Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
969 Manslaughter Crime
3934 Moonshining Crime
750 Murder Crime
4877 Numbers Crime
990 Penalty for Crime
3838 Prevention Crime
2986 Prostitution Crime
5282 Racialized Crime
4634 Rape Crime
4938 Sedition Crime
592 Theft|Robbery Crime
4939 Treason Crime
1747 Vagrancy Crime
1424 Vigilantism Crime

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR

4780 Voter fraud Crime
2001 Waistcoat Crime
1730 America and opportunity Cultural Identity
3195 American Cultural Identity
5375 And nationality Cultural Identity
2447 Anglophile Cultural Identity
3661 Country vs city Cultural Identity
4698 Jewish Cultural Identity
3031 Lost Cause Cultural Identity
3207 Multiculturalism Cultural Identity
1896 North vs South Cultural Identity
4745 Outlander Cultural Identity
2388 Puritan Cultural Identity
4849 Savagism Cultural Identity
3663 Southern identity Cultural Identity
4819 Trans-regional Cultural Identity
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
2232 Afterlife Death
4747 Ambiguous circumstances Death
4428 And inheritance Death
2082 Animal bear Death
2073 Animal Dog Death
2910 Animal horse Death
4535 Animal mule Death
3099 Anticipation of death Death
2911 Bones Death
2265 Burial Death
5694 Burial society Death
1350 Car accident Death
4997 Child Death
1790 Coffin Death
3721 Compared to living Death
3842 Compared to sleep Death
1788 Corpse Death
3332 Death by water / Drowning Death
2980 Death sentence Death
2257 Deathbed Death
4462 Denial Death
4408 Disease Death
3841 Dying wish Death
4335 Epitaph Death
2699 Eulogy Death
988 Execution Death
931 Funeral Death
3717 Funeral pyre / cremation Death
844 Future Death
2878 Hearse Death
4677 Imagined Death
1349 In childbirth Death
985 Indian burial practices Death
3917 Killing oneself slowly Death
4933 Left for dead Death
3303 Like death Death
3419 Liminal Death

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP

3270 Longing for death Death
2790 Moment of Death
4790 Moving a dead body Death
2229 Murder Death
5352 Of parent Death
4440 Plane accident Death
3518 Preparing for death Death
3861 Respect Death
945 Response to Death
4746 Spousal Death
1537 Suicide Death
4886 Suspicious Death
2846 Wake Death

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
2270 Animate/Inanimate Description
1153 Character portrait Description
3646 Color blue Description
3645 Color bronze Description
3583 Color brown Description
3822 Color gray Description
3786 Color green Description
4075 Color lilac Description
4507 Color maroon Description
3584 Color of leaf tobacco Description
3961 Color pink Description
4508 Color purple Description
3144 Color red Description
3897 Color white Description
3873 Color yellow Description
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

1204 Eyes Description
5243 Grotesque Description
2551 Landscape Description
4215 Location portrait Description

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