifically, that the white hunters in "Race at Morning" carry good guns while Simon carries an old "britchloader slung on a piece of plow line" (298). Could also be used to capture what Bayard calls the "arrangements" between him and Ringo, etc. SR |
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4174 | Race | Food |
This keyword should be used when food is connected to race. Examples could include when certain foods are coded racially or when food consumption is related to racial identity. CR |
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4176 | Competition | Hunting and Fishing | ||
4180 | Predatory | Sexuality | ||
4181 | As metaphor | War | ||
4185 | Bear meat | Food | ||
4186 | Dropping out | Education | ||
4192 | Sacramental | Hunting and Fishing | ||
4193 | Cure | Health and Illness | ||
4203 | Tennis shoes | Clothes | ||
4212 | Psychological effects | War | ||
4222 | Prisoner | War | ||
4226 | Military education | Education | ||
4228 | Military awards | War | ||
4230 | Bureaucracy | Government | ||
4233 | Southern stereotype | Identity, Cultural |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4141 | Breakup | Marital | ||
4151 | Reconciliation | Marital | ||
4159 | Uncertain relationship | Familial | ||
4179 | Inappropriate | Sexual | ||
4196 | Entrapment | Marital | ||
4201 | Engagement | Romantic | ||
4229 | Nepotism | Familial |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4144 | Sand | Natural | ||
4147 | Monday | Time of Year | ||
4163 | Perfect Weather | Weather |
Perfect, that is, for the context - which can either mean clear sunlight OR pitch darkness, frost or rain. Whenever the weather feels right. For the dawn of the hunt in "Race at Morning," it means "cold and bright" (297). |
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4183 | Unfamiliar place | Atmospheric |
When the action of a story takes someone into a place they've never been before, for example the "strange country" that the chase of the deer reaches in "Race at Morning" (301). |
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4184 | Nine o'clock p.m. | Time of Day | ||
4187 | Shots | Auditory | ||
4202 | Fog | Weather | ||
4235 | Bank | Public |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4146 | Insects crickets | Animals | ||
4148 | Missing | Absence/Loss | ||
4150 | Willow tree | Objects | ||
4161 | Scythe | Objects | ||
4171 | Sentience | Animals |
Created to capture passages which describe an animal as thinking, knowing - specifically, for the way the horse and the hunting dogs "know where" the deer was hiding "as good as we did" in "Race at Morning," a knowledge that is seen is their behavior (299). SR |
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4177 | Point-of-view | Animals |
Created for a moment in "Race at Morning" when the narrator imagines what the hunted deer is seeing and thinking. There may not be other instances of this, but to open up the narrative to the subjectivity of an animal seems worth noting. SR |
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4188 | Distance from home | Home |
For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR |
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4197 | Nondescript | Appearance | ||
4198 | Return to Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
4205 | Farming tools | Objects | ||
4206 | Past vs present | Past | ||
4209 | Apparition | Recurring Tropes | ||
4210 | Vanishing | Recurring Tropes | ||
4211 | Physical disability | Body | ||
4214 | Construction tools | Objects | ||
4216 | Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes | ||
4218 | Nothing to do | Futility |
"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined. |
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4224 | Repression | Psychological | ||
4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes |