Actions: Verbal Self-justifying
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
- 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
- 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
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Work | Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Marital›Forced
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Comforting | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying | Verbal›Swearing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black foresight | Race›Racial consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Loyalty | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Verbal›Self-justifying
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Refusal | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Economy›Poverty | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Southern woman | Gender›War | Prejudice›Racism | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Death›Of parent | Morals›Injustice | Objects›Sword | Values›Courage | Values›Family honor | Values›Honor | Values›Valor
Relationships: Familial›Exigent circumstances | Familial›Orphan | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Anaphora | Language›Biblical | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Repetition | Style›List | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Fire | Tone›Apocalyptic | Tone›Ironic | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Moral›Judgmental | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Respectability | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Character›Naivety | Meaning›Misinterpretation | Psychological›Denial | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Parent-child | Romantic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person | Tone›Sarcastic
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Confession | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Economy›Bargaining
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Corpse | Psychological›Manipulation | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fish | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Death›Denial | Meaning›Maternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Mother-son | Interspecies›Man-fish | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Self-doubt | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental illness | Violence›Ambush
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Capture as loss | Recurring Tropes›Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes›Sending someone to Jackson
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Coercion | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Parent-child
Environment: Auditory›Music | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Movement›Walking | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Law›Plead guilty/not guilty | Law›Sheriff
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Legal›Testifying | Legal›Trial | Mental›Remembering | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Self-justifying
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Uncharitable
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Desire
Actions: Emotional›Self-consciousness | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Self-justifying
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Driving to Goodwin's
Actions: Verbal›Self-justifying
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Rationalizing
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Hat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Self-justifying
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses