Keywords
Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1828 | Boxers Sullivan and Kilrain | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1829 | Boxers Dempsey and Tunney | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1852 | Commentary | Narrative | ||
| 1869 | Bonaparte, Napoleon | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1871 | Coke upon Littleton | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1872 | Josephus, Flavius | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1873 | Koran | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1874 | Mississippi Reports | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1875 | Taylor, Jeremy | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1876 | Scott, Walter | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1877 | Cooper, James Fenimore | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1878 | Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1885 | Crucifixion | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1886 | Voice | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1888 | Long sentence | Style | ||
| 1889 | Painting | Metafictional | ||
| 1890 | Demon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1891 | Chains | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1892 | Oxymoron | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1893 | Hamsa | Symbolism | ||
| 1895 | Genesis | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1901 | Anticipation | Narrative | ||
| 1902 | Disease | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1903 | Skeleton | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1904 | Ogre | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1905 | Hell | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1907 | Niobe | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1928 | Heaven | Allusion, Biblical |
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Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1830 | Named bear Ben | Animals | ||
| 1832 | Importance of naming | Naming |
When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP |
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| 1840 | Tigers | Animals | ||
| 1841 | Elephants | Animals | ||
| 1863 | Homecoming | Home | ||
| 1864 | Will to endure | Psychological | ||
| 1881 | Uncertain | Memory | ||
| 1883 | Ghost | Supernatural | ||
| 1887 | Wisteria | Objects | ||
| 1894 | Creation | Chaos/Order | ||
| 1897 | Poetry | Art | ||
| 1906 | Photograph | Objects | ||
| 1920 | Secrecy | Community | ||
| 1921 | Trauma | Psychological | ||
| 1923 | Paradox | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1924 | Honor | Morals | ||
| 1925 | Sword | Objects | ||
| 1926 | Teetotaler | Character | ||
| 1927 | Fatality | Recurring Tropes |
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Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1831 | Fame | Social | ||
| 1857 | Business partners | Commercial | ||
| 1859 | Motherhood | Familial |
As a part of one's identity. I created it when Temple Drake (in Requiem) notes that she had become a mother but never exorcised her culturally improper sexual desires. SR |
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| 1860 | Husband-wife | Familial | ||
| 1910 | Dissolution | Familial | ||
| 1912 | Master-slave | Interracial |
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Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1833 | Farming | Agricultural | ||
| 1834 | Animal predatory behavior | Violent | ||
| 1835 | Destructive behavior | Violent |
Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP |
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| 1838 | Self-consciousness | Mental | ||
| 1842 | Bragging | Verbal | ||
| 1843 | Store clerk | Work | ||
| 1844 | Restauranteer | Work | ||
| 1848 | Government | Work | ||
| 1850 | Fireman | Work | ||
| 1851 | Chewing | Bodily | ||
| 1854 | Silence | Verbal | ||
| 1858 | Historical recreation | Play | ||
| 1861 | Throwing | Physical | ||
| 1862 | Running | Physical | ||
| 1865 | Building | Physical | ||
| 1866 | Announcing | Verbal | ||
| 1867 | Eating | Physical | ||
| 1868 | Livestock care | Agricultural | ||
| 1870 | Riding | Physical | ||
| 1879 | Waiting | Physical | ||
| 1880 | Dreaming | Physical | ||
| 1882 | Lust | Emotional | ||
| 1898 | Starvation | Bodily | ||
| 1900 | Writing | Communication | ||
| 1913 | Fetching | Movement | ||
| 1914 | Running | Movement | ||
| 1915 | Hiding | Movement | ||
| 1916 | Discipline | Domestic | ||
| 1917 | Spitting | Movement | ||
| 1919 | Requesting | Verbal | ||
| 1922 | Renounce | Moral |
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Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1836 | Hunting clothes | Clothes | ||
| 1845 | Bachelor | Gender | ||
| 1846 | Yale | Education | ||
| 1849 | City government | Politics | ||
| 1853 | Colorism | Race | ||
| 1884 | Virginity | Sexuality | ||
| 1896 | North vs South | Cultural Identity | ||
| 1899 | Wedding dress | Clothes | ||
| 1909 | Fratricide | Crime |
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Term ID |
Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1837 | City | Place |
For when a place is characterized by its built-up nature, especially as a contrast to town or rural places (e.g., "the tall buildings and the hard pavements and the street cars" in "Lion"). JBP |
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| 1839 | Zoo | Public | ||
| 1855 | April | Time of Year | ||
| 1856 | Daybreak | Time of Day | ||
| 1908 | Gloom | Atmospheric | ||
| 1911 | Sunshine | Weather | ||
| 1918 | Deathbed | Domestic Space |