Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5519 | Amoral | Character | ||
| 538 | Ambitious | Character | ||
| 4747 | Ambiguous circumstances | Death | ||
| 3448 | Aloneness | Absence/Loss |
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP |
|
| 3010 | Alligators | Animals | ||
| 4447 | Alienation from nature | Exile | ||
| 2331 | Alienation | Community | ||
| 1783 | Alias | Naming | ||
| 1459 | Alarm | Arrivals/Departures |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
|
| 3252 | Airplane | Objects | ||
| 3214 | Air gun | Objects | ||
| 2232 | Afterlife | Death | ||
| 626 | African-American | Community | ||
| 3798 | African American music | Art | ||
| 5401 | Aesthetic experience | Meaning | ||
| 517 | Advent | Arrivals/Departures |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3958 | Ammonia | Olfactory | ||
| 2014 | Alley | Public | ||
| 2772 | Alcohol | Olfactory | ||
| 4414 | Airplane sound | Auditory | ||
| 5310 | Airfield | Public | ||
| 1022 | Afternoon | Time of Day |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4219 | Amiens, France | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2812 | Americans for Democratic Action | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1692 | Ambiguity | Interpretation | ||
| 485 | Ambiguity | (First level term) | ||
| 3215 | Alternative story | Narrative | ||
| 2936 | Alps | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5249 | Alma Tadema | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1098 | Allusion, Mythical | (First level term) | ||
| 1097 | Allusion, Literary | (First level term) | ||
| 406 | Allusion, Historical | (First level term) | ||
| 1096 | Allusion, Geographical | (First level term) | ||
| 1095 | Allusion, Biblical | (First level term) | ||
| 5450 | All right, all right, all right | Language | ||
| 2017 | All caps | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 3181 | Alexander | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4381 | Alabama Secession Convention | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4195 | Alabama | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3470 | Ahenobarbus | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4326 | Ah-h-h | Language | ||
| 1380 | Ah-Ah-Ah | Language | ||
| 4104 | Ah Ah Ah | Language | ||
| 4105 | ah ah ah | Language | ||
| 2663 | Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3521 | African-American folk sayings | Narrative | ||
| 690 | African American vernacular dialect | Diction | ||
| 2796 | Africa | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4099 | Affirmation | Figures of Speech |
Similar to the keyword for negation, but for when a text vaguely affirms or says yes about something. (Cf. Quentin saying "we did" and "yes Yes Yes yes" on 148-49 of SF.) JBP |
|
| 5348 | Address to reader | Style | ||
| 2695 | Adam | Allusion, Biblical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3359 | Americana | Materialism | ||
| 2423 | American Revolution | History | ||
| 1711 | American Revolution | War | ||
| 3345 | American historical myths | History | ||
| 3195 | American | Cultural Identity | ||
| 1257 | American | Nationality | ||
| 3096 | America vs Europe | Identity, Cultural | ||
| 1730 | America and opportunity | Cultural Identity | ||
| 328 | Amelioration | Slavery |
To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR |
|
| 3192 | Ambush | Violence | ||
| 635 | Ambition | Class | ||
| 1693 | Ambiguous | Identity, Personal | ||
| 4065 | Alter ego / other self | Identity, Personal | ||
| 2872 | All-male space | Gender | ||
| 1745 | Alienating | Law |
Any time the legal system alienates a person caught up in it, whether the person is guilty or not. The direct example here is Monk, but Mink Snopes is equally alienated, because he does not understand how the system works and suffers more dire consequences because of it. |
|
| 1778 | Alibi | Law | ||
| 3915 | Alcoholism | Alcohol | ||
| 465 | Alcohol | (First level term) | ||
| 3035 | Air travel | Progress | ||
| 1087 | Agriculture | (First level term) | ||
| 1635 | Agricultural | Land-Use | ||
| 4033 | Agricultural | Progress | ||
| 5606 | Agelessness | Age | ||
| 464 | Age | (First level term) | ||
| 305 | African origins | Slavery | ||
| 2347 | African American | Religion |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
|
| 897 | Aerial combat | War | ||
| 1793 | Advertising | Mass Media | ||
| 3201 | Advertising | Economy | ||
| 5349 | Adult-adolescent | Sexuality | ||
| 923 | Adolescence | Age | ||
| 1407 | Addiction | Health and Illness |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 898 | Ambush | Physical | ||
| 4263 | Ambulance | Movement | ||
| 2346 | Ambivalence | Emotional | ||
| 1572 | Ambiguity | Perceptual | ||
| 2031 | Amazement | Emotional | ||
| 4628 | Alimentary | Bodily | ||
| 4413 | Airplane crash | Violent | ||
| 5419 | Aiding and abetting | Moral | ||
| 1082 | Agricultural | (First level term) | ||
| 3370 | Addressing for mail delivery | Communication |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1147 | Alleged | Marital | ||
| 597 | Adversarial | Social | ||
| 1355 | Adultery | Marital | ||
| 858 | Adultery | Sexual | ||
| 2892 | Adult-child | Friendship | ||
| 2799 | Adult friends | Friendship | ||
| 5159 | Adoptive | Familial |