Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4689 Subpoena Law
3694 Subservient / Obsequious to whites Race
4589 Subverting a stereotype Race
4352 Sugar Food
2097 Suit Clothes
1034 Sunday clothes Clothes
5288 Sunday school Religion
1047 Sunday shoes Clothes
476 Supernatural (First level term)
3045 Surgery Health and Illness
3046 Surgical castration Health and Illness
763 Surrender War
3187 Surrender at Appomattox History
4929 Tartan Clothes
3458 Taste Gender
1216 Taxes Politics
4724 Taxes, local Government
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
4283 Substitute Home
4427 Success Values
1223 Suffering Philosophical
1537 Suicide Death
1391 Suitcase Objects
1933 Sun / Sunlight Recurring Tropes
4479 Superhuman strength Character
384 Supernatural (First level term)
3134 Superstitions Supernatural
5446 Supportive Community
3844 Surface Appearance
1647 Surrey Objects
4886 Suspicious Death
2088 Swagger Character
4503 Swallows Animals
2975 Swing Objects
1925 Sword Objects
4255 Symbolism Body

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR

4046 Table Objects
4748 Taboos Community
5643 Tankard Objects
2076 Tarpaulin Objects
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
5445 Suckling, John Allusion, Literary
3242 Sugar Islands|Carribbean Allusion, Geographical
2315 Summary Narrative
5270 Suspended|Resumed Narrative
4107 Suspense Narrative
5057 Sutpen rejects KKK Recurring Episodes
5052 Sutpen's arrival Recurring Episodes
3741 Swallows Figures of Speech
4090 Swine Figures of Speech
2784 Sword Allusion, Biblical
1101 Symbolism (First level term)
3151 Synesthesia Figures of Speech

For when description in a text merges sensory perceptions. Added for when Benjy in S&F describes "hearing it getting night ... hearing it getting dark." -JBP

4135 Syria Allusion, Geographical
1973 Tableau Description
4122 Taft, President Allusion, Historical
2367 Talisman Figures of Speech
501 Tall tale Genre Conventions
5083 Tallahatchie River Allusion, Geographical
2566 Tamerlane Allusion, Historical
4931 Tarleton, Banastre Allusion, Historical
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1400 Suicide Violent
3142 Sulking Emotional
1158 Summation Legal
4073 Suppression / trying not to think Mental
1489 Surprise Emotional
2550 Surrey Movement
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
2381 Suspicion Emotional
3967 Swallowing Bodily
2426 Swearing Communication
2734 Swearing Verbal
1431 Sweating Bodily
3993 Sweetness Perceptual
1749 Swimming Movement
3392 Sympathy Emotional
887 Tailor Work
2479 Taking Physical
3049 Taking without paying Economic

Somewhat distinct from stealing; this is for when someone confiscates, keeps, or otherwise takes something for which payment might ordinarily be expected. (The incident of the golfer keeping the golf ball that Luster tries to sell to him, for example.) -JBP

753 Talking Verbal
2921 Tasting Perceptual
637 Taunt Verbal
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3507 Sulfur Olfactory
611 Summer Time of Year
1474 Summer house Domestic Space
1786 Sun Weather
4808 Sunday Time of Day
1752 Sunday Time of Year

This should probably go under day of the week in col. 2, but it does not exist. My thinking is that there might be days that are more pronounced in Faulkner, notably the Sabbath and Wednesday prayer. The specific example is from Monk.

2710 Sunday morning Time of Day
2099 Sunlight Atmospheric
5191 Sunrise Time of Day
1220 Sunset Time of Day
1911 Sunshine Weather
706 Supper Time of Day
688 Supper table Domestic Space
1495 Supply house Public
1595 Swamp Natural
2817 Sweat Olfactory
1270 Tavern Place
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
5285 Support|Neglect Familial
1562 Surrogate Familial

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