Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2129 | Bugle | Auditory | ||
2135 | Bad smell | Olfactory | ||
2139 | Power Plant | Place | ||
2153 | Mild | Weather | ||
2157 | Lonelier parts of town | Place |
Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP |
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2185 | Claustrophobic | Atmospheric | ||
2201 | Old woman smell | Olfactory |
For when Faulkner texts make explicit reference to the smell of elderly (old) women - "faint odor of old maidens" in "Go Down, Moses," the "rank smell of female old flesh" in "Absalom," etc. (Question: Does Faulkner ever reference the smell of old MEN?) JBP |
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2215 | Golf course | Public | ||
2221 | Stars | Natural | ||
2224 | Warmth | Weather |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2130 | Metonym | Figures of Speech | ||
2140 | Scientific | Figures of Speech |
To be used for figures of speech drawn from science (for example, references to osmosis, astronomy, or Darwinian evolution) - CR |
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2144 | Cuba | Allusion, Geographical | ||
2156 | Military terminology | Figures of Speech | ||
2163 | Noah/flood | Allusion, Biblical | ||
2164 | Caesar, Julius | Allusion, Historical | ||
2165 | Crusades | Allusion, Historical | ||
2167 | Chicago | Allusion, Geographical | ||
2168 | Monroe, Marilyn | Allusion, Historical | ||
2169 | Harlow, Jean | Allusion, Historical | ||
2170 | Grable, Betty | Allusion, Historical | ||
2173 | Mary | Allusion, Biblical | ||
2182 | Quotation as thought | Narrative |
For when a text says a character "thinks" or "thought" something - often as a passage in quotation marks but also sometimes in italics. In those cases, perhaps the "Italics" keyword should also be applied. JBP |
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2187 | Bluebeard | Allusion, Literary | ||
2189 | Dragon's teeth | Allusion, Mythical | ||
2190 | Clytemnestra | Allusion, Mythical | ||
2191 | Greek tragedy | Allusion, Literary | ||
2203 | Negro spirituals | Allusion, Literary | ||
2211 | Unreliable narrator | Narrative | ||
2212 | Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative | ||
2222 | Animals compared to people | Figures of Speech |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2131 | Dancing | Physical | ||
2132 | Food preparation | Domestic | ||
2136 | Seeking approval | Interaction, Private | ||
2146 | Skepticism | Mental | ||
2147 | Parenting | Interaction, Private | ||
2148 | Domineering | Interaction, Private | ||
2149 | Healing | Bodily | ||
2159 | Intrusion | Physical | ||
2160 | Painting|Drawing | Work | ||
2162 | Freeing | Physical | ||
2171 | Ball/dance | Interaction, Social | ||
2175 | Newspaper columns and notices | Communication |
For references to items in newspapers that aren't exactly news articles - "agony advice columns," for instance (in "Miss Zilpha Gant"), or obituaries, or similar items. JBP |
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2176 | Reading / Researching | Perceptual | ||
2177 | Imagining | Mental | ||
2178 | Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily | ||
2180 | Waking | Bodily | ||
2184 | Hate | Emotional | ||
2188 | Vindictive | Emotional | ||
2192 | Children playing | Play | ||
2194 | Playing music | Bodily | ||
2205 | Sports Golf | Play | ||
2207 | Impairment | Mental | ||
2218 | Moaning | Emotional | ||
2219 | Misunderstanding | Mental | ||
2227 | Exhaustion | Emotional |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2133 | Displacement | War | ||
2134 | Demotion | War | ||
2137 | Challenge | Religion |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
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2138 | Imagined | Violence | ||
2141 | Bathing suit | Clothes | ||
2142 | Spanish American War | War | ||
2143 | West Point | Education | ||
2154 | Puberty | Sexuality |
For when a text makes reference (perhaps implicitly) to puberty and/or sexual maturing. It was added for the moment in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother makes her get naked and examines her body each month when she turns 13. |
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2155 | Learning about | Sexuality |
This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP |
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2166 | New replacing old | Progress | ||
2174 | Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality | ||
2179 | Poisoning | Health and Illness | ||
2199 | Funeral arrangements | Ritual | ||
2202 | Legacy after emancipation | Slavery |
Refers to when a text alludes to the legacy of slavery years (or decades) after the end of slavery. It was created to tag the references to "sold my Benjamin" in "Go Down, Moses" - a story whose very title alludes to slavery. JBP |
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2209 | Birthday | Ritual | ||
2210 | Birthday cake | Food | ||
2213 | Traveling show | Entertainment |
Any kind of traveling show - the show in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or the circus in "Light in August." JBP |
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2225 | Boots | Clothes | ||
2226 | Carpetbaggers | History | ||
2228 | Wine | Alcohol |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2145 | Scar | Body | ||
2150 | Stove | Objects | ||
2151 | Dolls | Objects | ||
2152 | Refund | Money | ||
2158 | Long passage of time | Time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
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2161 | Eyeglasses | Objects | ||
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 |
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2181 | Precognition / Something to happen | Recurring Tropes |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
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2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
2186 | Protest | Morals | ||
2193 | Piano | Objects | ||
2195 | Propriety | Values | ||
2196 | Damask | Objects | ||
2197 | Porcelain | Objects | ||
2198 | Candelabra | Objects | ||
2200 | Collecting money | Money |
Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP |
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2204 | Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes | ||
2206 | Learning disability | Psychological | ||
2208 | Flag | Objects | ||
2216 | Lost | Money | ||
2217 | Stolen | Money | ||
2220 | Nail | Objects | ||
2223 | Scruffiness | Appearance |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2214 | Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Hierarchical |