Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1115 | Justice | Values | ||
| 1137 | Justice | Morals |
When explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
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| 5681 | Kettle | Objects | ||
| 2342 | Keys | Objects | ||
| 2454 | Keys | Objects | ||
| 4905 | Killing first deer/marked with blood | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3917 | Killing oneself slowly | Death | ||
| 1141 | Kinlessness | Absence/Loss |
I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW |
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| 3573 | Knee | Body | ||
| 1395 | knife | Objects | ||
| 4136 | Knowledge | Community | ||
| 1347 | Lack of choice | Determinism | ||
| 4642 | Lacking | Money | ||
| 3971 | Ladder | Objects | ||
| 3506 | Lamp or lantern | Objects | ||
| 4483 | Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2681 | Lawnmower | Objects | ||
| 2683 | Laziness | Character | ||
| 2206 | Learning disability | Psychological | ||
| 2656 | Leaving | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 2094 | Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 1731 | Ledger | Texts | ||
| 4933 | Left for dead | Death | ||
| 3992 | Legs | Body | ||
| 788 | Letter | Objects | ||
| 1705 | Letter of protest | Texts | ||
| 1343 | Letters | Texts | ||
| 1695 | Liberty | Values | ||
| 3920 | Librarian look | Appearance | ||
| 5597 | License Plate | Objects | ||
| 1352 | Life as repetition | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1222 | Lightning bugs | Animals | ||
| 3303 | Like death | Death | ||
| 3419 | Liminal | Death |
For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP |
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| 3833 | Limitations of words / language | Meaning | ||
| 2795 | Lion | Animals | ||
| 3990 | Lips | Body | ||
| 4670 | Lithographs | Art | ||
| 3271 | Little sister | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1968 | Livestock | Absence/Loss | ||
| 1812 | Living in the present | Time |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
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| 3382 | Local legends | Community |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
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| 2455 | Locks | Objects | ||
| 3621 | Long name | Naming | ||
| 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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| 3270 | Longing for death | Death | ||
| 1999 | Loot | Money | ||
| 3826 | Losing vs never having | Absence/Loss |
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP |
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| 2089 | Loss of animal companion | Absence/Loss | ||
| 3132 | Loss of innocence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 2450 | Loss of object | Absence/Loss | ||
| 2216 | Lost | Money | ||
| 4368 | Lost time | Time | ||
| 1583 | Love | Values | ||
| 2721 | Love letter | Texts | ||
| 510 | Loyalty | Values | ||
| 4660 | Loyalty | Morals | ||
| 2272 | Luck | Philosophical | ||
| 3700 | Luggage | Objects | ||
| 1454 | Luxury | Money | ||
| 2717 | Machine gun | Objects | ||
| 1310 | Madness | Psychological | ||
| 4703 | Magazine | Texts | ||
| 5139 | Magazine | Objects | ||
| 2249 | Magnet | Objects | ||
| 3589 | Male body | Body | ||
| 1807 | Manipulation | Psychological | ||
| 4044 | Map | Texts | ||
| 4767 | Map | Objects | ||
| 2518 | Marble columns | Objects | ||
| 4278 | Matchstick | Objects | ||
| 871 | Material | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4457 | Maternity | Meaning | ||
| 1107 | Maturity | Character | ||
| 2659 | Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4289 | Maybe as concept | Meaning | ||
| 381 | Meaning | (First level term) | ||
| 5407 | Meaning of | Money | ||
| 2378 | Meaninglessness | Meaning | ||
| 3515 | Measuring time | Time | ||
| 2718 | Medal | Objects | ||
| 2622 | Mediation | Recurring Tropes |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
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| 460 | Memory | (First level term) | ||
| 805 | Men | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4339 | Mental disability | Body | ||
| 4118 | Metal detector | Objects | ||
| 1324 | Metaphorical elephant | Animals | ||
| 3509 | Metaphysics | Philosophical | ||
| 4666 | Mice | Animals | ||
| 3023 | Military communications | Texts | ||
| 3188 | Military defeat | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4626 | Military equipment | Objects | ||
| 2497 | Milk | Objects | ||
| 2629 | Mirror | Objects | ||
| 3160 | Misinterpretation | Meaning | ||
| 5154 | Misogyny | Values | ||
| 4148 | Missing | Absence/Loss | ||
| 3245 | Mockingbird | Animals | ||
| 2790 | Moment of | Death | ||
| 382 | Money | (First level term) |