Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Gossip
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Old insult (abiding affront)
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Reproduction | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Men vs women | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Buggy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Institutional›Minister and parishioner
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Surveillance
Cultural Issues: Gender | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Cultural Issues: Race›Ku Klux Klan
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Environment: Place›Country store | Public›Store porch
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Community›Opinion | Objects›Tobacco | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Cultural Issues: Progress›Infrastructure
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Social›Isolation
Actions: Verbal›Gossip | Work›Painting|Drawing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
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
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
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
Environment: Public›Store porch
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Tobacco | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Character›Reputation | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Age›Baby | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Sexuality›Pornography
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Domestic Space›Parlor | Time of Day›Tea
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility | Objects›Tea | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Environment: Public›Post office | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic dispute | Verbal›Gossip
Cultural Issues: Politics›Election | Progress›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Objects›Ax | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cuba | Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Economic›Stock trading
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Illegitimacy
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Attractiveness | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Open secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate | Narrative›Communal narrative
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Commercial›Boss-underling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Age›Middle age
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Time›Being late / tardiness | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Lilith | Narrative›Second-person directed
Environment: Public›Restaurant
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Work›Losing job | Work›Restauranteer
Themes and Motifs: Character›Honesty | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Place›Cotillion Club | Public›Opera house | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›December
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Movement›Buggy | Physical›Dancing
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Handy, W.C. | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses