Environment: Auditory Birdsong
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Airplane sound
- Barking
- Bees
- Bells
- Boat
- Breathing
- Bugle
- Carpentry
- Cars passing
- Car|truck movement
- Clock chiming
- Clock ticking
- Combat sounds
- Confused din
- Dog barking
- Echoing
- Engine
- Footsteps
- Frogs
- Gallop
- Haunting
- Heartbeat
- Hoofbeats
- Howling
- Hunting horn
- Industry
- Insect sounds
- Machine
- Moving wagon
- Murmur
- Music
- Nature
- Owls
- Postal horn
- Quietness
- Rain on roof
- Rodent sounds
- Running sound
- Sawing
- Shots
- Silence
- Siren
- Sound of drums
- Streetcar sound
- Train sound
- Tree / leaves
- Unseen voice
- Voices
- Water
- Whistle
Tagged Events
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Birdsong | Natural›Sky | Place›Church | Public›Church steeple | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Mental›Flashback | Mental›Remembering | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Christianity | Religion›Sabbath
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Pigeons | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Continuity | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Paint | Metafictional›Painting | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Repetition | Tone›Nostalgic | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Atmospheric›Stillness | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Haunting | Auditory›Quietness | Domestic Space›Office | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Olfactory›Smelling death | Place›Office | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›September | Time of Year›Summer | Weather›Heat | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Watching | Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Outrage | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Silence | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Garment female | Clothes›Mourning | Gender›Chastity / purity | Gender›Femininity | Sexuality›Frustration | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Animals›Sparrow | Body›Voice | Objects›Chair | Objects›Windows | Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Repression | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Series of events experienced as long duration
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Description›Character portrait | Description›Color black | Description›Color yellow | Description›Grotesque | Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Paint | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Figures of Speech›Water | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional | Narrative›Indeterminacy | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Verbal›Reading aloud
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Convalescence
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor
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
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | War›Aerial combat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Fool|Foolishness | Values›Determination
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Daytime | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›Saturday
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Natural›Creek bottom | Natural›Spring | Natural›Trees | Time of Day›Four o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›May
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Books
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Symbolism›Reflection
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Alienation from nature | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Nature | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Place›Barn | Time of Day›Dawn
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Evening
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Religion›Folk superstition
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Morning
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Tennis shoes | Food›Candy | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Atmospheric›Burgeoning | Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn | Agriculture›Cotton
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Hunting›Fishing | Mental›Contemplation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Barking | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Nature | Olfactory›Flowers
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Flowers | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Natural›Woods | Place›Road
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hair ribbons | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Food›Bread | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Hair pigtails | Appearance›Invisibility | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Home | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Profound | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Actions: Bodily›Heart beating | Emotional›Humiliation | Emotional›Love | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Masculinity | Health and Illness›Injury | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Music | Public›Church | Public›Church steeple | Public›Store | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | History›Prohibition
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Technology›Car
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ford, Henry
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Cabin | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Year›Easter | Weather›Fog | Weather›Rain
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Mexico | Description›Color blue | Description›Color maroon | Description›Color purple
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Femininity | Religion›Christianity
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Mockingbird | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Stable | Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Coward | Character›Reputation | Death›Response to
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Time of Day›Afternoon
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Drawing room | Olfactory›Flowers
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Dream
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Montgomery, Alabama | Language›Profanity