Aesthetics: Narrative Background
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Adage
- African-American folk sayings
- Alternative story
- Anti-climax
- Anticipation
- Argument
- Child's perspective
- Chronological enjambment
- Collaborative narration
- Commentary
- Communal narrative
- Conjectural narration
- Contested
- Conversation with oneself
- Cyclical
- Delayed revelation
- Disruption
- Epiphany
- Fantasy
- First-person
- First-person passim
- First-person passim throughout section
- First-person plural passim
- First-person vernacular
- First-person vernacular passim
- Flash forward
- Foreshadowing
- Frame
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- Imagined conversation
- Indeterminacy
- Irony
- Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
- Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
- Narrative anomaly
- Narrative shift
- Origin
- Parentheses
- Pause
- Perspective
- Present-time reference
- Quotation as thought
- Reconstructed
- Repetition
- Reported narration
- Reported narration passim
- Reported narration passim in section
- Resumption of sentence after interruption
- Revision
- Revisionary
- Second-person directed
- Self-correction
- Self-Reflective
- Stream of consciousness narration
- Summary
- Suspended|Resumed
- Suspense
- Temporal discontinuity
- Temporal projection
- Theatrical effect
- Under oath
- Unidentified character
- Unreliable narrator
- Withholding
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Environment: Time of Year›July Fourth
Actions: Interaction, Social›Barbecue
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Actions: Mental›Predicting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Riding | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Widow | Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal ownership | Law›Property | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Retribution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Local legends | Death›Future | Death›Spousal | Determinism›Fated | Home›New home | Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Collective memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Figures of Speech›Breath | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Origin | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background | Recurring Episodes›Boon shoots Negro