Actions: Verbal Speculation
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
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- Singing
- Social criticism
- 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›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dread | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Undressing
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Community›Knowledge
Actions: Economic›Paying | Interaction, Private›Rejection | Verbal›Speculation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Don Quixote
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
Actions: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Interpretation
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Physical›Travel | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Mixed race
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Romantic
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Relationships: Familial | Friendship
Actions: Economic›Buying timber | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Movement›Car | Movement›Truck | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Discovering | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Showing | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing | Violent›Sexual assault
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Group Mentality›Racial solidarity | Race›Negro-lover | Religion›Apotheosis | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Crowds
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Themes and Motifs: Body›Pregnancy | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Speculation
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Government›State laws and regulations | Law›Civil suit
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Waiting | Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Values›Family honor
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Sexuality›Pornography
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Unaware | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Speculation
Relationships: Sexual›Inappropriate
Environment: Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Verbal›Speculation | Work›Store clerk
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee