Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
1998 Deed Texts
730 Deer Animals
2593 Demijohn Objects
4462 Denial Death
4573 Denial Psychological
2515 Departing Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures

For characters who leave Yoknapatawpha once and for all in a text - like Bayard Sartoris at the end of Flags in the Dust or Sarty Snopes in "Barn Burning." SR

1242 Departure Arrivals/Departures
3845 Depth / deepness Appearance
764 Deracination Absence/Loss
903 Desertion-family Arrivals/Departures
4349 Design Recurring Tropes
2183 Destiny Recurring Tropes
4713 Destroyed Home
1994 Determination Values
371 Determinism (First level term)
2384 Devotion Values
4683 Dice Objects
1531 Dignity Values
3913 Diminishment / fading Appearance
3605 Dirty Appearance
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
720 Deer hunting Hunting

Event refers specifically to DEER hunting. JP

531 Defeat Moral
1654 Defeat Emotional
4625 Defecation Bodily
1133 Defending Legal

Serving as a defense attorney. JW

1076 Defiance Emotional
5622 Defining Verbal
1430 Dehumanization Violent

Treating a person through one's actions as if they are an object rather than a fellow human being. BR

1169 Deliberating Legal
2477 Delivering Physical
1536 Delivery Economic
4060 Demanding Verbal
4124 Dementia Emotional
5430 Demotion Military
4501 Denial Emotional
1492 Denial Verbal
506 Despair Emotional
3022 Destruction of enemy property Military
1835 Destructive behavior Violent

Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP

2356 Detachment Emotional
971 Dialogue Verbal
1493 Digging Physical
1217 Dipping snuff Bodily
3651 Direction east Movement
909 Disagreeing Verbal
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
5724 Deere, Alan Christopher Allusion, Historical
5729 Deere, Alan Christopher Allusion, Historical
5661 DeFrance, Abraham Allusion, Historical
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.

3421 Delayed decoding Description

Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR

1751 Delayed revelation Narrative

Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later.

3484 Delilah Allusion, Biblical
1890 Demon Allusion, Mythical
2458 Demosthenes Allusion, Historical
5624 Derogatory socio-economic term Diction
1099 Description (First level term)
2374 Desert island Figures of Speech
4749 Detective fiction Genre Conventions
3281 Dialogue with no quotation marks Typography/Orthography
5467 Dickens, Charles Allusion, Literary
3782 Dickinson, Emily Allusion, Literary
3230 Dickson Allusion, Historical
407 Diction (First level term)
1698 Dillinger, John Allusion, Historical
5245 Dionysus Allusion, Mythical
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
718 Defeat War
2698 Dehumanization Class
3009 Deist Religion
4267 Delirium Health and Illness
4971 Demagoguery Politics
2900 Democracy Politics
2577 Democrat 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

781 Demographics Government
320 Demographics Slavery

For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR

2134 Demotion War
5183 Denim Clothes
4992 Dependable Food
894 Deployment War
3196 Depression-era programs Government
1478 Deprivation War

Individuals or groups who have been deprived of resources and comfort. JB

4763 Desertion War
1565 Desire Sexuality
2702 Destruction War
4711 Developmental problems Health and Illness
3227 Diminishing farms Agriculture
2459 Dirty Clothes
3968 Dirty girl Gender
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
699 Delta Natural
951 Delta rivers Natural
1437 Dereliction Atmospheric
827 Devastation Atmospheric
2926 Dew Natural
1796 Dilapidation Domestic Space
977 Dining room Domestic Space
1433 Dinner Time of Day
3559 Dirt / Earth Natural
4804 Dirt lane Place
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4359 Descendants Familial
1233 Desertion Marital
3811 Desertion Sexual

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