Actions: Verbal Gossip
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- Chanting
- Chatter
- Code-switching / Change in dialect
- Command
- Complaining
- Confession
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- 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
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- Refusing
- 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
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- 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 | 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
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
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Environment: Time of Year›June
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Master-servant | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical advice
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: 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›Deaf | Mass Media›Newspaper
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Buying timber | Verbal›Gossip
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
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