Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4544 Humility Character
4919 Hunting Story-telling
2451 Hunting horn Objects
4966 Hypocrisy Character
1398 Hypocrisy Morals
2476 Ice Objects
5272 Idealism Values
5439 Ill-gotten Money
2314 Illusion Recurring Tropes
3172 Illusion of success or victory Futility
3222 Imagination Values
4677 Imagined Death
2366 Imitation Recurring Tropes
1832 Importance of naming Naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP

2679 Impotence Character

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC

4525 Improvements Home
3253 Impulsiveness Character
5023 In battle Futility
1349 In childbirth Death
1561 In nature Home
1723 In prospect Money
4641 Inability Futility
5123 Income Inheritance
1187 Independence Character
683 Independence Values
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
998 Humorous Tone
3229 Humphries Allusion, Historical
3679 Hunting metaphor / imagery Figures of Speech
2230 Hymn Language
3324 Hymn "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" Allusion, Literary
3296 Hymn "Holy Matrimony" Allusion, Literary
932 Hyperbole Figures of Speech
3169 Hyphen Typography/Orthography
5457 I.W.W.|Industrial Workers of the World Allusion, Historical
5075 Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom" Recurring Episodes
1805 Imagined conversation Narrative

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR

1804 Imitation Diction

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR

4821 Impermanence Symbolism
3670 Incongruous Tone
613 Indeterminacy Narrative
3036 Index Style
1636 Indian Language
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1163 Hung jury Law
954 Hunter Identity, Personal
758 Hunting Ritual
470 Hunting and Fishing (First level term)
1836 Hunting clothes Clothes
2587 Husbandry Agriculture

Any part of a text related to the care and breeding of animals. The immediate context for this is on an actual farm, as for example Mink's attempt to breed his cow with a local bull. It also extends out to any knowledge of animals for the purposes of domestication or labor. For example, Lucius Priest being able to identify a horse as "three-quarters-bred" in The Reivers, though the horse itself is not on a farm. JB

4684 Hymns Religion
3061 Hypocritical Identity, Personal
2440 Ice-cream Food
3052 Idealization Gender
436 Identity, Cultural (First level term)
471 Identity, Personal (First level term)
582 Illegitimacy Sexuality
1761 Illiteracy Education
1346 Imaginary Negro men Race
2138 Imagined Violence
5222 Immigration History
3928 Immigration|Immigrants Nationality
2773 Immodest female clothing Clothes
5571 Impaired vision Health and Illness
1275 Implied shooting Violence
2504 Imported Slavery

To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR

3082 Impotence Sexuality
2944 Incarceration Law

There are already a number of similar words in the keyword list that denote some type of legal confinement. This one is meant to indicate the general concept of going to jail, not the direct action of someone being sent to jail or prison. JB

3290 Incest Sexuality
4916 Indian / Native American wars War
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1743 Hungering Bodily
345 Hunting (First level term)
2297 Hurried Emotional
3339 Hurrying Movement
3761 Hurting Emotional
1742 Hushing Verbal
2109 Hysteria Emotional
970 Idleness Bodily
2177 Imagining Mental
2207 Impairment Mental
1058 Impatience Emotional
685 Impounding Economic
3329 Inaction / Not doing something Physical
3555 Inattentativeness Mental
1724 Incarcerating Interaction, Social
4751 Incompetent farming Agricultural
3804 Incomprehension Mental
4355 Incredulity Emotional
3394 Indebtedness Economic
1785 Indecision Emotional
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
757 Hunting camps Place
3817 Hunting horn Auditory
2045 Hunting season Time of Year
5287 Ice Weather
3603 Ice floes / iceberg Atmospheric
3962 Immigrant neighborhood Domestic Space
4946 Indian agency Place
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
769 Hunting party Intergenerational
1860 Husband-wife Familial
674 Husband-wife Marital
4179 Inappropriate Sexual
987 Indian Ancestral

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