Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 316 | Minstrelsy | Slavery |
Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR |
|
| 5653 | Milk | Food | ||
| 2414 | Militia muster | Government | ||
| 4784 | Military service | War |
Whenever a character did or did not serve in the military during war. In this case, it is Redmond in The Unvanquished (225), but another example is Percy Grimm. JHB |
|
| 4274 | Military reassignment | War | ||
| 3708 | Military rank of general | War | ||
| 4226 | Military education | Education | ||
| 4228 | Military awards | War | ||
| 2682 | Military | Clothes | ||
| 1089 | Migration | (First level term) | ||
| 308 | Middle passage | Slavery | ||
| 4420 | Middle age | Age | ||
| 624 | Middle | Class | ||
| 5351 | Mexican Rebellion | History | ||
| 2861 | Mexican | War | ||
| 2106 | Methodism | Religion | ||
| 281 | Metaphorical | Slavery |
Used to flag the passages in which a narrator or a non-enslaved character uses "slavery" metaphorically, to describe something else. Lucas Burch, for instance, complains that his job at the planing mill has him "slaving all day." SR |
|
| 1108 | Mercenary | War | ||
| 1262 | Mentorship | Education | ||
| 721 | Mental limitations | Health and Illness | ||
| 1521 | Mental illness | Health and Illness | ||
| 3945 | Menstruation / menstrual cycle | Gender | ||
| 529 | Menial | Labor | ||
| 638 | Men vs women | Gender | ||
| 3680 | Medicine camphor | Health and Illness | ||
| 4498 | Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness | ||
| 3254 | Medicine | Health and Illness | ||
| 4266 | Medical treatment | Health and Illness | ||
| 1296 | Medical advice | Health and Illness | ||
| 2674 | Meat | Food | ||
| 2924 | Measles | Health and Illness |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1004 | Minstrelsy | Genre Conventions | ||
| 5437 | Milton, John | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3446 | Milton, John | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2156 | Military terminology | Figures of Speech | ||
| 2329 | Military analogy | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5229 | Middle Ages | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3368 | Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative | ||
| 4380 | Mexico | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2130 | Metonym | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1030 | Metaphor | Figures of Speech | ||
| 484 | Metafictional | (First level term) | ||
| 4532 | Messalina | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5474 | Mesopotamia | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3032 | Merging history and fiction | Metafictional | ||
| 5369 | Menelaus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 2372 | Memphis, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5421 | Memphis Junction | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2103 | Melodrama | Genre Conventions | ||
| 2397 | Medical / Surgical | Figures of Speech | ||
| 413 | Media | (First level term) | ||
| 3231 | McLaurin | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5670 | McClellan, George B. | Allusion, Historical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1540 | Minister and parishioner | Institutional | ||
| 776 | Military | Institutional | ||
| 4974 | Military | Interracial | ||
| 1263 | Mentorship | Social | ||
| 1264 | Mentorship | Familial | ||
| 806 | Mentor-disciple | Intergenerational |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3731 | Miners / mining | Work | ||
| 2687 | Mimicking | Physical | ||
| 3797 | Milling | Work | ||
| 5267 | Milking a cow | Agricultural | ||
| 1207 | Milking | Domestic | ||
| 349 | Military | (First level term) | ||
| 2701 | Migration | Movement | ||
| 1502 | Messenger | Communication |
Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person. |
|
| 4305 | Message | Verbal | ||
| 348 | Mental | (First level term) | ||
| 5174 | Menstruation | Bodily | ||
| 5134 | Mending | Domestic | ||
| 3751 | Meddling | Physical | ||
| 2061 | Mechanic | Work |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4984 | Mill | Place | ||
| 5269 | Milk | Olfactory | ||
| 4840 | Military camp | Place | ||
| 2153 | Mild | Weather | ||
| 614 | Midnight | Time of Day | ||
| 3690 | Midday | Time of Day | ||
| 5170 | Mid-week | Time of Year | ||
| 4909 | Meteor shower | Atmospheric | ||
| 589 | Memphis | Place | ||
| 2037 | Medical practice | Place |
Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2497 | Milk | Objects | ||
| 4626 | Military equipment | Objects | ||
| 3188 | Military defeat | Absence/Loss | ||
| 3023 | Military communications | Texts | ||
| 4666 | Mice | Animals | ||
| 3509 | Metaphysics | Philosophical | ||
| 1324 | Metaphorical elephant | Animals | ||
| 4118 | Metal detector | Objects | ||
| 4339 | Mental disability | Body | ||
| 805 | Men | Absence/Loss | ||
| 460 | Memory | (First level term) | ||
| 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 |
|
| 2718 | Medal | Objects | ||
| 3515 | Measuring time | Time | ||
| 2378 | Meaninglessness | Meaning | ||
| 5407 | Meaning of | Money | ||
| 381 | Meaning | (First level term) |