Actions: Physical Protection
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambush
- Apprehending
- Bathing
- Being pursued
- Breaking
- Building
- Burial
- Burning
- Camping
- Capture
- Carrying
- 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
- 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
Actions: Physical›Protection
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Actions: Physical›Protection
Aesthetics: Diction›Southern dialect
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Fear | Legal›Locking up | Physical›Protection | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Actions: Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Actions: Moral›Blackmail | Physical›Protection
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Love letter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed
Actions: Interaction, Private›Assist | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Rite of passage | Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Character›Responsibility | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister | Familial›Surrogate | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Crime›Penalty for | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Determinism›Fated | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Overhearing | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Youth vs age | Identity, Personal›Family role
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Character›Responsibility | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale | Story-telling›Family oral tradition
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Sister-sister | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Confused din | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Communication›Without words | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Speech | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Institutional | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community›Preserving order | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Values›Moral authority | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Institutional›Minister and parishioner | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Diction›Accent | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Mental›Believing | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Moral›Judgmental | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Gender›Work
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Character›Responsibility | Home›Estranged | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Obligation | Marital›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Environment: Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Teasing
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Atmospheric›Smoke | Atmospheric›Torch-light | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Interaction, Social›Social protest | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Protection | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Shouting | Violent
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Social Shaming | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Style›Long sentence
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Riding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | Gender›Women as sacred | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Opinion | Community›Supportive | Morals›Honor | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Potential | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Balance | Character›Cautious | Character›Recklessness | Time›Cyclical | Time›Measuring time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Emotional›Betrayal | Mental›Calculation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Death by water / Drowning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Character›Forbearance | Death›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Movies
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Physical›Protection | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Natural›River | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Meddling | Physical›Protection | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Sick as euphemism for pregnancy | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Cousin | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Allusion, Mythical›Gods | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Auditory›Insect sounds | Time of Year›August | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Patriarchy | Gender›Women | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Father-son