Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 785 | Going to Texas | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 867 | Gossip | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2474 | Hands in pockets | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2314 | Illusion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2366 | Imitation | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4905 | Killing first deer/marked with blood | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4483 | Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1352 | Life as repetition | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3271 | Little sister | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2659 | Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2622 | Mediation | Recurring Tropes |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
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| 1332 | Nothingness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2653 | Odor | 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 |
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| 1923 | Paradox | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2310 | Performance | 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 |
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| 2626 | Reality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2946 | Recovery | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2631 | Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4398 | Reunion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4367 | Revenge | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5329 | Right-of-way | Recurring Tropes |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
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| 1541 | Scandal | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2453 | Searching | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2383 | Secret | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3043 | Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 845 | Sexual power | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3064 | Shadows | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2876 | Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
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| 2978 | Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3746 | Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2592 | Solitary | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2030 | Solitude | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2607 | Sound of a gunshot | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3418 | Stillness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1933 | Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3539 | Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1948 | Threshold | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1259 | Tomorrow and tomorrow | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2609 | Touch | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1950 | Triumph | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 779 | Trying to say | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1024 | Twilight | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 873 | Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4210 | Vanishing | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3417 | Vitality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4910 | Year the stars fell | Recurring Tropes |
Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4830 | Hapless Yankees | Region | ||
| 1219 | Hospitality | Region | ||
| 948 | Lost Cause | Region | ||
| 5182 | New England | Region | ||
| 1582 | North | Region | ||
| 1652 | Reconstruction | Region | ||
| 2712 | Rural South | Region | ||
| 1155 | The South | Region |
When a narrator or character explicitly foregrounds the region as distinctive, problematic, or otherwise noteworthy. JW |
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| 1574 | The West | Region | ||
| 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 |
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| 1479 | Amulet | Religion | ||
| 4857 | And class | Religion | ||
| 3876 | Apotheosis | Religion | ||
| 4556 | Atheism | Religion | ||
| 5383 | Baptism | Religion | ||
| 1641 | Baptist | Religion | ||
| 1471 | Bible | Religion | ||
| 4458 | Blessing | Religion | ||
| 4454 | camp meeting | Religion | ||
| 2808 | Catholicism | Religion | ||
| 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 |
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| 2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
| 5693 | Christening | Religion | ||
| 4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
| 3298 | Church service | Religion | ||
| 4596 | Communion | Religion | ||
| 4463 | Consolation | Religion | ||
| 3328 | Damnation | Religion | ||
| 3009 | Deist | Religion | ||
| 3109 | Divine judgment | Religion | ||
| 1642 | Episcopal | Religion | ||
| 5153 | Fanaticism | Religion | ||
| 5103 | Folk superstition | Religion | ||
| 4820 | Forgiveness | Religion | ||
| 4453 | Free Will | Religion | ||
| 3612 | God | Religion | ||
| 3614 | God with human characteristics | Religion |
For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP |
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| 961 | Godhead | Religion | ||
| 4456 | Heresy | Religion | ||
| 3715 | Hinduism | Religion | ||
| 4684 | Hymns | Religion | ||
| 1929 | Institutional | Religion | ||
| 2807 | Islam | Religion | ||
| 4554 | Judaism | Religion | ||
| 4753 | Lay preacher | Religion | ||
| 5476 | Martyrdom | Religion | ||
| 2798 | Mason | Religion |
Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB |
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| 2106 | Methodism | Religion | ||
| 1971 | Piety | Religion | ||
| 5452 | Pre-Christian | Religion | ||
| 3137 | Preacher / Minister | Religion | ||
| 4555 | Presbyterian | Religion |