Actions: Mental Thinking
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Believing
- Calculation
- Changing one's mind
- Channeling
- Contemplation
- Counting
- Curiosity
- Day-dreaming
- Deduction
- Disapproval
- Disbelief
- Discovery
- Disorientation
- Distraction
- Distrust
- Dreaming
- Economizing
- Envisioning
- Failing / Failure
- Fantasizing
- Fatalism
- Flashback
- Hallucinating
- Imagining
- Impairment
- Inattentativeness
- Incomprehension
- Inquiry
- Insight
- Internal argument
- Learning
- Logically reasoning
- Misunderstanding
- Nightmare
- Planning
- Predicting
- Realization
- Reinterpretation
- Remembering
- Repression
- Self-consciousness
- Skepticism
- Speculation
- Studying
- Submission / Acquiescence
- Suppression / trying not to think
- Unaware
- Uncertainty
- Understanding
- Visualize
Tagged Events
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking
Themes and Motifs: Death
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Violence›Imagined
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Feminine man
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Character›Inherited traits | Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Horse | Movement›Steamboat | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Disappointment | Mental›Thinking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Perspective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Emotional›Anguish | Mental›Thinking | Military›Combat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Georgia | Allusion, Geographical›Richmond, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Alarm | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Narrative›Perspective
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Concubinage | Slavery›Evil | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Interracial›Romantic
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Burial | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Rider in jail
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Love | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Forced
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Sex and death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Pointing | Physical›Starting over
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Class consciousness | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Orgasm | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Responsibility | Death›Afterlife | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Affirmation | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Figures of Speech›Locked | Figures of Speech›Wild breath | Language›Fragments | Language›yes Yes Yes yes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Smelling water | Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Shadows
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Thinking | Work›Losing job
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Money›Stolen | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Themes and Motifs: Money›Lost | Objects›Golf ball | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Collar box | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Past
Environment: Time of Year›June | Weather
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Memory›Remembering | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Adam | Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Allusion, Geographical›New London, Connecticut | Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Voice | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Mental›Thinking | Non-human›Animal senses | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Bed | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Collar | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Objects›Books | Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Being in time | Time›Being on time / punctuality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Historical›Saint Francis | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Mental›Learning | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Condition of heaviness | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, derby | Clothes›Shoes | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Colored people as acceptable terminology | Race›Race as a form of behavior | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Region›North | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Objects›Cigar
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Public›School | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Scolding | Interaction, Private›Teacher-student | Interaction, Social›Teacher-class of students | Mental›Counting | Mental›Day-dreaming | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Primary school | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | History›Explorers
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Fingers | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Stomach/belly | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Mental›Uncertainty
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics