Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2108 | Resolve | Character | ||
| 3861 | Respect | Death | ||
| 945 | Response to | Death | ||
| 1161 | Responsibility | Morals | ||
| 1226 | Responsibility | Character | ||
| 2631 | Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2416 | Restoring order | Chaos/Order | ||
| 4127 | Retelling | Story-telling | ||
| 576 | Return | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4693 | Return from war | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 1280 | Return home | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 2907 | Return to present time | Time | ||
| 4198 | Return to Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4398 | Reunion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4367 | Revenge | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1721 | Reward | Money | ||
| 1138 | Right | Morals |
As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
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| 5329 | Right-of-way | Recurring Tropes |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
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| 2645 | Ring | Objects | ||
| 5232 | Risque | Story-telling | ||
| 4539 | Rope | Objects | ||
| 3463 | Routine | Time | ||
| 4444 | rubber tree | Objects | ||
| 787 | Run away | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 1995 | Running out | Time | ||
| 2024 | Ruthless | Character | ||
| 3123 | Sacrifice | Values | ||
| 2797 | Saddle | Objects | ||
| 1992 | Saddlebag | Objects | ||
| 4822 | Salt | Objects | ||
| 3124 | Salvation | Philosophical | ||
| 4318 | Satchel | Objects | ||
| 5289 | Saving | Money | ||
| 4516 | Saw | Objects | ||
| 1541 | Scandal | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2145 | Scar | Body | ||
| 5536 | Scholarship | Money | ||
| 4650 | School book | Texts | ||
| 3105 | Scissors | Objects | ||
| 3896 | Scoundrel | Character | ||
| 2223 | Scruffiness | Appearance | ||
| 729 | Sculpture | Art | ||
| 4161 | Scythe | Objects | ||
| 2453 | Searching | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2536 | Second-hand | Objects |
These are items that get passed from person to person and re-purposed. Much of this happens in the Snopes family, but there are also other examples. JB |
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| 573 | Secrecy | Arrivals/Departures |
This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR |
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| 1920 | Secrecy | Community | ||
| 2383 | Secret | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5252 | Self-deception | Character | ||
| 4350 | Self-reliance | Character | ||
| 4478 | Self-righteousness | Character | ||
| 4797 | Selflessness | Values | ||
| 3043 | Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2616 | Sensory experience | Body | ||
| 4004 | Sensory memory | Memory |
When the physical sensation of a particular past event is remembered by a character. BR |
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| 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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| 1741 | Separation | Absence/Loss | ||
| 2964 | Series of events experienced as long duration | Time | ||
| 3255 | Sewing machine | Objects | ||
| 845 | Sexual power | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3064 | Shadows | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5138 | Shaving brush | Objects | ||
| 5176 | Sheep | Animals | ||
| 5486 | Shell | Objects | ||
| 3428 | Ship | Objects | ||
| 1183 | Shotgun | Objects | ||
| 3148 | Shoulder | Body | ||
| 5158 | Shovel | Objects | ||
| 5291 | Showing up | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4365 | Shrewdness | Character | ||
| 2613 | Sickness | Supernatural | ||
| 2877 | Signs / Omen | Supernatural | ||
| 843 | Silver | Objects | ||
| 4120 | Silver dollar | Money | ||
| 4559 | Silverware | Objects | ||
| 1938 | Similarity | Appearance | ||
| 4366 | Simultaneity of time | Time | ||
| 3582 | Skin | Body | ||
| 2863 | Skull | Objects | ||
| 2876 | Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
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| 1455 | Slipper | Objects | ||
| 2998 | Slipping out at night | Arrivals/Departures |
I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP |
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| 5646 | Slop jar | Objects | ||
| 2978 | Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1590 | Snake | Animals | ||
| 4567 | Soap | Objects | ||
| 3020 | Social force | Money | ||
| 676 | Social life | Community | ||
| 4646 | Social order|disorder | Chaos/Order | ||
| 3746 | Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2592 | Solitary | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2030 | Solitude | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2358 | Sophistication | Character | ||
| 2369 | Soul / Spirit | Supernatural | ||
| 2607 | Sound of a gunshot | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3318 | Sparrow | Animals | ||
| 2385 | Spell | Supernatural | ||
| 4746 | Spousal | Death | ||
| 1809 | Squirrel | Animals | ||
| 1527 | Stained glass window | Objects |