Actions: Communication Without words
Description
When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow.
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Addressing for mail delivery
- By sound
- Car horn
- Censorship
- Engrave
- Gossip
- Graffiti
- Lack of communication
- Letter
- Listening
- Marriage announcement
- Messenger
- Newspaper article
- Newspaper columns and notices
- Non-human
- Pen and ink well
- Post card
- Receiving mail
- Sending mail
- Silence
- Spanish
- Swearing
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Transcribing
- Unsent message
- Using writing with deafness
- Writing
Tagged Events
Actions: Communication›Without words
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Actions: Communication›Without words
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Misconduct
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Actions: Communication›Without words | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous | Race›Colorism
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Regret | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Despair | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Balance | Character›Cautious | Character›Recklessness | Time›Cyclical | Time›Measuring time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Hate | Mental›Channeling
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Actions: Communication›Without words | Mental›Channeling
Themes and Motifs: Death | Recurring Tropes›Door | Values›Truth/Lies
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Resentment
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Communication›Without words
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Walking | Physical›Escape from confinement | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Social›Assailant-victim | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Communication›Without words
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Cain
Actions: Communication›Without words
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Sword | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Hierarchical›Teacher-student