Keywords

Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4481 Music Auditory
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
4430 Architecture Public
4429 House Olfactory
4415 Saturday night Time of Day
4414 Airplane sound Auditory
4412 Barber shop Public
4396 Camp-fire smoke Olfactory
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4480 Evaluate exchange value Economy
4474 Leprosy Health and Illness
4471 Economic speculation Economy
4470 Anti-Semitism Prejudice
4468 Easter Ritual
4466 Infection Health and Illness
4465 Car tire Technology
4464 Missing school Education
4463 Consolation Religion
4459 As anaesthetic Alcohol
4458 Blessing Religion
4456 Heresy Religion
4454 camp meeting Religion
4453 Free Will Religion
4449 Modernist style Modernity

When text makes fairly explicit reference to "modernism" as a movement, like the cubistic bug in As I Lay Dying or the modernist lampstand in Sanctuary. SR

4438 Flapper Gender
4435 Truancy Education
4432 Homogeneity Progress
4426 And class Clothes
4420 Middle age Age
4410 Barnstorming Entertainment
4409 Burglary Law
4407 Profiting from war War
4406 Visit Ritual
4402 Rags Clothes
4397 Bivouac fires War
4390 Caste system Class
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4479 Superhuman strength Character
4478 Self-righteousness Character
4477 Money order Money
4476 Family honor Values
4469 Insect boll weevil Animals
4462 Denial Death
4460 Helpless Character
4457 Maternity Meaning
4447 Alienation from nature Exile
4444 rubber tree Objects
4441 Epitaph Texts
4440 Plane accident Death
4437 Jazz music Art
4434 Feminine Appearance
4428 And inheritance Death
4427 Success Values
4424 Stranger Community

I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj)

4423 Flashlight Objects
4421 tent Objects
4419 Accounts Texts
4418 Substitute Absence/Loss
4417 Camera Objects
4408 Disease Death
4401 Hatchet Objects
4399 Glory Recurring Tropes
4398 Reunion Recurring Tropes
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4475 Leprosy Allusion, Biblical
4451 Battle of Lookout Mountain Allusion, Historical
4448 Madame Bovary Allusion, Literary
4446 Dehumanizing Figures of Speech

Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary.

4445 Temporal discontinuity Narrative

When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR

4443 Chess Figures of Speech
4442 Battle of Ronceavaux Pass Allusion, Historical
4436 California Allusion, Geographical
4433 Housman, A.E. Allusion, Literary
4403 Poe, Edgar Allan Allusion, Literary
4400 Pickett's Charge Allusion, Historical
4395 Narrative shift Narrative
4394 Richmond, Virginia Allusion, Geographical
4393 Duke John of Lorraine Allusion, Historical
4392 Bertrand du Guesclin Allusion, Historical
4391 Roland of Roncesvalles Allusion, Historical
4389 Battle of Corinth Allusion, Historical
4388 Battle of Vicksburg Allusion, Historical
4387 Battle of Franklin Allusion, Historical
4386 Battle of Chickamauga Allusion, Historical
4385 Georgia Allusion, Geographical
4382 Narrative anomaly Narrative
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4473 Asking for money Economic
4472 Child support Economic
4467 Receiving mail Communication
4431 Work song Bodily
4425 Silence Communication
4422 Bicycle Movement
4416 Jumping Bodily
4413 Airplane crash Violent
4411 Limping Bodily
4405 Moralizing Verbal
4404 Howling Verbal
4384 Rescue Military
4383 Anguish Emotional
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
4461 Man-fish Interspecies
4455 Pastor-congregant Hierarchical
4452 Favoritism Familial
4439 Dynasty Familial

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