Actions: Verbal Telling
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
- Speculation
- Speech
- Stating intent to leave home / run away
- Storytelling
- Stuttering / stammering
- Swearing
- Talking
- Taunt
- Teasing
- Thanking
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Writing
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Public›Restaurant
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Milk | Psychological›Trauma
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Canada
Environment: Domestic Space›Veranda | Public›Store
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Making a case
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wet clothes
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Community | Psychological›Trauma
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Perceptual›Experiencing second-hand / vicariously | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Retelling | Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Place›Jefferson | Place›River-bottom | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Food›Scarcity | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Time›Awareness of time | Values›Determination
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Origin
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration passim
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Parentheses
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
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Riding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | Gender›Women as sacred | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Opinion | Community›Supportive | Morals›Honor | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Potential | Social›Adversarial
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Actions: Verbal›Telling | Violent›Killing in war
Cultural Issues: Race›Equal rights | Race›Inequalities | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Relationships: Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Narrative›Summary | Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Environment: Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Husband-wife
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom
Actions: Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Crime›Moonshining
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Movement›Horse | Physical›Digging | Verbal›Telling | Verbal›Warning
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Day›Breakfast
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Orphanage | Time of Year›Christmas
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Religion›Catholicism | Religion›Preacher / Minister
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Common law
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Race›White race
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Obligation
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight | Bodily›Pregnancy | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Sexual
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Communication›Note | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Taunt | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bed | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Matchstick | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
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
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Demanding | Verbal›Telling | Verbal›Withholding | Violent›Beating
Cultural Issues: Violence›By police | Violence›Interracial
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Evening
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Place›Church
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Standing | Bodily›Waking | Emotional›Dread | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Religion
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Watching | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Actions: Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Moralizing | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Racial identity | Religion›Fanaticism | Religion›God with human characteristics
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Time of Day›Monday morning
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Monday
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Style›Present tense
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Truck | Perceptual›Observing | Physical›Camping | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Running | Movement›Truck | Verbal›Announcing | Verbal›Responding | Verbal›Telling
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Wrong name
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Cultural Issues: Race›Friendly interaction
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Telling
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human nature
Environment: Public›Barber shop | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Bootlegging | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Telling | Violent›Dragging
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Parlor
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Sexual | Social›Assailant-victim
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office | Time of Day›Saturday morning
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Metaphorical
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict | Sexual›Inappropriate
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial identity
Environment: Place›Sheriff's office
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Sexuality›Prostitution | War›Military reassignment
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chastity / purity | History›European
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Military equipment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Goodwin's
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Sexuality›Perverse
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's
Cultural Issues: Education›Dropping out
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging
Environment: Place›City | Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Time›And change
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Technology›Plastics | War›Bombing | War›Prisoner | War›Royal Air Force | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Limbourg, Belgium | Narrative›Parentheses
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Law›Incarceration | Sexuality›Pornography
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Environment: Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›Tuesday
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Repression | Texts›Deed
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bow and arrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Economic›Child support | Verbal›Telling
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Exile
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Office | Public›Train Station/Train depot
Themes and Motifs: Exile
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | War›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: War›Union Army