Actions: Verbal Discussion
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
- Eloquence
- Esoteric language
- Exaggeration
- Explaining
- Family history
- Flattery
- Flirting
- Garrulousness
- Giving advice
- Gossip
- Haggling
- Honor
- Howling
- Hushing
- Instructing
- Insulting
- Interruption
- 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: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Law›Legal issue | Law›Spousal privilege | Law›Witness | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Play›Chess | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Store porch
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Community›Opinion | Objects›Tobacco | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Enlistment | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Going to war
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Sexuality›Incest
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Bodily›Running | Movement›Car | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Speculation | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Planning | Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Whispering
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism | Religion›God
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Values›Misogyny
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity | Segregation
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Naming self
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Physical›Bathing | Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Conflict
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Harness strap
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Father-son
Actions: Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Stubbornness | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›House | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Economic›Bootlegging | Interaction, Private›Sexual | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Sexual
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Giving advice
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Windows
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Discussion | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Changing clothes | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Tie
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Naming›Importance of naming
Environment: Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Emotional›Confident | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Study
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Questioning
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Actions: Communication›Note | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Gas station | Public›Road | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends | Social›Neighbor
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Pregnancy | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Hunting horn
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Stable | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Naming›Named for historical figure | Naming›Place name
Relationships: Civic›Postal carrier-community | Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Ku Klux Klan | History›League of Nations | History›Silver Shirts | War›Profiting from war | War›World War I
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Cultural Issues: History›Spanish Civil War | Progress›Air travel
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Character›Inherited traits | Determinism›Fated | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Twins
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Money›Disdaining money
Relationships: Marital›Marriage vs freedom
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Attractiveness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ancient Greeks | Allusion, Historical›Hitler, Adolf | Allusion, Historical›Mussolini, Benito | Allusion, Literary›Bacon, Francis | Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Allusion, Literary›Malraux, Andre | Allusion, Literary›Marlowe, Christopher | Allusion, Literary›Milton, John | Allusion, Literary›Pushkin, Alexander | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Economic basis of racism | Race›Integration
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal advice
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Movement›Car | Perceptual›Investigating | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Domestic Space›Field
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Verbal›Discussion
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Communication›Writing | Verbal›Discussion
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Crime›Gambling | Crime›Prostitution | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Law›Police
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety | Community›Preserving order
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Bewilderment | Emotional›Fascination | Verbal›Discussion
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Character›Reputation | Recurring Tropes›Door
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Verbal›Discussion
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Country store
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Trembling | Emotional›Outrage | Moral›Fraud | Moral›Judgmental | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Food›Race | Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal