Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 4592 | Speaking | Communication |
| Term ID |
Term |
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 |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2597 | Stone | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5311 | Stereotypical Jewish accent | Diction |
Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB |
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| 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 |
| Term ID |
Term |
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 |
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| 1809 | Squirrel | Animals | ||
| 4746 | Spousal | Death | ||
| 2385 | Spell | Supernatural | ||
| 3318 | Sparrow | Animals |
| Term ID |
Term |
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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 4023 | Spectacles | Clothes |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3837 | Stepparent-child | Familial | ||
| 1013 | Spousal privilege | Marital |