Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
1906 Photograph Objects
3737 Photograph Art
4211 Physical disability Body
2193 Piano Objects
2531 Pigeons Animals
2251 Pigs Animals
5687 Pillow Objects
2093 Pine knots Objects
1797 Pipe Objects
587 Pistol Objects
5645 Pitcher Objects
1947 Place Supernatural
1702 Place name Naming
4440 Plane accident Death
4095 Plant mint Objects
4045 Plat Texts
2113 Playfulness Character
2553 Plow Objects
1897 Poetry Art
5004 Poetry Texts
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

1532 Poison Objects
1827 Pokeberry juice Objects
2462 Pony Animals
3437 Populace Community
4604 Popularity Character
2197 Porcelain Objects
2075 Portmanteau Objects
2083 Posse Community
5303 Possum Animals
3189 Post-war Exile
5095 Poster Texts
2080 Power Character
761 Power of Art
712 Power of literature Philosophical
3641 Precision Character
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

816 Predatory Character
1401 Pregnancy Body
3008 Prehistory Past
3518 Preparing for death Death
2429 Preserving order Community
3762 Pretending / Feigning Appearance
1235 Pride Character
2648 Principle Character
3865 Prize value Money
3979 Profound Meaning
3886 Progenitive / Self-reproductive Philosophical
5242 Promissory note Money
2411 Promotional Naming
4547 Property Inheritance
2195 Propriety Values
4528 Prosthetic Body
2186 Protest Morals
2406 Providence Values
2368 Provincialism Character
387 Psychological (First level term)
4903 Purity Character
1052 Quail Animals
3530 Quarter coin Money
4671 Quest to recover Past
5230 Quest to recover Absence/Loss
889 Quilt Objects
717 Rabbit Animals
925 Raccoon Animals
1719 Race horse Animals
4836 Racial Absence/Loss
4242 Racialized Appearance
2737 Rake Objects
1535 Rat Animals
4619 Rationalizing Psychological
588 Razor Objects
5431 Reactionary Character
2626 Reality Recurring Tropes
1814 Recent past Past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)

2235 Recklessness Character
1297 Recovery Money
2946 Recovery Recurring Tropes
388 Recurring Tropes (First level term)
4800 Red necks Absence/Loss
4801 Red necks Appearance
3125 Redemption Philosophical
3902 Reduction / summing up Philosophical
2883 Refinement Values
2152 Refund Money
2308 Regal Character
3537 Reliability Character
2862 Relics Past
995 Relocation Arrivals/Departures
856 Remembering Memory
640 Remembering passim Memory
1806 Reminiscence Story-telling
1417 Renaming Naming

When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR

707 Renewal Absence/Loss
5621 Renouncing Inheritance
3013 Repetition Past
4224 Repression Psychological
2649 Reputation Character
2108 Resolve Character
3861 Respect Death

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