Actions: Bodily Smelling
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Alimentary
- Asthma
- Barefooted
- Bathing and/or personal hygiene
- Birth / Being born
- Bleeding
- Blinking
- Blushing
- Breastfeeding
- Breathing
- Caressing
- Chewing
- Childbirth
- Choking
- Confessing without words
- Coughing
- Crying
- Decomposition
- Defecation
- Dipping snuff
- Dismemberment
- Drinking
- Drooling
- Dying
- Eating
- Eating breakfast
- Eating supper
- Ejaculating
- Fainting
- Falling
- Fasting
- Feeling pain
- Flatulence
- Gaining weight
- Going to bed
- Grinning
- Groaning
- Healing
- Heart beating
- Hiccups
- Hiding
- Hungering
- Idleness
- Inject
- 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
- Singing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Sleeplessness
- Sleepy
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Spitting
- Squatting
- Standing
- Staring
- Starvation
- Stretching
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Tension
- Thirsting
- Trembling
- Urinating
- Vomiting
- Waking
- Watching
- Weakness
- Work song
Tagged Events
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Morning | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Domestic›Food preparation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring | Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Black incarceration | Race›Stereotype eyes | Race›Subverting a stereotype | Race›White fear
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Olfactory›Evoking memory | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Snow
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Communication›Letter | Communication›Receiving mail | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›New England
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Sensory memory | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Texts›Letters | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Vindictive | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Breaking | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Talking | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Dishes | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Night
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Snoring | Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Honeysuckle | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Bodily›Vomiting | Mental›Fantasizing | Perceptual›Hearing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
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: Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Cedar trees | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Olfactory›Perfume smell
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pigs | Supernatural›Eternity | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Mental›Predicting | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Death | Naming›Renaming | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Comforting | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bottle | Objects›Perfume | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Smelling
Themes and Motifs: Character›Comforter | Recurring Tropes›Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Smelling | Domestic›Washing | Emotional›Comforting | Physical›Bathing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Dusk
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Hotel | Public›Street | Time of Day›Eleven o'clock | Weather›Heat
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Typography/Orthography›Italics