Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
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
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
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3106 Reflection Symbolism

Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP

3805 Reno, Nevada Allusion, Geographical
982 Repetition Narrative
1939 Replica Figures of Speech
2081 Reported narration Narrative

For when a character reports what some other character has told him/her about something that has happened - typically for things that the narrator was not present to see in person. -JBP

4165 Reported narration passim Narrative
4178 Reported narration passim in section Narrative
3369 Resumption of sentence after interruption Narrative
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2893 Reform Moral
1781 Refusal Emotional
3128 Refusing Verbal
5165 Regaining consciousness Bodily
2305 Regret Emotional
4842 Reinterpretation Mental
4223 Rejection Interaction, Private
4053 Release of prisoner Legal
4005 Relief Emotional
3813 Remarriage Legal
1150 Remembering Mental
1922 Renounce Moral
1192 Renting Economic
4956 Renunciation Verbal
1819 Repair Physical
2788 Repentance Emotional
4010 Repetition Verbal
2917 Repression Mental
1919 Requesting Verbal
4384 Rescue Military
4610 Rescuing Physical
1972 Resentment Emotional
3115 Resignation Emotional
2086 Respect Emotional
4083 Responding Verbal
1844 Restauranteer Work
1566 Restlessness Emotional
1081 Restraining Violent
1970 Restraining Physical
4003 Retching Bodily
4172 Reticence Verbal
3184 Retreat Military
834 Return Movement
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4715 Reformatory Law
772 Refuge War
4911 Refugee War
246 Region (First level term)
2803 Regional Progress
1534 Regulation Law
5332 Regulations Agriculture
3102 Relationship with God Religion
319 Religion Slavery
1675 Religion Progress
247 Religion (First level term)
5473 Religious Segregation
3273 Religious art or iconography Religion
3074 Religious faith Religion
2533 Renaming Progress

The renaming of a product or object due to modernization. This is different than Themes-> Naming -> Change over time which is related to people. JB

1706 Renovations Progress
4989 Renting housing Economy
322 Reproduction Gender
2576 Republican Politics

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB

1794 Republicanism Politics
1677 Requirements Progress
312 Resistance Slavery

To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR

562 Respectability Class
3331 Resurrection Religion
2658 Reticule Clothes
4028 Retirement Economy
4772 Retreat War
1171 Retrial Law
963 Return War
2633 Return from war War
2686 Return to war War
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3493 Restaurant Public

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