Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1852 | Commentary | Narrative | ||
| 586 | Communal narrative | Narrative | ||
| 5208 | Compson land acquired | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5207 | Compsons sell pasture | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5058 | Confederate monument unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5213 | Confederate raid in Memphis | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 3568 | Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical |
I added this to account for a Biblical allusion ("Benjamin child of mine old age") that seems to have several possible Old Testament sources, representing a kind of conflating of those sources. JBP |
|
| 1016 | Conjectural narration | Narrative |
This is the term I came up with to describe situations where the narrator (I was thinking mainly of anonymous narrators) uses phrases like "perhaps," "probably," "might," "maybe" to weaken the certainty or authority of what's being narrated. Where, that is, the narrator hedges his bets. JW |
|
| 5019 | Conrad, Joseph | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3280 | Contemporary slang | Language | ||
| 3088 | Contested | Narrative |
I created this to capture scenes when two or more characters interrupt each other's attempt to create a narrative - specifically, in the context of the way Gavin (and sometimes the Governor) seize on parts of Temple's story that she would rather not dwell on. SR |
|
| 1470 | Conversation with oneself | Narrative | ||
| 4568 | Coolidge, Calvin | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1877 | Cooper, James Fenimore | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4379 | Corinth, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2864 | Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4093 | Coupled | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3892 | Coventry, England | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1715 | Created by characters | Symbolism | ||
| 2670 | Creditor | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1885 | Crucifixion | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 2165 | Crusades | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2144 | Cuba | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1959 | Cubism | Style | ||
| 5523 | Cumberland County, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3051 | Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4612 | Cyclical | Narrative | ||
| 1686 | Damocles sword | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3851 | Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5436 | Das Kapital | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5007 | Dash | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 2662 | Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5481 | Daymond | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3552 | De Soto, Hernando | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5069 | De Spain creates camp | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5223 | Dead-eye Dick | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3516 | Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1688 | Debunking story | Interpretation | ||
| 5661 | DeFrance, Abraham | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4446 | Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech |
Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary. |
|
| 3421 | Delayed decoding | Description |
Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR |
|
| 1751 | Delayed revelation | Narrative |
Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later. |
|
| 3484 | Delilah | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1890 | Demon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 2458 | Demosthenes | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5624 | Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction | ||
| 1099 | Description | (First level term) | ||
| 2374 | Desert island | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4749 | Detective fiction | Genre Conventions | ||
| 3281 | Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 5467 | Dickens, Charles | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3782 | Dickinson, Emily | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3230 | Dickson | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 407 | Diction | (First level term) | ||
| 1698 | Dillinger, John | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5245 | Dionysus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1902 | Disease | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4868 | Disruption | Narrative | ||
| 1930 | Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1936 | Djinn | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5562 | Doddsville, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2387 | Don Juan | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4302 | Don Quixote | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4527 | Donne, John | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5039 | Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 1308 | Dots | Typography/Orthography |
This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR |
|
| 849 | Double entendre | Diction | ||
| 2189 | Dragon's teeth | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3511 | Drained marsh | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3759 | Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4520 | Drawing of an eye | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 5010 | Drawing of delta | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 3460 | Dreiser, Theodore | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5063 | Driving to Goodwin's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 4393 | Duke John of Lorraine | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1878 | Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3295 | Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3236 | Dunquerque | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5674 | Duse, Eleonora | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5429 | East Lynne | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4633 | eeeeeeeeeeeeeee | Language | ||
| 4518 | Egypt | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4492 | Einstein, Albert | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2032 | Electricity | Figures of Speech | ||
| 742 | Elegiac | Tone | ||
| 3158 | Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5637 | Ellipses | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 1425 | Ellipsis | Language | ||
| 1049 | Embedded text, cursive | Intertextuality |
This term was created In reference to the names "George Wilkins" and "Nathalie Beauchamp" written by hand on the wedding license in "Point of Law." JW |
|
| 1180 | Embedded text, lettering | Intertextuality | ||
| 3912 | Embroidery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3218 | Emperor Maximilian | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2707 | England | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1637 | Epiphany | Narrative | ||
| 3220 | Erinys | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5047 | Etching name on window | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 3927 | Ethnic slur | Diction | ||
| 4088 | Euboeleus / Eubuleus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5071 | Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5442 | Europe | Allusion, Geographical |