Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Description | |
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2511 | Chasing a person | Recurring Tropes |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
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4675 | Chastity belt | Objects | ||
4119 | Check | Money | ||
1739 | Chickens/roosters | Animals | ||
4997 | Child | Death | ||
2684 | Child's name | Naming | ||
3536 | Childlike | Character | ||
3995 | Chins | Body | ||
1320 | Chivalry | Morals | ||
3272 | Christian art or iconography | Art | ||
4709 | Christmas card | Texts | ||
1221 | Cicadas | Animals | ||
1042 | Cigar | Objects | ||
3800 | Cigarette | Objects | ||
5406 | Cigarette lighter | Objects | ||
4051 | Citizenship papers | Texts | ||
1678 | Civic records | Texts |
Term ID |
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Parent | Description | |
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3829 | Chastity / purity | Gender | ||
3688 | Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender | ||
826 | Chickasaw | Race | ||
1291 | Child abuse | Violence | ||
1288 | Childhood | Age | ||
2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
662 | Chivalry | Gender | ||
5693 | Christening | Religion | ||
4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
3529 | Christmas gift game | Ritual | ||
3542 | Christmas holiday traditions | Ritual | ||
3298 | Church service | Religion | ||
3662 | Circus | Entertainment | ||
1849 | City government | Politics | ||
4737 | Civic | Ritual | ||
2412 | Civic boosterism | Economy | ||
3033 | Civic events | Entertainment | ||
2514 | Civic officials | Government | ||
4981 | Civil Rights legislation | History | ||
5261 | Civil suit | Law | ||
292 | Civil War | Slavery | ||
2101 | Civil War | War | ||
3183 | Civil War | History | ||
1556 | Civil War as point of reference | History | ||
3490 | Civil War consequences | War | ||
3491 | Civil War consequences | History |
Term ID |
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Parent | Description | |
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5117 | Chateau-Thierry | Allusion, Historical | ||
2882 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical | ||
4443 | Chess | Figures of Speech | ||
3903 | Chess imagery stalemate | Figures of Speech | ||
2167 | Chicago | Allusion, Geographical | ||
4811 | Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical | ||
2955 | Chickhahominy River | Allusion, Geographical | ||
5228 | Child's perspective | Narrative | ||
3788 | Chimera / Chimaera | Allusion, Mythical | ||
5414 | China | Allusion, Geographical | ||
1336 | Christ | Allusion, Biblical | ||
2506 | Christian | Symbolism | ||
2096 | Chronological enjambment | Narrative |
When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other. |
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4277 | Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough | Allusion, Historical | ||
5477 | Churchill, Winston | Allusion, Historical | ||
4522 | Cicero | Allusion, Literary | ||
3176 | Cincinnatus | Allusion, Historical | ||
3228 | Claiborne | Allusion, Historical | ||
5662 | Claiborne, William C. C. | Allusion, Historical |
Term ID |
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Parent | Description | |
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2436 | Chatter | Verbal | ||
3757 | Cheating | Moral | ||
2729 | Checkers | Play | ||
2730 | Chess | Play | ||
1851 | Chewing | Bodily | ||
1209 | Child care | Domestic | ||
5290 | Child labor | Agricultural | ||
4472 | Child support | Economic | ||
4336 | Child-rearing | Domestic | ||
1237 | Childbirth | Bodily | ||
2192 | Children playing | Play | ||
1440 | Choking | Bodily | ||
1212 | Chopping | Agricultural | ||
1059 | Chopping wood | Physical | ||
902 | Chopping wood | Work | ||
2713 | Church | Interaction, Social | ||
4314 | Churning butter | Work | ||
1729 | Civic discussion | Interaction, Social | ||
1704 | Civic dispute | Interaction, Social | ||
1145 | Claim | Legal |
Term ID |
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Parent | Description | |
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4031 | Chicken coop / hen house | Domestic Space | ||
1197 | Christmas | Time of Year | ||
2344 | Christmas Eve | Time of Year | ||
4850 | Christmas, figuratively | Time of Year |
Any time someone refers to Christmas in relation to it being a particularly auspicious day. In this case, it is being used by "Uncle Willy" to describe when he'll be in California (242). JB |
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1942 | Church | Public | ||
2732 | Church | Place | ||
3869 | Church steeple | Public | ||
2487 | Cigar | Olfactory | ||
1837 | City | Place |
For when a place is characterized by its built-up nature, especially as a contrast to town or rural places (e.g., "the tall buildings and the hard pavements and the street cars" in "Lion"). JBP |
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Parent | Description | |
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678 | Child as authority | Hierarchical | ||
1397 | child protection | Civic | ||
1519 | Child-adult | Interracial | ||
1298 | Childhood friends | Friendship | ||
3505 | Childlessness | Familial | ||
5323 | Church-Town | Institutional |
Relationship between any of the Churches and the Town in which they are situated. The specific example here is that even though Reverend Schultz and his church found a new clerk to replace Uncle Willy, no one trusted the new stranger. |
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398 | Civic | (First level term) | ||
1321 | Civil marriage | Marital | ||
2058 | Clan | Familial |