Actions: Verbal Speculation
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Badgering
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- 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
- 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
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- 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
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Narrative›Gaps
Actions: Verbal›Speculation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Past | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation
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: Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Speculation
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