Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1783 Alias Naming
2331 Alienation Community
4447 Alienation from nature Exile
3010 Alligators Animals
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
4747 Ambiguous circumstances Death
538 Ambitious Character
5519 Amoral Character
2236 Anchovies Objects
4741 And an animal Determinism
3060 And caste Naming
4950 And change Time
5377 And civilization Art
4428 And inheritance Death
3193 And monuments Past
2082 Animal bear Death
2073 Animal Dog Death
2910 Animal horse Death
4535 Animal mule Death
364 Animals (First level term)
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
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.
2872 All-male space Gender
4065 Alter ego / other self Identity, Personal
1693 Ambiguous Identity, Personal
635 Ambition Class
3192 Ambush Violence
328 Amelioration Slavery

To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR
1730 America and opportunity Cultural Identity
3096 America vs Europe Identity, Cultural
3195 American Cultural Identity
1257 American Nationality
3345 American historical myths History
2423 American Revolution History
1711 American Revolution War
3359 Americana Materialism
3257 Amputation Health and Illness
1479 Amulet Religion
3258 Anaesthetic Health and Illness
5397 Ancestral Identity, Personal
5587 And age Clothes
4426 And class Clothes
4857 And class Religion
5011 And gender Clothes
5551 And gender Identity, Cultural
4760 And identity Clothes
5443 And marriage Gender
5375 And nationality Cultural Identity
2410 And progress Law
3178 And progress Slavery
5456 And race Politics
5013 And race Crime
1727 And race Clothes
5520 And racism Economy
4696 And religion Gender
1295 Anemia Health and Illness
2447 Anglophile Cultural Identity
5512 Animal crackers Food
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4628 Alimentary Bodily
2031 Amazement Emotional
1572 Ambiguity Perceptual
2346 Ambivalence Emotional
4263 Ambulance Movement
898 Ambush Physical
4291 And deafness Communication
5006 And race Hunting
823 Anger Emotional
4383 Anguish Emotional
799 Animal abuse Violent
2902 Animal attack on human Violent
1834 Animal predatory behavior Violent
3277 Animal senses Non-human
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2017 All caps Typography/Orthography
5450 All right, all right, all right Language
1095 Allusion, Biblical (First level term)
1096 Allusion, Geographical (First level term)
406 Allusion, Historical (First level term)
1097 Allusion, Literary (First level term)
1098 Allusion, Mythical (First level term)
5249 Alma Tadema Allusion, Historical
2936 Alps Allusion, Geographical
3215 Alternative story Narrative
1692 Ambiguity Interpretation
485 Ambiguity (First level term)
2812 Americans for Democratic Action Allusion, Historical
4219 Amiens, France Allusion, Geographical
4113 Amsterdam Allusion, Geographical
5744 Anaphora Language
1990 Ancient Greek Chorus Allusion, Literary
5466 Ancient Greeks Allusion, Historical
4740 And detective plot Ambiguity
1526 Angel Allusion, Biblical
5616 Animals compared to objects Figures of Speech
2222 Animals compared to people Figures of Speech
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1147 Alleged Marital
397 Ancestral (First level term)
4803 Animals preying on humans Interspecies
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2014 Alley Public
3958 Ammonia Olfactory
3959 Animal / stable Olfactory

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