Actions: Physical Carrying
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambush
- Apprehending
- Bathing
- Being pursued
- Breaking
- Building
- Burial
- Burning
- Camping
- Capture
- Chase
- Chopping wood
- Clearing land
- Climbing
- Climbing stairs
- Climbing tree
- Climbing/descending rope
- Concealing
- Confining
- Cooking
- Crawling
- Crowding
- Cuddling
- Curtsy
- Cutting
- Dancing
- Delivering
- Digging
- Discovering
- Dragging
- Drawing
- Dreaming
- Dressing
- Driving
- Eating
- Embrace / hugging
- Emptying
- Escape from confinement
- Escaping
- Evasion
- Extinguishing fire
- Fasting
- Finding
- Freeing
- Gardening
- Getting water
- Hammering
- Hanging
- Hiding
- Hitting
- Holding
- Inaction / Not doing something
- Intrusion
- Jumping
- Kicking
- Kissing
- Lifting
- Loading
- Locking a door
- Lying down
- Meddling
- Mimicking
- new item
- Nodding
- Nonverbal taunting or teasing
- Obeying / obedience
- Panting
- Pointing
- Praying
- Probing
- Protection
- Pursuit
- Pushing away
- Questing
- Race
- Reading
- Repair
- Rescuing
- Restraining
- Riding
- Rolling / wallowing
- Running
- Saluting
- Sawing
- Screaming
- Searching
- Showing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Squatting
- Stalking
- Starting fire
- Starting over
- Stomping
- Struggling
- Taking
- Throwing
- Touching
- Trampling
- Transporting
- Travel
- Trembling
- Tripping
- Turning away
- Undressing
- Wagon|Car maintenance
- Waiting
- Walking
- Washing clothes
- Watching
- Wave / waving
- Whistling
- Whittling
- Winking
- Wrestling
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Appearance›Scruffiness | Body›Blood
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Physical›Carrying | Physical›Running | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Vengeance
Themes and Motifs: Death›Denial | Death›Moving a dead body
Aesthetics: Narrative›Child's perspective
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Singing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Crime›Breaking and entering
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Burial | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Rebel yell | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Class›Disruption
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Mental›Realization | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Kicking | Physical›Restraining | Verbal›Screaming
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | Gender›Men vs women | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Purchase
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as presence | Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Assertive | Objects›Phaeton | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Metonym | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Carpentry | Auditory›Sawing | Auditory›Voices | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m.
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Hunting and Fishing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Eyes
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Impatience | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Style›Cubism
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Wee hours
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Movement›Train | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Dressing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Silence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Holding | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Racism | Race›Miscegenation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Looking back | Physical›Carrying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop | Public›Street
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Place›Barn | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Carrying
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Scolding | Movement›Running away | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Taking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Naming›Renaming | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Domestic Space›Stairway | Domestic Space›Upstairs
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Death›Response to | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Nickname | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Upstairs | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Carrying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Complaining | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Nickname | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Dolls | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Scissors | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Labor
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Locking a door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | War›Glorification
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Flowers Roses