Aesthetics: Figures of Speech
Child Terms
- Affirmation
- Animals compared to objects
- Animals compared to people
- Ants
- Armor
- Arrow
- Bestial imagery
- Bird
- Bloom
- Breath
- Bride / Bridal
- Butterfly
- Calf rope
- Chains
- Chess
- Chess imagery stalemate
- Clay
- Clean flame
- Cloud
- Coal dust
- Coupled
- Creditor
- Death / Dead imagery
- Dehumanizing
- Desert island
- Disease
- Drained marsh
- Drama / Theatre imagery
- Electricity
- Embroidery
- Exoticism
- Expression
- Eyes
- Face
- Fertilise / Fertility imagery
- Fire
- Fish
- Flag
- Flood imagery
- Food and drink imagery
- Gambling imagery
- Ghost
- Glass
- Glove
- Gull
- Harvest
- Hunting metaphor / imagery
- Hyperbole
- Invisible wire
- Island of silence
- Jackal
- King and/or queen
- Locked
- Loom
- Mask
- Medical / Surgical
- Metaphor
- Metonym
- Military analogy
- Military terminology
- Mirage
- Mirror
- Monument
- Moth
- Musical imagery
- Native American
- Negation
- Old maid
- Oxymoron
- Paint
- Parrot
- Pathetic fallacy
- Pencil
- People compared to animals
- Periodical filth
- Personification
- Photography
- Pilgrim
- Planets
- Planting
- Poisoned
- Puppy
- Rabbit
- Rain
- Rape
- Rats
- Replica
- Ripple
- Sacrifice
- Scarecrow
- Scientific
- Scratch
- Scythe
- Seed
- Shadow
- Sheep
- Shell
- Simile
- Simile-mask
- Skeleton
- Skull
- Slot machine
- Space program
- Stage manager
- Stencil
- Stone
- Swallows
- Swine
- Synesthesia
- Talisman
- Technological imagery
- Threads
- Thunderclap
- Tomb
- Tornado
- Toy bear / teddybear
- Toys
- Train / locomotive imagery
- Treadmill
- Vernacular
- Violent in figurative sense
- Voice
- Water
- Weaponry imagery
- Wild breath
- Woodpile
Tagged Events
Environment: Natural›Creek bottom | Place›Indian mound
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Aboriginal
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Explaining
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Narrative›Anticipation
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
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Bear hunting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Character›Noisiness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Hunting›Deer hunting
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing | Religion›God
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Tone›Humorous
Environment: Place›Indian mound | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Swearing | Emotional›Relief | Hunting›Racoon hunting | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Walking | Play›Gambling | Play›Joking around | Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Hay | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Time of Day›Eleven o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Hearing | Play›Joking around | Play›Prank | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Cure | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Health and Illness›Insanity | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Death›Funeral pyre / cremation | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Suspicion | Mental›Curiosity | Mental›Realization | Play›Prank | Verbal›Bragging | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Technology›Automobile
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Objects›Fiddle
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Solomon | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Violent›Poisoning | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Sexuality›Desire | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Violent›Intimidation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Violent›Intimidation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Native American
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marketing
Cultural Issues: Progress›Ironies of
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Napoleon | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house | Domestic Space›Veranda | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Law›Sheriff | Mass Media›Telephone | Race›Etiquette | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee | Commercial›Landlord-tenant | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›Etiquette | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Law enforcement
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Law›Legal issue | Law›Spousal privilege | Law›Witness | Race›Masquerade
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Staring | Economic›Bargaining | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Intergenerational›Conflict | Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Naming self | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Law›Wedding license
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Laid-by season | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Impatience | Work›Farming
Relationships: Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Architecture | Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Ancestral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Women | Government›Generational reform | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Gender›Body | Gender›Patriarchy | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Horsewhip | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Body | Law›Regulation | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Appearance›Complexion | Objects›Poison
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Flag
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›December
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Maturing | Government›Generational reform | Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | War›World War I
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves | Identity, Personal›Soldier
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: War›Psychological effects
Themes and Motifs: Death›Like death
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human experience
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injury | Nationality | War›Prisoner
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco | Philosophical›Human nature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Antony and Cleopatra | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | Nationality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Redemption
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Education›Life after graduation | Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Twins | Intergenerational›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Nihilism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Post-war | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Redemption
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Technology | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Art›Photograph | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Airplane | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Picture/image
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Sympathy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Matthew | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Meteor shower | Natural›Woods | Place›Jefferson
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Economic›Trading
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Birthright | Class›French nobility | Cultural Identity›American | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | War›Refugee
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Inheritance›Property | Naming›Indian name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Year the stars fell | Texts›Translation
Relationships: Familial›Foster family | Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Economy›Oil business | Government›National authority | Government›Usurpation | Group Mentality›Political solidarity | History›Dispossessing Indians | History›Indian Removal | Identity, Cultural›National | Ritual›Dueling | War›Indian / Native American wars
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Race›Stereotype sweat
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Running | Emotional›Despair | Verbal›Command | Violent›Domestic violence | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Frogs | Animals›Whippoorwills | Home | Objects›Candle | Philosophical›Ethics | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Marital›Abusive | Marital›Conflict
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Naming | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Hierarchical | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Relocation
Relationships: Commercial›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Plantation house
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Peace | Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Honeysuckle | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›White-black
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Point-of-view | Meaning›Mystery | Story-telling›Explaining
Actions: Interaction, Social›Leadership
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Character›Personality change
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Space program | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Public
Actions: Perceptual
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Communal narrative
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Gossip | Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Government | Group Mentality›Community collective | Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Predatory | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Economical | Marital›Husband-wife | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Clothing | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Water
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Audit | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Politics›City government | Race›Hierarchical
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Harvest | Figures of Speech›Monument
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Domestic›Cooking | Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Denial | Verbal›Silence | Violent›Vengeance
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes
Environment: Domestic Space›Hearth
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Objects›Brass
Relationships: Marital›Adultery | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Water
Actions: Interaction, Social›Peer group | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Community›Social life
Relationships: Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile-mask
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Breathing | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Night
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Moon
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Silence | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Magazines | Violence›Domestic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Emotional›Resignation
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Death›Funeral | Objects›Monument | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant | Intergenerational›Conflict | Interracial›Conflict
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Work›Barbering
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rejection
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Age›Middle age
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Chess | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Time of Year›Spring | Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Memphis | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Age›Youth | Alcohol›Whiskey | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Named dog Lion
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Deer hunting | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Social›Leadership | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Poker game | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Religion›Godhead
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Competitive | Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Hunting clothes | Progress›Country to city
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Scruffiness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Appearance›Scruffiness | Body›Blood
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Place›Decayed plantation | Place›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Physical›Digging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wagon | Psychological›Obsession
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Economic›Scamming | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Soil quality | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Domestic | Labor›Farming
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Confined living quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military terminology
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Natural›Back country
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Education›Mentorship
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Psychological›Motivation
Cultural Issues: Government›Corruption | Law›Pardon
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Apparition | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Sidewalk
Themes and Motifs: Community›Knowledge | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole
Environment: Auditory›Confused din | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Environment: Domestic Space›Cellar | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Shouting
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Running
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow
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
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Laughing | Mental›Thinking | Violent›Fighting | Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Chain gang | Law›Incarceration | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype eyes
Themes and Motifs: Character›Superhuman strength
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Vernacular
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Competition
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Compass | Values›Good conduct
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Epiphany
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality | Race›Stereotype: smell
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Government›Inherited position | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Race›Stereotype sweat | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Agricultural
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Shoes | Global›Exoticism | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Fugitive
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured | Race›Stereotype: smell
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Crowd | Death›Funeral | Death›Indian burial practices
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunset
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›July
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›Mankind
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Interpretation of symbol
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Actions: Emotional›Triumph | Mental›Insight | Perceptual›Moment of vision
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American | Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Future | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious art or iconography | Religion›Rituals and rites
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Movement›Running away | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Reproduction
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Forgetting
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Public›Store porch
Actions: Interaction, Social›Male gathering
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Prejudice›Socio-economic
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Advent
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship | Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Narrative›Communal narrative
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Commercial›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›First-person passim
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Remembering | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Food›Peas | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Bear | Animals›Cows | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Animals›Pigs | Futility›Inability | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Ax | Objects›Saw | Recurring Tropes›Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Trembling | Mental›Realization | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-bear
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Train / locomotive imagery
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Dilapidation
Actions: Work›Government
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Health and Illness›Amputation | Health and Illness›Injury | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Negation
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances | Familial›Twins
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Father said
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Interaction, Social›Noblesse oblige
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Methodism | Slavery›Freedom
