Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
3838 Cultural Issues Crime Prevention
2986 Cultural Issues Crime Prostitution
5282 Cultural Issues Crime Racialized
4634 Cultural Issues Crime Rape
4938 Cultural Issues Crime Sedition
592 Cultural Issues Crime Theft|Robbery
4939 Cultural Issues Crime Treason
1747 Cultural Issues Crime Vagrancy
1424 Cultural Issues Crime Vigilantism

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR
4780 Cultural Issues Crime Voter fraud
2001 Cultural Issues Crime Waistcoat
1730 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity America and opportunity
3195 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity American
5375 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity And nationality
2447 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Anglophile
3661 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Country vs city
4698 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Jewish
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
3207 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Multiculturalism
1896 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity North vs South
4745 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Outlander
2388 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Puritan
4849 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Savagism
3663 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Southern identity
4819 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Trans-regional
2232 Themes and Motifs Death Afterlife
4747 Themes and Motifs Death Ambiguous circumstances
4428 Themes and Motifs Death And inheritance
2082 Themes and Motifs Death Animal bear
2073 Themes and Motifs Death Animal Dog
2910 Themes and Motifs Death Animal horse
4535 Themes and Motifs Death Animal mule
3099 Themes and Motifs Death Anticipation of death
2911 Themes and Motifs Death Bones
2265 Themes and Motifs Death Burial
1350 Themes and Motifs Death Car accident
4997 Themes and Motifs Death Child
1790 Themes and Motifs Death Coffin
3721 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to living
3842 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to sleep
1788 Themes and Motifs Death Corpse
3332 Themes and Motifs Death Death by water / Drowning
2980 Themes and Motifs Death Death sentence
2257 Themes and Motifs Death Deathbed
4462 Themes and Motifs Death Denial
4408 Themes and Motifs Death Disease
3841 Themes and Motifs Death Dying wish
4335 Themes and Motifs Death Epitaph
2699 Themes and Motifs Death Eulogy
988 Themes and Motifs Death Execution
931 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral
3717 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral pyre / cremation
844 Themes and Motifs Death Future
2878 Themes and Motifs Death Hearse
4677 Themes and Motifs Death Imagined
1349 Themes and Motifs Death In childbirth
985 Themes and Motifs Death Indian burial practices
3917 Themes and Motifs Death Killing oneself slowly
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
3303 Themes and Motifs Death Like death
3419 Themes and Motifs Death Liminal

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
4790 Themes and Motifs Death Moving a dead body
2229 Themes and Motifs Death Murder
5352 Themes and Motifs Death Of parent
4440 Themes and Motifs Death Plane accident
3518 Themes and Motifs Death Preparing for death
3861 Themes and Motifs Death Respect
945 Themes and Motifs Death Response to
4746 Themes and Motifs Death Spousal
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
4886 Themes and Motifs Death Suspicious
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP
2270 Aesthetics Description Animate/Inanimate
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze
3583 Aesthetics Description Color brown
3822 Aesthetics Description Color gray
3786 Aesthetics Description Color green
4075 Aesthetics Description Color lilac
4507 Aesthetics Description Color maroon
3584 Aesthetics Description Color of leaf tobacco
3961 Aesthetics Description Color pink
4508 Aesthetics Description Color purple
3144 Aesthetics Description Color red
3897 Aesthetics Description Color white
3873 Aesthetics Description Color yellow
3421 Aesthetics Description Delayed decoding

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
1204 Aesthetics Description Eyes
5243 Aesthetics Description Grotesque
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
4215 Aesthetics Description Location portrait
3056 Aesthetics Description Stage direction
1973 Aesthetics Description Tableau
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
4741 Themes and Motifs Determinism And an animal
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
5114 Themes and Motifs Determinism Gendered

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