Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
749 Running Bodily
558 Rumor Verbal
3986 Rolling / wallowing Physical
967 Rivalry Interaction, Private
1870 Riding Physical
2738 Riding Military
1230 Riding Movement
4548 Rhetorical question Verbal
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).

834 Return Movement
3184 Retreat Military
4172 Reticence Verbal
4003 Retching Bodily
1081 Restraining Violent
1970 Restraining Physical
1566 Restlessness Emotional
1844 Restauranteer Work
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
787 Run away Arrivals/Departures
4444 rubber tree Objects
3463 Routine Time
4539 Rope Objects
5232 Risque Story-telling
2645 Ring Objects
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

1138 Right Morals

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

1721 Reward Money
4367 Revenge Recurring Tropes
4398 Reunion Recurring Tropes
4198 Return to Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures
2907 Return to present time Time
1280 Return home Arrivals/Departures
4693 Return from war Arrivals/Departures
576 Return Arrivals/Departures
4127 Retelling Story-telling
2416 Restoring order Chaos/Order
2631 Restoration / rebuilding Recurring Tropes
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4776 Rules of engagement War
3707 Rules / norms for addressing whites Race
4891 Rules Hunting and Fishing
4077 Royal Air Force War
765 Roads Progress
5495 Road traffic Progress
4254 Rituals and rites Religion
1629 Ritual Hunting and Fishing
475 Ritual (First level term)
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

2639 Riots Race
1716 Right of secession Government
5016 Riding Clothes
2675 Ribbons Clothes
3466 Rhodes Scholar Education
2471 Rheumatism Health and Illness
298 Revolt Slavery
904 Revenue officer Law
2492 Revenge War
4858 Revelation Religion
2686 Return to war War
2633 Return from war War
963 Return War
5737 Retribution Violence
1171 Retrial Law
4772 Retreat War
4028 Retirement Economy
2658 Reticule Clothes
3331 Resurrection Religion
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2556 Rubicon Allusion, Historical
997 Roosevelt, Franklin D. Allusion, Historical
2809 Roosevelt, Eleanor Allusion, Historical
3335 Romeo and Juliet Allusion, Literary
4363 Rome Allusion, Geographical
3659 Romance / Romanticism Genre Conventions
3462 Romance Allusion, Literary
1795 Roman senator Allusion, Historical
5593 Roman salute Allusion, Historical
5809 Roman holiday Allusion, Historical
2357 Roman consul Allusion, Historical
5623 Roman Symbolism
4391 Roland of Roncesvalles Allusion, Historical
5478 Robinson Crusoe Allusion, Literary
5018 Robinson Crusoe Allusion, Literary
2635 Ripple Figures of Speech
5049 Ringo whips Ab Recurring Episodes
5050 Rider in jail Recurring Episodes
4394 Richmond, Virginia Allusion, Geographical
2105 Richard I of England Allusion, Historical
2852 Rheims Allusion, Geographical
3081 Revisionary Narrative
1989 Revision Narrative
3369 Resumption of sentence after interruption Narrative
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1575 Romantic Interracial
404 Romantic (First level term)
700 Rivalry Commercial
725 Rivalry Intergenerational
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3973 Rodent sounds Auditory
3823 Rocks / stones Natural
691 Road Public
2805 Road Place
2044 River-bottom Place
2071 River Natural
4526 Ritual Domestic Space

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