Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|
| 2344 | Christmas Eve | Time of Year | ||
| 1197 | Christmas | Time of Year | ||
| 4031 | Chicken coop / hen house | Domestic Space | ||
| 3623 | Chapel | Public | ||
| 1669 | Chaos | Atmospheric | ||
| 3890 | Cemetery | Place |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3542 | Christmas holiday traditions | Ritual | ||
| 3529 | Christmas gift game | Ritual | ||
| 4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
| 5693 | Christening | Religion | ||
| 662 | Chivalry | Gender | ||
| 2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
| 1288 | Childhood | Age | ||
| 1291 | Child abuse | Violence | ||
| 826 | Chickasaw | Race | ||
| 3688 | Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender | ||
| 3829 | Chastity / purity | Gender | ||
| 3297 | Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education | ||
| 2294 | Changing relationships | Gender |
Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB |
|
| 2047 | Changing customs | Modernity | ||
| 4271 | Changing clothes | Clothes | ||
| 3395 | Change of environment | Health and Illness |
Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW |
|
| 4736 | Chancellor | Law | ||
| 2920 | Champagne | Alcohol | ||
| 2137 | Challenge | Religion |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
|
| 5283 | Chain gang | Law | ||
| 4805 | Cemetery decorations | Ritual |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4709 | Christmas card | Texts | ||
| 3272 | Christian art or iconography | Art | ||
| 1320 | Chivalry | Morals | ||
| 3995 | Chins | Body | ||
| 3536 | Childlike | Character | ||
| 2684 | Child's name | Naming | ||
| 4997 | Child | Death | ||
| 1739 | Chickens/roosters | Animals | ||
| 4119 | Check | Money | ||
| 4675 | Chastity belt | Objects | ||
| 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 |
|
| 4656 | Charity | Values | ||
| 366 | Character | (First level term) | ||
| 385 | Chaos/Order | (First level term) | ||
| 1369 | Chaos | Chaos/Order | ||
| 2433 | Change over time | Naming | ||
| 2034 | Chandlier | Objects | ||
| 2340 | Chamber pot | Objects | ||
| 3066 | Chair | Objects | ||
| 745 | Census | Texts |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2506 | Christian | Symbolism | ||
| 1336 | Christ | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 5414 | China | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3788 | Chimera / Chimaera | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5228 | Child's perspective | Narrative | ||
| 2955 | Chickhahominy River | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4811 | Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2167 | Chicago | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3903 | Chess imagery stalemate | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4443 | Chess | Figures of Speech | ||
| 2882 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5117 | Chateau-Thierry | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3241 | Charleston, South Carolina | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3579 | Charles River | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1153 | Character portrait | Description | ||
| 966 | Character portrait | Style | ||
| 5451 | Chaplin, Charlie | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1891 | Chains | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4303 | Cervantes, Miguel de | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3423 | Cerberus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5405 | Central Park | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1496 | Centaur | Allusion, Mythical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1059 | Chopping wood | Physical | ||
| 902 | Chopping wood | Work | ||
| 1212 | Chopping | Agricultural | ||
| 1440 | Choking | Bodily | ||
| 2192 | Children playing | Play | ||
| 1237 | Childbirth | Bodily | ||
| 4336 | Child-rearing | Domestic | ||
| 4472 | Child support | Economic | ||
| 5290 | Child labor | Agricultural | ||
| 1209 | Child care | Domestic | ||
| 1851 | Chewing | Bodily | ||
| 2730 | Chess | Play | ||
| 2729 | Checkers | Play | ||
| 3757 | Cheating | Moral | ||
| 2436 | Chatter | Verbal | ||
| 1498 | Chasing | Movement | ||
| 3931 | Chase | Physical | ||
| 1754 | Charity | Interaction, Social |
Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB |
|
| 2914 | Charge/accuse | Legal | ||
| 3450 | Chanting | Verbal | ||
| 1340 | Channeling | Mental |
An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR |
|
| 3002 | Changing one's mind | Mental | ||
| 4213 | Censorship | Communication |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3505 | Childlessness | Familial | ||
| 1298 | Childhood friends | Friendship | ||
| 1519 | Child-adult | Interracial | ||
| 1397 | child protection | Civic | ||
| 678 | Child as authority | Hierarchical | ||
| 2725 | Charity | Civic | ||
| 4086 | Certificate | Marital |