Actions: Verbal Ordering
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
- Interruption
- Invitation
- Joking
- Listen
- Lying
- Marriage proposal
- Message
- Misspeaking
- Monologue
- Moralizing
- Mumbling
- Naming self
- Negotiation
- News
- Omission
- 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
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Public›Alley | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
Environment: Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Religion›Rebirth
Relationships: Social›Adversarial
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Hysteria | Movement›Car | Movement›Traffic | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Themes and Motifs: Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Place›Cemetery | Public›Town Square
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Vest | Cultural Identity›American | Entertainment›Radio
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Place›Jail | Public›Street | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat | Verbal›Warning
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Natural›Creek
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Physical›Undressing | Verbal›Ordering
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bed | Objects›Dresser | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Photograph | Objects›Quilt
Relationships: Interracial›Etiquette
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Pocahontas | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
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
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Day›Lunch
Environment: Public›Restaurant | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Believing | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Official office
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Religion›Church service | Violence›Male-female
Environment: Public›Filling Station
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Hungering | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Ordering | Verbal›Threat
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Alcohol›Beer | Alcohol›Gin | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shoes | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Men vs women | Sexuality›Perverse | Sexuality›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Ordering
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Aesthetics: Language›eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Field | Time of Day›Afternoon
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Supper
Themes and Motifs: Character›Indomitable | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Shotgun
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Stubbornness | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal fine
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Driven away
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Prices | Entertainment›Movies
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Ordering
Cultural Issues: Progress›Mail delivery
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption