Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3162 Failure to defend honor Futility
2623 Fairy-tale Recurring Tropes
2408 Faith Morals
2172 Faithfulness Values

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP

1210 False name Naming
2857 Family history Past
4476 Family honor Values
4250 Family values Values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP

2466 Fan Objects
4205 Farming tools Objects
1927 Fatality Recurring Tropes
2532 Fated Determinism

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR

3279 Father said Recurring Tropes
3942 Fatness / obesity Appearance
4434 Feminine Appearance
530 Fence Objects
5253 Fiddle Objects
1252 Filthy lucre Money

When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW

3554 Fingers Body
1112 Fire Objects
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1318 Fainting Bodily
3642 Falling Bodily
3901 Familiarity Perceptual
1304 Family history Verbal
3327 Fantasizing Mental
1833 Farming Agricultural
813 Farming Work
4169 Fascination Emotional
4608 Fasting Bodily
4607 Fasting Physical
2263 Fatalism Mental
505 Fear Emotional
1236 Feeding Domestic
3078 Feeling pain Bodily
4996 Female gathering Interaction, Social
2542 Ferry Movement
1913 Fetching Movement
550 Fighting Violent
2127 Finding Physical

For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP

Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
544 Fall Time of Year
4893 Familiar Atmospheric
866 Farm Place
881 Farm Place
1229 February Time of Year
3785 Fecundity / lushness Natural
4313 Field Domestic Space
1023 Field Place
1756 Filling Station Public
3429 Fire Natural
5264 Fire Atmospheric
5612 Fire Olfactory
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1831 Fame Social
400 Familial (First level term)
5281 Family as shackle Familial
1067 Father in law-son in law Marital
565 Father-daughter Familial
514 Father-son Familial
4108 Father-son in law Familial
4452 Favoritism Familial
3764 Fellow alumni of a college or university Social
610 Female Intergenerational
836 Fiance Romantic
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
313 Family Slavery
4851 Family role Identity, Personal
5153 Fanaticism Religion
2915 Fancy Clothes
1447 Fantasy Mass Media

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR

3753 Fantasy Sexuality
3634 Farming Agriculture
1010 Farming Labor
1154 Farming life Agriculture
5552 Fear of sex Sexuality
5461 Federal Bureau of Investigation Government
1735 Federal laws and regulations Government
5555 Federal vs state crime Law
1360 Female Sexuality
3991 Female body Gender
2516 Female education Education
5263 Female in peril Gender
1477 Female intuition Gender

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers

3481 Female stereotype Gender
4006 Feminine man Gender
639 Femininity Gender
3355 Ferris wheel Entertainment
5604 Fetishism Sexuality
1442 Fever Health and Illness
307 Field slaves vs house slaves Slavery
4129 Financial independence Identity, Personal
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2611 Fantasy Narrative

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC

1370 Farce Tone
1278 Fate Allusion, Mythical
2802 Faulkner text Intertextuality
2300 Faustus Allusion, Literary
3789 Female monsters Allusion, Mythical
3692 Fertilise / Fertility imagery Figures of Speech
5107 Fielding, Henry Allusion, Literary
5314 Fields, Lew Allusion, Historical

Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB

408 Figures of Speech (First level term)
3872 Fire Figures of Speech
4054 Fire Symbolism

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