Actions: Emotional Surprise
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Amazement
- Ambivalence
- Anger
- Anguish
- Annoyed
- Anticipation
- Anxiety
- Apathy
- Attraction
- Betrayal
- Bewilderment
- Callousness
- Calm
- Caring
- Coldness
- Comforting
- Confident
- Contempt
- Cruelty
- Crying
- Curious
- Cynicism
- Defeat
- Defiance
- Dementia
- Denial
- Despair
- Detachment
- Disappointment
- Disgust
- Dread
- Embarrassment
- Empathy
- Exasperation
- Excitement
- Exhaustion
- Expecting
- Exultation
- Fascination
- Fear
- Frustration
- Fury
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Guilt
- Happy
- Hate
- Hero worship
- Homesickness|Longing for home
- Hope
- Horror
- Humiliation
- Hurried
- Hurting
- Hysteria
- Impatience
- Incredulity
- Indecision
- Indifference
- Indignation
- Inferiority
- Intimidation
- Introspective
- Intuition
- Jealousy
- Joy
- Laughing
- Longing
- Love
- Lust
- Moaning
- Mourning
- Nostalgia
- Numbness
- Nurturing
- Outrage
- Overwhelmed
- Panic
- Passivity
- Patience
- Peace
- Petulance
- Pity
- Possessiveness
- Practicality
- Proud
- Rage
- Reassurance
- Rebelliousness
- Recovery
- Refusal
- Regret
- Relief
- Repentance
- Resentment
- Resignation
- Respect
- Restlessness
- Sadness
- Satisfaction
- Scolding
- Seduction
- Self-consciousness
- Self-doubt
- Self-pity
- Selfishness
- Shame
- Shock
- Stubbornness
- Sulking
- Suspicion
- Sympathy
- Terror
- Theatricality
- Tolerance
- Tragic / tragedy
- Triumph
- Vengeful
- Vindictive
- Waiting
- Worry
Tagged Events
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Otherworldly | Time of Day›Midday | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Coldness | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Insight | Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Misreading | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Invitation | Verbal›Requesting
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Race›Using a Negro as messenger
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Language›Archaic | Narrative›Reported narration | Narrative›Withholding | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Secrecy
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Law›Compensation | Mass Media›Graphophone
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Midnight
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Crime›Grave robbing | Crime›Interruption
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Emotional›Surprise | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall | Place›Orphanage
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Bodily›Recoiling | Economic›Bribing | Emotional›Outrage | Emotional›Shock | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Thinking | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Whispering
Themes and Motifs: Money›Silver dollar | Objects›Toothpaste
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Truck | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Friday
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Risque
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Civic records
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Public›Street
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Address to reader
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Race›Solidarity | Race›Stereotype cannibalism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Time›Awareness of time
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Stock trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Investing | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Moral›Purification | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Negotiation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Surprise | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Respectability | Gender›Idealization | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility