Aesthetics: Figures of Speech Oxymoron
Parent Term
Sibling 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
- 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: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Rural | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Separate spaces | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Environment: Domestic Space›Chicken coop / hen house | Place›Drugstore / pharmacy
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Outrage | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Legal›Arrest | Legal›Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer | Movement›Procession | Physical›Climbing | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Beating | Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Pants | Clothes›Veil | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Law›Custody | Law›Marshal | Technology›Automobile | Violence›Child abuse | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Forgetting
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Diction›Malapropism | Figures of Speech›Glove | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
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: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation