Actions: Bodily Singing
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Alimentary
- Bathing and/or personal hygiene
- Birth / Being born
- Bleeding
- Blinking
- Blushing
- Breastfeeding
- Breathing
- Chewing
- Childbirth
- Choking
- Confessing without words
- Coughing
- Crying
- Decomposition
- Defecation
- Dipping snuff
- Drinking
- Drooling
- Dying
- Eating
- Eating breakfast
- Eating supper
- Fainting
- Falling
- Fasting
- Feeling pain
- Flatulence
- Gaining weight
- Going to bed
- Grinning
- Groaning
- Healing
- Heart beating
- Hiccups
- Hiding
- Hungering
- Idleness
- Insomnia
- Jumping
- Kissing
- Kneeling
- Laughing
- Limping
- Looking
- Losing consciousness
- Losing weight
- Menstruation
- Miscarriage
- Nausea
- Panting
- Playing music
- Pregnancy
- Recoiling
- Regaining consciousness
- Retching
- Running
- Shaking
- Shaving
- Shivering
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Sleepy
- Smelling
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Spitting
- Squatting
- Standing
- Staring
- Starvation
- Stretching
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Thirsting
- Trembling
- Urinating
- Vomiting
- Waking
- Watching
- Weakness
- Work song
Tagged Events
Environment: Natural›Swamp | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Bodily›Singing | Physical›Apprehending
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Race›Self-abnegation
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Auditory›Haunting | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Race›Racist child
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Child as authority
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Singing | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Stalking | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Terror
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: Labor›Domestic | Race›Racist child | Race›Self-abnegation
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Philosophical›Freedom
Relationships: Marital
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Natural›Moon | Time of Year›Fall
Cultural Issues: History›Reconstruction | Labor›Farming | Land-Use›Cotton farming
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Art›African American music
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-mule
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Homer | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Overwrought
Environment: Atmospheric›Claustrophobic
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›House | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Falling | Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Singing | Bodily›Smoking | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Panting | Physical›Sleeping | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Asphyxiation | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics