Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
5027 Jenny arrives Recurring Episodes
5028 Colonel Sartoris killed Recurring Episodes
5029 Bayard avenges Johnny Recurring Episodes
5030 Johnny Sartoris shot down Recurring Episodes
5031 Byron robs bank Recurring Episodes
5032 Young Bayard's death Recurring Episodes
5033 Narcissa's anonymous letters Recurring Episodes
5034 Benjy accosts schoolgirl Recurring Episodes
5035 Miss Quentin runs away Recurring Episodes
5036 Benjy's name changed Recurring Episodes
5037 Texas horses auctioned Recurring Episodes
5038 Burying Sartoris silver Recurring Episodes
5039 Doom becomes chief Recurring Episodes
5040 Sartoris builds railroad Recurring Episodes
5041 Old Frenchman's arrival Recurring Episodes
5042 First settlers arrive Recurring Episodes
5043 Indian removal Recurring Episodes
5044 Sartoris raises regiment Recurring Episodes
5045 Sartoris deposed Recurring Episodes
5046 Battle of Jefferson Recurring Episodes
5047 Etching name on window Recurring Episodes
5048 Buck and Buddy's experiment Recurring Episodes
5049 Ringo whips Ab Recurring Episodes
5050 Rider in jail Recurring Episodes
5051 Nancy confronts white man Recurring Episodes
5052 Sutpen's arrival Recurring Episodes
5053 Boon shoots Negro Recurring Episodes
5054 General Compson's military record Recurring Episodes
5055 Byron Snopes' children Recurring Episodes
5056 Architect captured Recurring Episodes
5057 Sutpen rejects KKK Recurring Episodes
5058 Confederate monument unveiled Recurring Episodes
5059 Jefferson's first car Recurring Episodes
5060 Flem and Eula marry Recurring Episodes
5061 Looking upon evil Recurring Episodes
5062 Temple leaves train Recurring Episodes
5063 Driving to Goodwin's Recurring Episodes
5064 Temple at Goodwin's Recurring Episodes
5065 Temple at Reba's Recurring Episodes
5066 Temple testifying Recurring Episodes
5067 Popeye's execution Recurring Episodes
5068 Henry kills Bon Recurring Episodes
5069 De Spain creates camp Recurring Episodes
5070 Houston murdered Recurring Episodes
5071 Eula's medallion unveiled Recurring Episodes
5072 McCarron ambushed Recurring Episodes
5073 Caddy's wedding Recurring Episodes
5074 Caddy's marriage ends Recurring Episodes
5075 Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom" Recurring Episodes
5076 Quentin's suicide Recurring Episodes
5077 Ab's war wound Recurring Episodes
5078 Sartoris escapes Yankees Recurring Episodes
5204 Benjy committed Recurring Episodes
5206 Will Mayes lynched Recurring Episodes
5207 Compsons sell pasture Recurring Episodes
5208 Compson land acquired Recurring Episodes
5210 Harriss' death Recurring Episodes
5211 Mannie's death Recurring Episodes
5212 Mannie Hait cashes check Recurring Episodes
5213 Confederate raid in Memphis Recurring Episodes
5215 Flem reaches Jefferson Recurring Episodes
5217 Narcissa marries Bayard Recurring Episodes
5218 Bayard and the lost generation Recurring Episodes
5219 Trying to kill Gualdres Recurring Episodes
5220 Plantation to housing development Recurring Episodes
5611 Benjy castrated Recurring Episodes
5630 Wash kills Sutpen Recurring Episodes
5631 Wash charges posse Recurring Episodes
5632 Ab Snopes at De Spain's house Recurring Episodes
5665 Tommy's murder Recurring Episodes
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
609 Door Recurring Tropes
779 Trying to say Recurring Tropes
785 Going to Texas Recurring Tropes
845 Sexual power Recurring Tropes
867 Gossip Recurring Tropes
873 Upward mobility Recurring Tropes
875 Fire on the hearth Recurring Tropes
1024 Twilight Recurring Tropes
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
1177 Endurance Recurring Tropes
1202 "Wait" Recurring Tropes

Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW

1256 Going fast Recurring Tropes
1259 Tomorrow and tomorrow Recurring Tropes
1332 Nothingness Recurring Tropes
1352 Life as repetition Recurring Tropes
1541 Scandal Recurring Tropes
1923 Paradox Recurring Tropes
1927 Fatality Recurring Tropes
1933 Sun / Sunlight Recurring Tropes
1948 Threshold Recurring Tropes
1950 Triumph Recurring Tropes
1982 Belatedness Recurring Tropes
1985 Open secret Recurring Tropes

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB

2023 Dream Recurring Tropes
2030 Solitude Recurring Tropes
2181 Precognition / Something to happen Recurring Tropes

For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP

2183 Destiny Recurring Tropes
2204 Confederate monument Recurring Tropes
2310 Performance Recurring Tropes
2314 Illusion Recurring Tropes

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