Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 297 | Slaves vs poor whites | Slavery | ||
| 2999 | Sleeping pill | Health and Illness | ||
| 4505 | Smallpox | Health and Illness | ||
| 3780 | Smoke stack | Progress | ||
| 4743 | Smoking habit | Health and Illness | ||
| 1357 | Snopesism | Class | ||
| 2988 | Sobriety | Alcohol | ||
| 4978 | Social | Progress | ||
| 5600 | Social decline | Class | ||
| 3452 | Social mobility | Class | ||
| 2107 | Social Shaming | Group Mentality | ||
| 275 | Social value | Slavery | ||
| 2456 | Social welfare as substitute | Religion | ||
| 1358 | Socio-economic | Prejudice | ||
| 2885 | Socks | Clothes | ||
| 4781 | Soda | Food | ||
| 1176 | Soil quality | Agriculture | ||
| 709 | Soldier | Identity, Personal | ||
| 2585 | Solidarity | Race |
Whenever characters feel a relationship or shared purpose with another character due to racial affinity. In the specific example, Lucius imagines that Ned and Minnie have some type of relationship because they are both African-American (117). JB |
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| 3180 | South vs North | Identity, Cultural | ||
| 327 | Southern curse | Slavery | ||
| 3663 | Southern identity | Cultural Identity | ||
| 3028 | Southern secession | History | ||
| 4233 | Southern stereotype | Identity, Cultural | ||
| 924 | Southern woman | Gender | ||
| 3360 | Souvenir | Materialism | ||
| 2142 | Spanish American War | War | ||
| 5355 | Spanish Civil War | History | ||
| 4023 | Spectacles | Clothes | ||
| 2289 | Speed | Modernity |
Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB |
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| 541 | Spinsterhood | Age | ||
| 1634 | Spiritual | Land-Use | ||
| 1487 | Spoils | War | ||
| 731 | Sports | Clothes | ||
| 1014 | Spousal privilege | Law | ||
| 3004 | State capital | Government | ||
| 5517 | State government | Government | ||
| 3026 | State laws and regulations | Government | ||
| 2059 | Status | Materialism |
Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers. |
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| 1258 | Status, low | Class | ||
| 3533 | Steam locomotive | Technology | ||
| 5511 | Steamboats | Technology | ||
| 3647 | Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity | Race | ||
| 1124 | Stereotype cannibalism | Race | ||
| 872 | Stereotype eyes | Race | ||
| 3939 | Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Gender | ||
| 4566 | Stereotype lower intelligence | Race | ||
| 1499 | Stereotype mule | Race | ||
| 4584 | Stereotype Superstitious | Race | ||
| 991 | Stereotype sweat | Race | ||
| 837 | Stereotype: smell | Race | ||
| 1940 | Stereotype: teeth | Race | ||
| 4319 | Stockings | Clothes | ||
| 2546 | Stolen valor | War |
Whenever someone claims to have fought in a war, but it is implied that he (always he) did not do so. This comes up quite a bit in Faulkner. JB |
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| 4022 | Store clothes | Clothes | ||
| 5334 | Store-bought vs moonshine | Alcohol | ||
| 1460 | Strategy | War |
Although technically strategy and tactics are two different elements of war, for the time being they have been collapsed into the same keyword unless there are really nuanced discussions of either in Faulkner. JB |
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| 3868 | Streetcar line | Progress | ||
| 4708 | Streetcars | Technology | ||
| 2934 | Stroke | Health and Illness | ||
| 4689 | Subpoena | Law | ||
| 3694 | Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race | ||
| 4589 | Subverting a stereotype | Race | ||
| 4352 | Sugar | Food | ||
| 2097 | Suit | Clothes | ||
| 1034 | Sunday clothes | Clothes | ||
| 5288 | Sunday school | Religion | ||
| 1047 | Sunday shoes | Clothes | ||
| 476 | Supernatural | (First level term) | ||
| 3045 | Surgery | Health and Illness | ||
| 3046 | Surgical castration | Health and Illness | ||
| 763 | Surrender | War | ||
| 3187 | Surrender at Appomattox | History | ||
| 4929 | Tartan | Clothes | ||
| 3458 | Taste | Gender | ||
| 1216 | Taxes | Politics | ||
| 4724 | Taxes, local | Government | ||
| 1665 | Technological | Progress | ||
| 446 | Technology | (First level term) | ||
| 2774 | Teetotaling | Alcohol |
Teetotaling as a cultural issue or as a personal moral or habitual choice. This is different than "teetotaler" under character, which is the defining character trait of that person. The example here is Minnie in The Reivers who works in a brothel, but is a teetotaler because she is a "damn christian scientist or republican or something" (153). In this sense, it is not her defining character trait. JB |
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| 4496 | Telegraph | Progress | ||
| 5384 | Telegraph | Technology | ||
| 801 | Telephone | Mass Media | ||
| 2279 | Telephone | Technology | ||
| 1664 | Television | Technology | ||
| 3034 | Television | Entertainment | ||
| 524 | Tenantry|Share-cropping | Economy |
There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR |
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| 4203 | Tennis shoes | Clothes | ||
| 4602 | Territory | Law | ||
| 574 | Testimony | Law | ||
| 1155 | The South | Region |
When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW |
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| 1574 | The West | Region | ||
| 592 | Theft|Robbery | Crime | ||
| 2443 | Tie | Clothes | ||
| 3799 | Toddy | Alcohol | ||
| 4356 | Torture | Violence | ||
| 1592 | Totem | Religion | ||
| 2832 | Tourism | Hunting and Fishing |
Tourism generated by annual hunting and fishing seasons. JB |
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| 4137 | Town v. country/farm | Class | ||
| 5627 | Tractor | Progress |