Actions: Verbal Refusing
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
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- Debating
- 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
- Ordering
- Persuasion
- Planning
- Praising
- Praying
- Preaching
- Predicting
- Promising
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- 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
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Manipulative
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Bodily›Recoiling | Economic›Bribing | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Toothpaste
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Bodily›Weakness | Emotional›Peace | Physical›Eating | Physical›Emptying | Verbal›Calling by name | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Lamp or lantern
Relationships: Familial›Adoptive | Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Standing | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Talking
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Money›Collecting money
Environment: Domestic Space›House
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Taunt
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Body›Eyes | Body›Mouth | Money›Lost | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Investing | Mental›Realization | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Fur coat / suit