Themes and Motifs: Community›Cooperation | Texts›Ledger
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Emotional›Vindictive
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Permanence
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Day›Dusk
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Naming›Named for historical figure
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend | Public›Store | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cicadas | Animals›Lightning bugs | Philosophical›Human nature | Philosophical›Suffering | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Economic›Paying | Movement›Walking | Physical›Apprehending | Physical›Hitting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Assault
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
Themes and Motifs: Money›Filthy lucre | Objects›Ax
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing | Domestic›Child care | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›MacArthur, Douglas | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Agricultural›Chopping | Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Idleness | Domestic›Cooking | Domestic›Sewing | Domestic›Washing | Interaction, Private›Conversation | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: War›Patriotism | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Farm | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Run away
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Public›Road
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Public›Bus Depot/Bus stop
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Economic›Paying | Economic›Trading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls | Identity, Cultural›Rural | Mass Media›Telephone
Relationships: Civic›child protection | Familial›Sibling | Social›Adversarial | Social›Paternalism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Slavery
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Actions: Communication›Writing | Movement›Surrey
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Community›Social life | Death›Burial | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Loom | Figures of Speech›Skull | Figures of Speech›Stone | Narrative›Self-Reflective
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Physical›Reading
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Time›Permanence
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scratch
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Dehumanization
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Values›Justice
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime›Murder
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway | Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal | Race›Division | Race›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Body›Face | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Supernatural›Haunting
Relationships: Familial | Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Forced migration
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Snake | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Sensory experience | Body›Womb | Memory›Forgetting | Psychological›Will to endure | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden
Actions: Emotional›Love | Perceptual›Voyeurism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fairy-tale
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Burial | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Rebel yell | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Place›Grave | Time of Year›Winter
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ruthless | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Rape | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Psychological›Madness | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mirage | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Perceptual›Looking | Work›Gardening
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Supper table
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Actions: Mental›Submission / Acquiescence | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Ring | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Touch | Time›Frozen / Static
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Moral›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Voice
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Buggy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind
Actions: Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Class
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Psychological›Peace | Supernatural›Eternity
Relationships: Friendship | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Narrative›Fantasy | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mask
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Bonnet
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mask
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | Race›Racial identity
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes | Race›Colorism | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mules | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Themes and Motifs: Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Monument | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Cultural Issues: Class›Class conflict | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Lynching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Right-of-way
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites
Themes and Motifs: Character›Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
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
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | War›Civil War
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Recurring Tropes›Destiny | Story-telling
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male relationship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Auditory›Sound of drums | Otherworldly›Earth / the world
Cultural Issues: Slavery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Threads | Language›French
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ripple | Figures of Speech›Water | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dirty
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Shrewdness | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality | Time›Running out
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Apotheosis | War›Civil War
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Objects›Horsewhip | Objects›Scythe | Time›Duration of time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Thinness | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Clay | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Time›Lost time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Actions: Economic›Receiving money | Mental›Realization
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gambling imagery
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creation | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Metafictional›Signs
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Actions: Emotional›Hate | Moral›Exploitation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Institutional›Lawyer-client
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fire | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Art›Objet d'art | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Retelling
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Conjectural narration
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | Sexuality›Incest
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dust | Olfactory›Old woman smell
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Perceptual›Tasting
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Themes and Motifs: Death | Home›Homecoming | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Technological imagery
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Haunting | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Eyes | Narrative›Anti-climax
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Character›Power | Character›Ruthless | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Dialogue
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Meaning›Mystery | Past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Bluebeard | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Interracial | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Wildness | Naming›Importance of naming
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Objects›Piano
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Chaos/Order | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Mental›Speculation
Relationships: Familial | Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing