Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5523 | Cumberland County, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3051 | Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4612 | Cyclical | Narrative | ||
| 1686 | Damocles sword | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3851 | Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5436 | Das Kapital | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5007 | Dash | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 2662 | Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5481 | Daymond | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3552 | De Soto, Hernando | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5069 | De Spain creates camp | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5223 | Dead-eye Dick | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3516 | Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1688 | Debunking story | Interpretation | ||
| 5661 | DeFrance, Abraham | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4446 | Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech |
Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary. |
|
| 3421 | Delayed decoding | Description |
Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR |
|
| 1751 | Delayed revelation | Narrative |
Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later. |
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| 3484 | Delilah | Allusion, Biblical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5683 | Cup | Objects | ||
| 5534 | Curmudgeonly | Character | ||
| 3165 | Curtains | Objects | ||
| 3079 | Cushion | Objects | ||
| 4281 | Cyclical | Time | ||
| 2196 | Damask | Objects | ||
| 4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2343 | Dead time | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5226 | Deadpan | Story-telling | ||
| 370 | Death | (First level term) | ||
| 3332 | Death by water / Drowning | Death | ||
| 4799 | Death certificate | Texts | ||
| 2980 | Death sentence | Death | ||
| 2257 | Deathbed | Death | ||
| 3411 | Decoration Day | Community | ||
| 2400 | Decorum | Values | ||
| 1998 | Deed | Texts | ||
| 730 | Deer | Animals | ||
| 2593 | Demijohn | Objects |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4193 | Cure | Health and Illness | ||
| 326 | Curse | Slavery | ||
| 1244 | Custody | Law | ||
| 4788 | Cyclical | Violence | ||
| 5563 | Daily life | Segregation | ||
| 3328 | Damnation | Religion | ||
| 4682 | Dancing | Entertainment | ||
| 714 | Deafness | Health and Illness | ||
| 535 | Death | War | ||
| 3916 | Death from drinking | Alcohol | ||
| 2007 | Declasse | Class |
Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers |
|
| 718 | Defeat | War | ||
| 2698 | Dehumanization | Class | ||
| 3009 | Deist | Religion | ||
| 4267 | Delirium | Health and Illness | ||
| 4971 | Demagoguery | Politics | ||
| 2900 | Democracy | Politics |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4987 | Curiosity | Mental | ||
| 2745 | Curious | Emotional | ||
| 605 | Cursing | Verbal | ||
| 1511 | Curtsy | Physical | ||
| 5135 | Cutting | Physical | ||
| 3171 | Cynicism | Emotional | ||
| 5255 | Dances | Interaction, Social | ||
| 2131 | Dancing | Physical | ||
| 4338 | Daring | Verbal | ||
| 3556 | Day-dreaming | Mental | ||
| 5087 | Debating | Verbal | ||
| 1467 | Decay | Non-human | ||
| 713 | Deception | Moral | ||
| 5129 | Deciding | Mental | ||
| 1593 | Decomposition | Bodily | ||
| 4591 | Deduction | Mental | ||
| 720 | Deer hunting | Hunting |
Event refers specifically to DEER hunting. JP |
|
| 531 | Defeat | Moral | ||
| 1654 | Defeat | Emotional | ||
| 4625 | Defecation | Bodily | ||
| 1133 | Defending | Legal |
Serving as a defense attorney. JW |
|
| 1076 | Defiance | Emotional | ||
| 5622 | Defining | Verbal | ||
| 1430 | Dehumanization | Violent |
Treating a person through one's actions as if they are an object rather than a fellow human being. BR |
|
| 1169 | Deliberating | Legal | ||
| 2477 | Delivering | Physical | ||
| 1536 | Delivery | Economic | ||
| 4060 | Demanding | Verbal | ||
| 4124 | Dementia | Emotional |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 537 | Customer relations | Commercial | ||
| 908 | Death | Romantic | ||
| 3118 | Death of spouse | Marital |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4825 | Dangerous | Atmospheric | ||
| 870 | Dark | Atmospheric | ||
| 698 | Dawn | Time of Day | ||
| 1856 | Daybreak | Time of Day | ||
| 2069 | Daytime | Time of Day | ||
| 1918 | Deathbed | Domestic Space | ||
| 607 | Decay | Olfactory | ||
| 4665 | Decayed house | Place | ||
| 4613 | Decayed plantation | Place | ||
| 774 | December | Time of Year | ||
| 5306 | Decomposition | Olfactory | ||
| 699 | Delta | Natural | ||
| 951 | Delta rivers | Natural |