Keywords

Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID	Term	Parent
1325	Heartbeat	Auditory
1326	Vacant house	Place
1329	Evoking memory	Olfactory
1348	Hospital	Place
1356	Confused din	Auditory
1362	Corral	Place
1371	Boarding house	Domestic Space
1394	Bus Depot/Bus stop	Public
1399	Jail	Public
1403	Cabin	Domestic Space
1410	Lane	Place
1412	Haunting	Auditory

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID	Term	Parent	Description
1327	Absence	Absence/Loss
1331	Absence as loss	Absence/Loss
1332	Nothingness	Recurring Tropes
1333	Obsession	Psychological
1343	Letters	Texts
1345	When will it stop	Futility
1347	Lack of choice	Determinism
1349	In childbirth	Death
1350	Car accident	Death
1352	Life as repetition	Recurring Tropes
1369	Chaos	Chaos/Order
1385	Capture as loss	Absence/Loss
1387	Out of ordered place	Chaos/Order	This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR
1388	Bible	Objects
1391	Suitcase	Objects
1393	Birds	Animals
1395	knife	Objects
1398	Hypocrisy	Morals
1401	Pregnancy	Body
1404	Terror	Psychological
1417	Renaming	Naming	When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR

Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID	Term	Parent	Description
1328	Separated	Marital
1334	Vicarious wedding	Marital
1351	Invented	Familial
1354	Abandonment	Marital
1355	Adultery	Marital
1366	Physical discipline	Familial
1381	Exigent circumstances	Familial
1384	Physical resemblances	Familial
1397	child protection	Civic
1406	Jailer-prisoner	Institutional
1418	Homosocial	Social
1420	Isolation	Social	This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR Also used this term when a person intentionally isolates him/herself from the larger community. JJ

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID	Term	Parent	Description
1335	Insomnia	Bodily
1338	Professional surveillance	Perceptual
1339	Gaining weight	Bodily
1340	Channeling	Mental	An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR
1341	Exultation	Emotional
1344	Screaming	Verbal
1359	Scheming	Economic
1363	Nosiness	Perceptual
1367	Undressing	Physical
1373	Escape	Non-human
1376	Dressing	Physical
1382	For room and board	Work
1383	Overhearing	Perceptual
1389	Kissing	Physical
1390	Bus	Movement
1392	Sadness	Emotional
1396	Joking	Verbal
1400	Suicide	Violent
1402	Singing	Bodily
1405	Arrest	Legal
1408	Sitting	Bodily
1411	Protection	Physical
1413	Stalking	Physical
1415	Telephone	Communication

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID	Term	Parent
1336	Christ	Allusion, Biblical
1361	Sarcastic	Tone
1364	Pause	Narrative
1370	Farce	Tone
1380	Ah-Ah-Ah	Language
1386	Absurdist	Tone
1423	Pathetic fallacy	Figures of Speech
1425	Ellipsis	Language

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID	Term	Parent	Description
1337	Frustration	Sexuality
1342	Vicarious	Sexuality
1346	Imaginary Negro men	Race
1353	As substitute	Food
1357	Snopesism	Class
1358	Socio-economic	Prejudice
1360	Female	Sexuality
1365	Maternal impulse	Gender
1368	Rural sales	Economy
1372	Accident	Violence
1374	Underclothes, male	Clothes
1375	Underclothes, female	Clothes
1377	Injured	Health and Illness
1378	Nursing	Health and Illness
1379	Doctoring	Health and Illness
1407	Addiction	Health and Illness
1409	Self-abnegation	Race
1414	Racist child	Race
1416	Cars	Progress
1419	Work	Migration	This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR
1421	Dress	Clothes
1422	Unattractiveness	Sexuality
1424	Vigilantism	Crime	This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR

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