Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1843 Store clerk Work
4889 Stopping Movement
5746 Stomping Physical
2119 Stock trading Economic

Term for those who buy or sell "stock" - horses, mules, etc. -JBP

2517 Steamboat Movement
1113 Stealing Moral
3139 Stating intent to leave home / run away Verbal
1898 Starvation Bodily
3908 Starting over Physical
5140 Starting fire Physical
1072 Staring Bodily
4588 Standing guard Legal
5136 Standing Bodily
1413 Stalking Physical
2750 Stabbing Violent
1817 Squirrel hunting Hunting
5120 Squatting Physical
1604 Squatting Bodily
2283 Spying Perceptual

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB

2205 Sports Golf Play
3591 Sports Crew / rowing Play
3840 Sport-fencing Play
1917 Spitting Movement
2288 Spitting Bodily
1755 Speech Verbal

Any time someone give a speech, in this case Monk. JB

519 Speculation Verbal
1234 Speculation Mental
4576 Spectate Interaction, Social

Whenever a group of people are watching an event unfold. For example, when the soldiers watch Buck and Buddy play cards in the Unvanquished (50). JB

4592 Speaking Communication
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
491 Store Public
3783 Stone wall Place
581 Stillness Atmospheric
2866 Sterile Atmospheric
2221 Stars Natural
4018 Starlight Atmospheric
3399 Starch Olfactory
2610 Stairway Domestic Space
4838 Stable Place
1020 Stable Domestic Space
5227 Squalor Atmospheric
1822 Spring Natural
551 Spring Time of Year
2894 Spring Place
4901 Spiritual Atmospheric
2234 Spectral Atmospheric
2960 Speakeasy Place
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2597 Stone Figures of Speech
5311 Stereotypical Jewish accent Diction

Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB

3877 Stencil Figures of Speech
5602 Steamboat race Allusion, Historical
5708 Stalin, Joseph Allusion, Historical
2319 Stage manager Figures of Speech
3056 Stage direction Description
2881 St. Louis Allusion, Geographical
1792 Square brackets Typography/Orthography
5438 Spenser, Edmund Allusion, Literary
4579 Spanish-American War Allusion, Historical
5705 Spanish Civil War Allusion, Historical
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1740 Stomach/belly Body
2217 Stolen Money
4484 stoic Character
3068 Stingy with money Money
3418 Stillness Recurring Tropes
710 Still Objects
918 Steamboat Objects
1527 Stained glass window Objects
5755 Stability Community

This particular term is in reference to The Hamlet where the Snopeses disrupt the natural order of things, but then the community of Frenchman's Bend returns to its old ways. It is a cycle of disruption and stability, where a return to normalcy is prized above all else. JB

1809 Squirrel Animals
4746 Spousal Death
2385 Spell Supernatural
3318 Sparrow Animals
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2546 Stolen valor War

Whenever someone claims to have fought in a war, but it is implied that he (always he) did not do so. This comes up quite a bit in Faulkner. JB

4319 Stockings Clothes
1940 Stereotype: teeth Race
837 Stereotype: smell Race
991 Stereotype sweat Race
4584 Stereotype Superstitious Race
1499 Stereotype mule Race
4566 Stereotype lower intelligence Race
3939 Stereotype librarian / school teacher Gender
872 Stereotype eyes Race
1124 Stereotype cannibalism Race
3647 Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity Race
5511 Steamboats Technology
3533 Steam locomotive Technology
5761 Steak Food
1258 Status, low Class
2059 Status Materialism

Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers.

3026 State laws and regulations Government
5517 State government Government
3004 State capital Government
1014 Spousal privilege Law
731 Sports Clothes
1487 Spoils War
1634 Spiritual Land-Use
541 Spinsterhood Age
2289 Speed Modernity

Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB

4023 Spectacles Clothes
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3837 Stepparent-child Familial
1013 Spousal privilege Marital

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