Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parent Description
4959 Old Testament Allusion, Biblical
3567 Old Testament Book of Isaiah Allusion, Biblical
3866 Old Testament Book of Proverbs Allusion, Biblical
3712 Old Testament Book of Psalms Allusion, Biblical
3862 Old Testament Book Song of Songs Allusion, Biblical
1963 Onomatopoeia Typography/Orthography
3122 Origin Narrative
4084 Othello Allusion, Literary
2743 Overwrought Tone

This label is as subjective as it is possibly contentious, yet I have created for those instances in which the tone appears too highfalutin, philosophical, or otherwise "fancy" in relation to the subject matter at hand. The specific example, is from The Reivers when Lucius Priest constantly reflects on his younger self in mock-epic fashion to describe his battles with "Virtue". JB

3599 Oxford, England Allusion, Geographical
4371 Oxford, Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
1892 Oxymoron Figures of Speech
2830 Ozarks Allusion, Geographical
5410 Pacific islands Allusion, Geographical
4731 Paine, Thomas Allusion, Literary
4076 Paint Figures of Speech
1889 Painting Metafictional
5260 Pan Allusion, Mythical
5097 Parable Genre Conventions
1687 Parentheses Narrative
4309 Paris Allusion, Geographical
5378 Paris Allusion, Mythical
3494 Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts Allusion, Geographical
3924 Parody Genre Conventions
3769 Parrot Figures of Speech
2586 Parsham Allusion, Geographical
2896 Patch, Dan Allusion, Historical
1423 Pathetic fallacy Figures of Speech
1364 Pause Narrative
3237 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Allusion, Geographical
3875 Pencil Figures of Speech
527 People compared to animals Figures of Speech
3954 Periodical filth Figures of Speech
4087 Persephone Allusion, Mythical
1981 Personification Figures of Speech
2697 Perspective Narrative
4926 Perth Highlands, Scotland Allusion, Geographical
5190 Petronius Allusion, Historical
2836 Peyton, George Allusion, Historical
1121 Pharaoh Allusion, Biblical
5584 Philippines Allusion, Geographical
3514 Philosopher Bergson, Henri Allusion, Historical
2321 Phoenix Allusion, Mythical
2393 Photography Figures of Speech
4400 Pickett's Charge Allusion, Historical
5685 Pickett, George Allusion, Historical
2323 Picture/image Metafictional
4734 Pilate Allusion, Biblical
2647 Pilgrim Figures of Speech
4378 Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
3609 Planets Figures of Speech
5220 Plantation to housing development Recurring Episodes
2392 Planting Figures of Speech
4499 Pocahontas Allusion, Historical
4403 Poe, Edgar Allan Allusion, Literary
3658 Poem "Don Juan" Allusion, Literary
3340 Poem "Kubla Khan" Allusion, Literary
3655 Poem "Marmion" Allusion, Literary
3885 Poem "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" Allusion, Literary
3852 Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Allusion, Literary
3159 Poem "The Waste Land" Allusion, Literary
3565 Poem "The Windhover" Allusion, Literary
5463 Poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Allusion, Literary
3923 Poem/song "The Star-Spangled Banner" Allusion, Literary
4312 Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Allusion, Literary
3724 Poisoned Figures of Speech
5472 Poland Allusion, Geographical
959 Polynesian tribes Allusion, Historical
5671 Pope, John Allusion, Historical
5067 Popeye's execution Recurring Episodes
3243 Popular magazines Allusion, Literary
2954 Porter, Fitz-John Allusion, Historical
3234 Prentiss Allusion, Historical
2507 Present tense Style
2085 Present-time reference Narrative

For when a character switches from past-tense narration (about past events) to refer to the present time and/or how he/she feels "now." -JBP

5008 Priam Allusion, Mythical
2588 Priapus Allusion, Mythical
3699 Princeton University Allusion, Geographical
2291 Profanity Language

Any time a character uses profanity. JB

2371 Projection Metafictional
2853 Przemysl Allusion, Geographical
5427 Ptolemy Allusion, Historical
3654 Puppy Figures of Speech
4337 Purgatory Allusion, Biblical
5462 Pushkin, Alexander Allusion, Literary
2664 Pyramus and Thisbe Allusion, Mythical
3179 Queen Victoria Allusion, Historical
5076 Quentin's suicide Recurring Episodes
2182 Quotation as thought Narrative

For when a text says a character "thinks" or "thought" something - often as a passage in quotation marks but also sometimes in italics. In those cases, perhaps the "Italics" keyword should also be applied. JBP

3534 Rabbit Figures of Speech
5698 Rabelais, Francois Allusion, Literary
705 Racist term Diction
2091 Rain Figures of Speech
2792 Rainey, Paul Allusion, Historical
2840 Rainey, Paul DELETE Allusion, Historical
2828 Raleigh, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
2632 Rape Figures of Speech
4114 Rats Figures of Speech
4904 Rebirth Symbolism
2015 Reconstructed Narrative

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