Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2805 | Road | Place | ||
| 2044 | River-bottom | Place | ||
| 2071 | River | Natural | ||
| 4526 | Ritual | Domestic Space | ||
| 3493 | Restaurant | Public |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700 | Rivalry | Commercial | ||
| 725 | Rivalry | Intergenerational |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 967 | Rivalry | Interaction, Private | ||
| 1870 | Riding | Physical | ||
| 2738 | Riding | Military | ||
| 1230 | Riding | Movement | ||
| 4548 | Rhetorical question | Verbal | ||
| 2888 | Revealing | Verbal |
Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212). |
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| 834 | Return | Movement | ||
| 3184 | Retreat | Military | ||
| 4172 | Reticence | Verbal | ||
| 4003 | Retching | Bodily | ||
| 1081 | Restraining | Violent | ||
| 1970 | Restraining | Physical | ||
| 1566 | Restlessness | Emotional | ||
| 1844 | Restauranteer | Work | ||
| 4083 | Responding | Verbal | ||
| 2086 | Respect | Emotional | ||
| 3115 | Resignation | Emotional | ||
| 1972 | Resentment | Emotional | ||
| 4610 | Rescuing | Physical | ||
| 4384 | Rescue | Military | ||
| 1919 | Requesting | Verbal | ||
| 2917 | Repression | Mental | ||
| 4010 | Repetition | Verbal | ||
| 2788 | Repentance | Emotional | ||
| 1819 | Repair | Physical | ||
| 4956 | Renunciation | Verbal | ||
| 1192 | Renting | Economic |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4254 | Rituals and rites | Religion | ||
| 1629 | Ritual | Hunting and Fishing | ||
| 475 | Ritual | (First level term) | ||
| 2940 | Rite of passage | Age |
Any challenge or ritualized moment in which a person goes from child to adult. The other option here is coming of age, but felt like a more passive, ambiguous movement over time, when what is meant here is someone having an active, singular moment in which he or she becomes an adult. For example, Lucius winning the horse race in The Reivers (274). JB |
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| 2639 | Riots | Race | ||
| 1716 | Right of secession | Government | ||
| 5016 | Riding | Clothes | ||
| 2675 | Ribbons | Clothes | ||
| 3466 | Rhodes Scholar | Education | ||
| 2471 | Rheumatism | Health and Illness | ||
| 298 | Revolt | Slavery | ||
| 904 | Revenue officer | Law | ||
| 2492 | Revenge | War | ||
| 4858 | Revelation | Religion | ||
| 2686 | Return to war | War | ||
| 2633 | Return from war | War | ||
| 963 | Return | War | ||
| 1171 | Retrial | Law | ||
| 4772 | Retreat | War | ||
| 4028 | Retirement | Economy | ||
| 2658 | Reticule | Clothes | ||
| 3331 | Resurrection | Religion | ||
| 562 | Respectability | Class | ||
| 312 | Resistance | Slavery |
To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR |
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| 1677 | Requirements | Progress | ||
| 1794 | Republicanism | Politics | ||
| 2576 | Republican | Politics |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
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| 322 | Reproduction | Gender | ||
| 4989 | Renting housing | Economy |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5232 | Risque | Story-telling | ||
| 2645 | Ring | Objects | ||
| 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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| 1138 | Right | Morals |
As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
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| 1721 | Reward | Money | ||
| 4367 | Revenge | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4398 | Reunion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4198 | Return to Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 2907 | Return to present time | Time | ||
| 1280 | Return home | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4693 | Return from war | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 576 | Return | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4127 | Retelling | Story-telling | ||
| 2416 | Restoring order | Chaos/Order | ||
| 2631 | Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1161 | Responsibility | Morals | ||
| 1226 | Responsibility | Character | ||
| 945 | Response to | Death | ||
| 3861 | Respect | Death | ||
| 2108 | Resolve | Character | ||
| 2649 | Reputation | Character | ||
| 4224 | Repression | Psychological | ||
| 3013 | Repetition | Past |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2635 | Ripple | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5049 | Ringo whips Ab | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5050 | Rider in jail | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 4394 | Richmond, Virginia | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2105 | Richard I of England | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2852 | Rheims | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3081 | Revisionary | Narrative | ||
| 1989 | Revision | Narrative | ||
| 3369 | Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative | ||
| 4178 | Reported narration passim in section | Narrative | ||
| 4165 | Reported narration passim | Narrative | ||
| 2081 | Reported narration | Narrative |
For when a character reports what some other character has told him/her about something that has happened - typically for things that the narrator was not present to see in person. -JBP |
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| 1939 | Replica | Figures of Speech | ||
| 982 | Repetition | Narrative |