Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4198 Return to Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures
4398 Reunion Recurring Tropes
4367 Revenge Recurring Tropes
1721 Reward Money
1138 Right Morals

As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW

5329 Right-of-way Recurring Tropes

Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR

2645 Ring Objects
5232 Risque Story-telling
4539 Rope Objects
3463 Routine Time
4444 rubber tree Objects
787 Run away Arrivals/Departures
1995 Running out Time
2024 Ruthless Character
3123 Sacrifice Values
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
2888 Revealing Verbal

Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212).

4548 Rhetorical question Verbal
1870 Riding Physical
2738 Riding Military
1230 Riding Movement
967 Rivalry Interaction, Private
3986 Rolling / wallowing Physical
558 Rumor Verbal
1862 Running Physical
1914 Running Movement
749 Running Bodily
1601 Running away Movement
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4858 Revelation Religion
2492 Revenge War
904 Revenue officer Law
298 Revolt Slavery
2471 Rheumatism Health and Illness
3466 Rhodes Scholar Education
2675 Ribbons Clothes
5016 Riding Clothes
1716 Right of secession Government
2639 Riots Race
2940 Rite of passage Age

Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB

1629 Ritual Hunting and Fishing
475 Ritual (First level term)
4254 Rituals and rites Religion
5495 Road traffic Progress
765 Roads Progress
4077 Royal Air Force War
4891 Rules Hunting and Fishing
3707 Rules / norms for addressing whites Race
4776 Rules of engagement War
3386 Running water Technology
602 Rural Identity, Cultural
5296 Rural industry Economy
643 Rural poverty Clothes
1368 Rural sales Economy
1759 Rural school Education
2712 Rural South Region
5453 Russian Revolution History
1935 Sabbath Religion
2705 Sabotage War
4192 Sacramental Hunting and Fishing
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1989 Revision Narrative
3081 Revisionary Narrative
2852 Rheims Allusion, Geographical
2105 Richard I of England Allusion, Historical
4394 Richmond, Virginia Allusion, Geographical
5050 Rider in jail Recurring Episodes
5049 Ringo whips Ab Recurring Episodes
2635 Ripple Figures of Speech
5478 Robinson Crusoe Allusion, Literary
5018 Robinson Crusoe Allusion, Literary
4391 Roland of Roncesvalles Allusion, Historical
5623 Roman Symbolism
2357 Roman consul Allusion, Historical
5593 Roman salute Allusion, Historical
1795 Roman senator Allusion, Historical
3462 Romance Allusion, Literary
3659 Romance / Romanticism Genre Conventions
4363 Rome Allusion, Geographical
3335 Romeo and Juliet Allusion, Literary
2809 Roosevelt, Eleanor Allusion, Historical
997 Roosevelt, Franklin D. Allusion, Historical
2556 Rubicon Allusion, Historical
979 Rural vernacular Diction
4519 Russia Allusion, Geographical
2837 Ruth, George Herman "Babe" Allusion, Historical
3459 Sabatini, Rafael Allusion, Historical
4369 Sabine people Allusion, Historical
2328 Sacrifice Figures of Speech
4632 Sacrificial Animal Allusion, Biblical
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4526 Ritual Domestic Space
2071 River Natural
2044 River-bottom Place
691 Road Public
2805 Road Place
3823 Rocks / stones Natural
3973 Rodent sounds Auditory
4000 Running sound Auditory
557 Rural Place
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
700 Rivalry Commercial
725 Rivalry Intergenerational
1575 Romantic Interracial
404 Romantic (First level term)

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