Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1383 Overhearing Perceptual
3532 Passing from sight Perceptual
1338 Professional surveillance Perceptual
2176 Reading / Researching Perceptual
936 Seeing Perceptual
3570 Sensing Perceptual
3213 Sensing the past Perceptual
498 Smelling Perceptual
2283 Spying Perceptual

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB

1302 Strip searching Perceptual
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
3993 Sweetness Perceptual
2921 Tasting Perceptual
2922 Tickling Perceptual
2067 Unknowable Perceptual

This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP

552 Voyeurism Perceptual
1726 Watching Perceptual
898 Ambush Physical
1251 Apprehending Physical
2813 Bathing Physical
4855 Being pursued Physical
5186 Breaking Physical
1865 Building Physical
1240 Burial Physical
2870 Burning Physical
4661 Camping Physical
3930 Capture Physical
1952 Carrying Physical
3931 Chase Physical
1059 Chopping wood Physical
2755 Clearing land Physical
3970 Climbing Physical
3140 Climbing stairs Physical
1164 Climbing tree Physical
5168 Climbing/descending rope Physical
5142 Concealing Physical
3154 Confining Physical
1118 Cooking Physical
2250 Crawling Physical
4727 Crowding Physical
3802 Cuddling Physical
1511 Curtsy Physical
5135 Cutting Physical
2131 Dancing Physical
2477 Delivering Physical
1493 Digging Physical
2128 Discovering Physical

For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP

4304 Dragging Physical
2727 Drawing Physical
1880 Dreaming Physical
1376 Dressing Physical
3338 Driving Physical
1867 Eating Physical
2977 Embrace / hugging Physical
5167 Emptying Physical
3041 Escape from confinement Physical
3909 Escaping Physical
3778 Evasion Physical
4251 Extinguishing fire Physical
4607 Fasting Physical
2127 Finding Physical

For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP

2162 Freeing Physical
2789 Gardening Physical
2759 Getting water Physical
1816 Hammering Physical
835 Hanging Physical
839 Hiding Physical
1250 Hitting Physical
2753 Holding Physical
3329 Inaction / Not doing something Physical
2159 Intrusion Physical
1439 Jumping Physical
1980 Kicking Physical
1389 Kissing Physical
3147 Lifting Physical
3363 Loading Physical
3155 Locking a door Physical
3751 Meddling Physical
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
536 Ethics Philosophical
2402 Evolution Philosophical
3350 Existentialism Philosophical
1006 Freedom Philosophical
5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
3520 Human experience Philosophical
1159 Human nature Philosophical
4258 Individualism Philosophical

Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP

3878 Infinity Philosophical
533 Justice Philosophical
2272 Luck Philosophical
3509 Metaphysics Philosophical
2271 Movement Philosophical
2969 Nihilism Philosophical
712 Power of literature Philosophical
3886 Progenitive / Self-reproductive Philosophical
3125 Redemption Philosophical
3902 Reduction / summing up Philosophical
3124 Salvation Philosophical
1223 Suffering Philosophical
3905 Tedious / tedium Philosophical
3832 Unnatural / Contrary to nature Philosophical

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