Aesthetics: Figures of Speech Simile

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"A Bear Hunt", 68 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Bodily›Sleeplessness | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Food›Bear meat
Themes and Motifs: Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"A Bear Hunt", 75 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Jackson as synonym for state insane hospital | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous
"A Courtship", 365 (Event)
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
"A Courtship", 379 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Steamboat
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women
Relationships: Romantic›Unrequited
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Solomon | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile
"A Point of Law", 214 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Conjectural narration
"A Point of Law", 217 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard | Domestic Space›Porch | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Work›Law enforcement
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
"A Point of Law", 217 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: Law›Evidence | Law›Legal issue | Law›Spousal privilege | Law›Witness | Race›Masquerade
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Marital›Spousal privilege
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"A Point of Law", 222 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Verbal›Naming self | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Still | Objects›Well | Psychological›Peace
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Conflict | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy | Style›Character portrait | Tone›Humorous
"Ad Astra", 407 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Sobriety | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Ad Astra", 407 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves | Identity, Personal›Soldier
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Ad Astra", 408 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human experience
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Ad Astra", 411 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded
Actions: Emotional›Anger
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
"Ad Astra", 414 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Military | Nationality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Ad Astra", 417 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›College
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Redemption
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Ad Astra", 423 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Actions: Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National
Themes and Motifs: Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"An Error in Chemistry", 124 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Sympathy
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Matthew | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Barn Burning", 4 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Food
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Law›Acquittal | Law›Testimony
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Naming | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Hierarchical | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Dry September", 175 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
"Dry September", 179 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Moon
Actions: Bodily›Choking | Movement›Car | Movement›Limping | Physical›Jumping
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Dry September", 180 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Trembling | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Race›Division
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
"Dry September", 182 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Silence | Natural›Moon | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Magazines | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Fool About a Horse", 128 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Swearing
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous
"Hair", 144 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Rejection
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Knight's Gambit", 219 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Hurrying
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Knight's Gambit", 246 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring | Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Knight's Gambit", 248 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth vs age
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Romantic›Multiple
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Lion", 184 (Event)
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
"Lion", 185 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Stars | Weather›Cold | Weather›Frost
Actions: Bodily›Shivering | Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Food›Breakfast
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Animals›Named dog Lion
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Lion", 188 (Event)
Environment: Place›City
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
"Lion", 194 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Waiting | Play›Card playing
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Lion", 195 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Carrying
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
"Lion", 196 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 135 (Event)
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
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard", 142 (Event)
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
Themes and Motifs: Money›Hidden
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 378 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Evoking memory
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Sadness | Work›Painting|Drawing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as loss | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Monk", 43 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Back country
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Relationships: Marital›Common law
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Red Leaves", 325 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Shoes | Global›Exoticism | Slavery›Field slaves vs house slaves | Slavery›Fugitive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Body›Stomach/belly | Death
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Shall Not Perish", 111 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Movement›Bus
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›American
Themes and Motifs: Art›Power of
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"There Was a Queen", 731 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"There Was a Queen", 738 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›"Wait" | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Permanence
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Figures of Speech›Simile
"There Was a Queen", 743 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Dying
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
"Tomorrow", 100 (Event)
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend
Actions: Domestic›Sewing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Handmade | Clothes›Rural poverty | Politics›Taxes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Naming›Named for historical figure
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" | Allusion, Historical›Longstreet, James | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Tomorrow", 102 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Porch | Place›Frenchman's Bend | Public›Store | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Law›Hung jury
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
"Tomorrow", 106 (Event)
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
"Tomorrow", 99 (Event)
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
"Two Soldiers", 82 (Event)
Environment: Place›Farm
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Verbal›Withholding | Work›Farming
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Radio | War›World War II
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›MacArthur, Douglas | Figures of Speech›Simile
"Two Soldiers", 85 (Event)
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
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Two Soldiers", 88 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Walking
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
As I Lay Dying, 11 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
As I Lay Dying, 156 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Recovery | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Repair | Physical›Searching | Play›Betting | Verbal›Arguing | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Coffin | Objects›Construction tools | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
As I Lay Dying, 218 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
Flags in the Dust, 11 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Playfulness
Relationships: Institutional›Military | Social›Fame
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 126 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Livery stable
Actions: Economic›Offering to buy | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Impulsiveness | Character›Recklessness
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Ambush | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | War›Capture | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Courteous | Character›Recklessness | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Coffee
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism
Flags in the Dust, 139 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Water | Natural›Creek | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Movement›Car | Physical›Wagon|Car maintenance
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bats
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 142 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Playing music | Bodily›Singing | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 144 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Tree / leaves
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Car | Verbal›Exaggeration | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Modernity›Speed | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 146 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Emotional›Restlessness | Mental›Imagining | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Monologue
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Moonshine | Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Chivalry | Race›Friendly interaction
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Objects›Car
Relationships: Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery
Flags in the Dust, 165 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Cave
Actions: Work›Glassblowing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›A Midsummer Night's Dream | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 178 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Snoring | Play›Sports Golf | Play›Tennis | Work›Lawyering
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Inheritance
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Auditory›Silence
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Scottish / Scots
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Memory›Collective memory | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Gun
Aesthetics: Diction›Accent | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 19 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Dancing
Aesthetics: Diction›Imitation | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 225 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Time of Year›June
Actions: Bodily›Sweating
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Indian medicine | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Parcel
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 23 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Fatalism | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Politics›Election
Themes and Motifs: Death›Longing for death | Death›Murder | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Flags in the Dust, 321 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Coldness
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Body›Eyes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 328 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›December | Weather›Frost
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fox | Animals›Pony
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 332 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Mental›Flashback | Verbal›Omission
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 357 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Hunting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 37 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Locust | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Food preparation | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Fox | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Flags in the Dust, 4 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Movement›Carriage
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Green eyeshade | Progress
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Death›Afterlife | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 402 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Naming›Renaming | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Ronceavaux Pass | Figures of Speech›Chess | Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 42 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Locust
Actions: Verbal›Command | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shawl | War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Frogs
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 43 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Weather›Cloud | Weather›Fog
Actions: Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Determination
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity | Recurring Episodes›Johnny Sartoris shot down | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Flags in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 56 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Decayed house | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Death
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 71 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity | Gender›Separate spaces | War›Deployment | War›Homefront | War›World War I
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Przemysl | Allusion, Geographical›Rheims | Allusion, Geographical›Thessaloniki | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 75 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Indifference | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed | Technology›Automobile
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 8 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Silence
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Law›Inheritance | Technology›Electricity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Wisteria
Relationships: Interracial›Conflict | Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Reivers , 14 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Legal›Bonding | Verbal›Insulting
Cultural Issues: Law›Informal arrangement | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Law
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 81 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Traditions
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Objects›Plow
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Language›Hee hee hee | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Pretension
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyelashes | Character›Regal
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Swallows | Narrative›Multiple quotations in a single paragraph | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 116 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›Leaf / leaves | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Religion›Resurrection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish | Animals›Insects mayflies | Appearance›Depth / deepness | Appearance›Surface | Body›Eyes | Death›Afterlife | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Bones | Death›Compared to sleep | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Allusion, Mythical›Narcissus | Figures of Speech›Arrow | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Symbolism›Christian
The Sound and the Fury, 117 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Whistle | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Place›Rural | Public›Bridge | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Fishing contest | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Progress›Factory | Progress›Streetcar line
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish trout | Money›Prize value | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Fishing rod | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Solitary | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Proverbs | Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Description›Color yellow | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Threads
The Sound and the Fury, 122 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bees | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Insects butterflies | Supernatural›Spell
