Actions: Verbal Gossip
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
- 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
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›America and opportunity
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Education›Yale | Gender›Bachelor | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Femininity | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent | Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass | Psychological›Manipulation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Interaction, Social›Peer group | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Community›Social life
Relationships: Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile-mask
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Body›Face
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Mass Media›Fantasy | Mass Media›Movies
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Relationships: Familial›Orphan | Familial›Uncertain relationship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration passim
Cultural Issues: Crime›Forgery | Education›Dropping out
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Community›Knowledge
Actions: Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Gaining weight | Communication›Letter | Emotional›Pity | Verbal›Gossip
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Isolation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Threatening
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Making whisky
Relationships: Familial›Mentorship
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Painting|Drawing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Actions: Communication | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Identity, Cultural›Yankee | Politics›Presidential administration | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Wilson, Woodrow
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Weak heart | War›Draft | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Noncombatant
Environment: Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Dirty girl | Gender›Double standard | Religion›Damnation
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Master-servant | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical advice
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Locust | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Food preparation | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Fox | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Flowers
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Health and Illness›Growth | Modernity›Speed
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Buying timber | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Verbal›Discussion | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Car | Movement›Truck | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Showing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Negro-lover | Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Crowds
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Actions: Communication›Telegraph | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Instructing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Jail | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›Saturday
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›House | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Tuesday
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Supper table | Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Jail | Public›Town Square
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Sheriff's office | Public›Restaurant | Public›Street | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Looking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Hitting
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Church
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Standing | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Dread | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Religion
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Quitting job
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Monday morning
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Sheriff
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table
Environment: Time of Day›Four o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Monday morning
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Loyalty | War›Civil War consequences
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Race›Friendly interaction
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse | Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: War›Casualties of war | War›Civil War
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Shirtsleeves | Clothes›Sunday clothes
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Relationships: Marital›Desertion | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Year›Saturday
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Secrecy
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Year›Saturday
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Time of Year›Monday
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Sunday
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Quitting job
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Quitting job
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›Boss-employee
Environment: Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Note | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Refusing | Violent›Beating | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Charity | Verbal›Gossip
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
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›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict | Sexual›Inappropriate
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Uncharitable
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Public›Barber shop
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Gossip | Violent›Beating | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Communication›Censorship | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Crime›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Traveling salesman
Cultural Issues: Law›Trespassing
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Politics›Election | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Objects›Ax | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cuba | Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Narrative›Communal narrative
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder | Technology›Car | Violence›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Hearse | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Values›Propriety
Actions: Economic›Blacksmithing | Economic›Purchase | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Natural›Fire | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Burning | Physical›Extinguishing fire | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Fireman
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Material | Art›Painting | Community›Crowd | Money | Objects›Chair | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Government›Audit
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Interaction, Social›Dances | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Relationships: Social›Social organizations
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Cultural Issues: Gender›Southern woman | War›Reconstruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Conformity | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals