Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3684 | "Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past | Diction |
This could come under Style, too -- to capture when Faulkner uses simple words like "is" or "was" as synonyms for larger concepts of past or present. Added for Quentin, but could be used in As I Lay Dying too for Darl's rumination on the same. JBP |
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| 3442 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5317 | Aaahhhhhhh | Language | ||
| 5632 | Ab Snopes at De Spain's house | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5077 | Ab's war wound | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 4089 | Abduction myths | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3451 | Abraham | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1386 | Absurdist | Tone | ||
| 4074 | Abundance or flow of words | Language |
For whenever a text makes a point of "words" (without necessarily listing specific ones) - generalizing about them. Added for when Quentin starts thinking about being "the words coming out" as he reflects on how could he be a virgin. JBP |
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| 740 | Accent | Diction | ||
| 4062 | Adage | Narrative | ||
| 2695 | Adam | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 5348 | Address to reader | Style | ||
| 4099 | Affirmation | Figures of Speech |
Similar to the keyword for negation, but for when a text vaguely affirms or says yes about something. (Cf. Quentin saying "we did" and "yes Yes Yes yes" on 148-49 of SF.) JBP |
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| 2796 | Africa | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 690 | African American vernacular dialect | Diction | ||
| 3521 | African-American folk sayings | Narrative | ||
| 2663 | Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 4104 | Ah Ah Ah | Language | ||
| 4105 | ah ah ah | Language | ||
| 1380 | Ah-Ah-Ah | Language | ||
| 4326 | Ah-h-h | Language | ||
| 3470 | Ahenobarbus | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4195 | Alabama | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4381 | Alabama Secession Convention | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3181 | Alexander | Allusion, Historical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1202 | "Wait" | Recurring Tropes |
Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW |
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| 910 | Abandonment | Absence/Loss | ||
| 2880 | Abrupt shift in time | Time |
For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F. |
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| 1327 | Absence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 617 | Absence as disguise | Absence/Loss |
This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR |
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| 1331 | Absence as loss | Absence/Loss | ||
| 5275 | Absence as presence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4512 | Absence of sound | Absence/Loss | ||
| 358 | Absence/Loss | (First level term) | ||
| 2604 | Absurdity | Meaning | ||
| 1689 | Accident | Chaos/Order | ||
| 4419 | Accounts | Texts | ||
| 517 | Advent | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 5401 | Aesthetic experience | Meaning | ||
| 3798 | African American music | Art | ||
| 626 | African-American | Community | ||
| 2232 | Afterlife | Death | ||
| 3214 | Air gun | Objects | ||
| 3252 | Airplane | Objects | ||
| 1459 | Alarm | Arrivals/Departures |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
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| 1783 | Alias | Naming | ||
| 2331 | Alienation | Community | ||
| 4447 | Alienation from nature | Exile |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5614 | 1860 Election of Lincoln | History | ||
| 302 | AANoSecondTerm | Slavery | ||
| 905 | Abdication | Government | ||
| 317 | Abolition | Slavery | ||
| 983 | Aboriginal | Land-Use | ||
| 3420 | Abortion | Health and Illness | ||
| 4597 | Abstinence | Alcohol | ||
| 3374 | Abuse of office | Law | ||
| 5089 | Academia | Education | ||
| 1372 | Accident | Violence | ||
| 548 | Acquittal | Law | ||
| 1407 | Addiction | Health and Illness | ||
| 923 | Adolescence | Age | ||
| 5349 | Adult-adolescent | Sexuality | ||
| 1793 | Advertising | Mass Media | ||
| 3201 | Advertising | Economy | ||
| 897 | Aerial combat | War | ||
| 2347 | African American | Religion |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
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| 305 | African origins | Slavery | ||
| 464 | Age | (First level term) | ||
| 5606 | Agelessness | Age | ||
| 1635 | Agricultural | Land-Use | ||
| 4033 | Agricultural | Progress | ||
| 1087 | Agriculture | (First level term) | ||
| 3035 | Air travel | Progress | ||
| 465 | Alcohol | (First level term) | ||
| 3915 | Alcoholism | Alcohol | ||
| 1778 | Alibi | Law | ||
| 1745 | Alienating | Law |
Any time the legal system alienates a person caught up in it, whether the person is guilty or not. The direct example here is Monk, but Mink Snopes is equally alienated, because he does not understand how the system works and suffers more dire consequences because of it. |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1354 | Abandonment | Marital | ||
| 625 | Abusive | Marital | ||
| 5159 | Adoptive | Familial | ||
| 2799 | Adult friends | Friendship | ||
| 2892 | Adult-child | Friendship | ||
| 1355 | Adultery | Marital | ||
| 858 | Adultery | Sexual | ||
| 597 | Adversarial | Social |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3314 | Academic quad / quadrangle | Public | ||
| 3629 | Acrid | Olfactory | ||
| 1022 | Afternoon | Time of Day | ||
| 5310 | Airfield | Public | ||
| 4414 | Airplane sound | Auditory | ||
| 2772 | Alcohol | Olfactory |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5171 | Accepting | Mental | ||
| 2562 | Accident | Work | ||
| 1977 | Accounting | Economic |
This does not merely describe the specific actions of an accountant, but any formal or informal balancing of the books be it Flem Snopes, Maury Priest, or Will Varner. JB |
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| 2991 | Accusatory | Verbal | ||
| 3370 | Addressing for mail delivery | Communication | ||
| 1082 | Agricultural | (First level term) | ||
| 5419 | Aiding and abetting | Moral | ||
| 4413 | Airplane crash | Violent |