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Description›Color yellow | Figures of Speech›Ants | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 124 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Hoofbeats | Natural›Trees | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower
Actions: Movement›Buggy | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shirt
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Objects›Wheel | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color white | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Embroidery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Treadmill
The Sound and the Fury, 125 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Olfactory›Baking / bread
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Charity | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Stealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Jewish | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Food›Bread | Food›Cake | Food›Coffee | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›American | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Librarian look | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Money›Nickel coin | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem/song "The Star-Spangled Banner" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Ethnic slur | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Toy bear / teddybear | Genre Conventions›Parody | Tone›Sarcastic
The Sound and the Fury, 128 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Full moon | Atmospheric›Harvest moon | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Moon / Lunar | Time of Year›Lunar month / cycle
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Lust | Interaction, Social›Concealment
Cultural Issues: Gender›Body | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Menstruation / menstrual cycle | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hips | Body›Pregnancy | Body›Thighs | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Color yellow | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Periodical filth | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype
The Sound and the Fury, 137 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Gender›Male body
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Beavers | Animals›Horses | Appearance›Nakedness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Chins | Body›Male body | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 138 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Squatting | Emotional›Caring
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Stove
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 141 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 149 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bathroom | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Shock | Perceptual›Sensing | Physical›Climbing stairs | Physical›Pushing away | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Body›Arm | Body›Eyes | Body›Face
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rats | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 149 (Event)
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
The Sound and the Fury, 154 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Frogs | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Sexual | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 70 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Domestic Space›Supper table | Time of Day›Supper
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Verbal›Complaining
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Slipper | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 71 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Studying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Burning | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Mouth | Body›Shoulder | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Paper | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 78 (Event)
Environment: Public›Academic quad / quadrangle | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m.
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Socks | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education›College | Education›College class or lecture
Themes and Motifs: Body›Foot / Feet | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coffee | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being late / tardiness
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›South Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Thompson's Restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 81 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Undressing | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Vest | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Mirror | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Armor | Figures of Speech›Cloud | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 83 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Clock tower | Public›Store | Public›Store window | Public›Street
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Street vendor / service worker | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking away | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Boot-black / Shoe shine | Work›Jeweler
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Money›Gift of money | Money›Nickel coin | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | Objects›Watch | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 85 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Public›Store window | Time of Year›December
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Perceptual›Looking | Work›Jeweler
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Body›Hair | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Folk customs | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Measuring time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Philosopher Bergson, Henri | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Drained marsh | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›African-American folk sayings
The Sound and the Fury, 86 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Santa Claus | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Rabbit | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives
The Sound and the Fury, 88 (Event)
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
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mississippi River | Allusion, Historical›De Soto, Hernando | Figures of Speech›Glass | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
The Sound and the Fury, 89 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Smelling water | Public›Street
Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Clothes›Collar | Clothes›Hat, straw | Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Work clothes
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Gulls | Body›Knee | Objects›Basket | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Ship | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Invisible wire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 89 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge
Actions: Movement›Streetcar | Perceptual›Seeing | Work›Maritime / Marine
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, straw | Technology›Shipping schooner | Technology›Shipping tugboat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Gulls | Body›Male body | Body›Skin | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Ship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Description›Color brown | Description›Color of leaf tobacco | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Invisible wire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Toys | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 90 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 90 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Ice floes / iceberg | Atmospheric›Wind | Natural›River | Time of Year›March | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Economic›Renting | Legal›Calling police | Mental›Believing | Movement›Boat | Movement›Car | Movement›Following | Movement›Matching / Paralleling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Hat, straw | Law›Police | Religion›God | Religion›God with human characteristics | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Relationship with God | Religion›Sacrilege
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Character›Regal
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Geographical›Arctic | Allusion, Geographical›Charles River | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Massachusetts | Allusion, Historical›Explorers | Figures of Speech›King and/or queen | Figures of Speech›Planets | Figures of Speech›Sheep | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 92 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 94 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Camphor | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Seduction | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Moral›Deception | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Punning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Pretension | Education›Harvard | Gender›Femininity | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Car | Objects›Honeysuckle | Objects›Trunk | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 10 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Cooking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Apron | Clothes›Bathing suit | Clothes›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Politics›City government | Politics›Election | Sexuality›Attractiveness | War›Confederate Army
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Communal narrative
The Town, 112 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Letter | Verbal›News
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cats | Animals›Snake
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 113 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Physical›Searching | Violent›Explosion | Work›Night watchman
Cultural Issues: War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Missing
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lusitania | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 134 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shame
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 138 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 148 (Event)
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 152 (Event)
Environment: Place›Playground | Public›School
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Store clerk
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Snopesism | Class›Social mobility | Clothes›Suit | Education›Graduation | History›Civil War | Progress›Cars | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Money›Inheritance | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Nickname
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Lookout Mountain | Allusion, Literary›Gulliver's Travels | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 155 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Borrowing | Economic›Investing | Mental›Realization | Physical›Running | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 164 (Event)
Environment: Public›Cafe
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Hysteria | Moral›Stealing | Perceptual›Investigating | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Questioning | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Addiction | Health and Illness›Drugs | History›Civil War as point of reference | Law›Police | Mass Media›Newspaper
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Einstein, Albert | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 175 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 184 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Perceptual›Misreading
Cultural Issues: Law›Corruption
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 189 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Education›Heidelberg | Food›Ice-cream
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 208 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Cars passing | Time of Year›Monday
Actions: Emotional›Contempt | Movement›Car
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 208 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›May
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Education›Graduation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Suitcase | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Narrative shift | Symbolism›Reflection | Typography/Orthography›Handwriting
The Town, 22 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Paying
Cultural Issues: Government›Audit
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Tobacco
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 225 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Delivering | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dressed up
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Texts›Letters | Time›Frozen / Static
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 244 (Event)
Actions: Work›Painting|Drawing
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Shoes
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 244 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Fog
Actions: Bodily›Running | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 248 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shock | Non-human›Escape
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Absurdist
The Town, 248 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Chickens/roosters | Money›As motive | Money›Owed | Objects›Broom | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Comedy | Narrative›Reported narration
The Town, 250 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 277 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Economy›Banking | Law›Corruption
Themes and Motifs: Character›Naivety
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 280 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Civic dispute
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Adage | Symbolism›Created by characters
The Town, 284 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 30 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 315 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Holiday
Themes and Motifs: Death | Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Town, 316 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Coming of age | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Relationships: Familial›Twins | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 33 (Event)
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 330 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Hills | Place›Road | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Mental›Envisioning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fireflies | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Figures of Speech›Loom | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 357 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Futility
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Weaponry imagery
The Town, 364 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Objects›Monument | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 370 (Event)
Environment: Place›Railroad | Time of Year›October
Themes and Motifs: Art›Artistic creation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 38 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Pregnancy | Work›Losing job | Work›Teaching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Pants | Education›Rural school
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 389 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Community›Crowd | Community›Preserving order | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Civic›child protection
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 40 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house | Place›Hotel
Actions: Movement›Buggy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Objects›Furniture | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Hyperbole | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scientific | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Present-time reference | Typography/Orthography›All caps
The Town, 61 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Night | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Eating supper | Bodily›Laughing | Communication›Telephone | Domestic›Sewing | Movement›Car | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Checkers | Play›Chess | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Bachelor
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Coffee | Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 65 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female intuition | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 69 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Bodily›Hiding | Movement›Car | Physical›Repair | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Coffee | Objects›Rake | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Tone›Humorous | Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia
The Town, 89 (Event)
Environment: Public›Court | Time of Year›January
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Municipal meeting
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Brass
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
The Town, 96 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Wagner, Richard | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
The Unvanquished, 7 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Throwing
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity
The Unvanquished, 72 (Event)
Actions: Military›Escape | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: War›Glorification | War›Union Army | War›Violence against civilians
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Profanity