Actions: Verbal Interruption
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Badgering
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- Calling by name
- Chanting
- Chatter
- Code-switching / Change in dialect
- Command
- Complaining
- Confession
- Congratulating
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- Debating
- Defining
- Demanding
- Denial
- Dialogue
- Disagreeing
- Discussion
- Eloquence
- Esoteric language
- Exaggeration
- Explaining
- Family history
- Flattery
- Flirting
- Garrulousness
- Giving advice
- Gossip
- Haggling
- Honor
- Howling
- Hushing
- Instructing
- Insulting
- Invitation
- Joking
- Listen
- Lying
- Marriage proposal
- Message
- Misspeaking
- Monologue
- Moralizing
- Mumbling
- Naming self
- Negotiation
- News
- Omission
- Ordering
- Persuasion
- Planning
- Praising
- Praying
- Preaching
- Predicting
- Promising
- Provoking
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- Refusing
- Renunciation
- Repetition
- Requesting
- Responding
- Reticence
- Revealing
- Rhetorical question
- Rumor
- Screaming
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- Singing
- Social criticism
- Speculation
- Speech
- Stating intent to leave home / run away
- Storytelling
- Stuttering / stammering
- Swearing
- Talking
- Taunt
- Teasing
- Telling
- Thanking
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Writing
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Education›University of Mississippi
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence | Slavery›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas
Relationships: Familial›Interracial | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Revision | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
Actions: Physical›Reading | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Health and Illness›Growth | Health and Illness›Indian medicine
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being on time / punctuality
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Quietness | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Caring | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Actions: Mental›Reinterpretation | Verbal›Interruption
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Government›Bureaucracy | Race›White race | Slavery›Southern curse
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Cultural›South vs North
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Actions: Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Economic›Buying timber | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Shouting
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hollywood | Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Narrative›Contested
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Themes and Motifs: Body›Pregnancy | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male domination
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation