Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1293 | Vomiting | Bodily | ||
| 4986 | Visualize | Mental | ||
| 1539 | Visiting | Interaction, Social | ||
| 356 | Violent | (First level term) | ||
| 3260 | Violence against animals | Violent | ||
| 2188 | Vindictive | Emotional | ||
| 355 | Verbal | (First level term) | ||
| 1277 | Vengeful | Emotional | ||
| 943 | Vengeance | Violent | ||
| 4629 | Urinating | Bodily | ||
| 2428 | Unsent message | Communication | ||
| 2067 | Unknowable | Perceptual |
This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP |
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| 1367 | Undressing | Physical | ||
| 981 | Understanding | Mental |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4729 | Voltaire | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1886 | Voice | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4560 | Virginia | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4494 | Virgil | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3787 | Violent in figurative sense | Figures of Speech |
For when a text uses "violent" in a figurative sense for things not actually violent -- violent fecundity, for instance, or "cheap violent blues" of someone's clothing. JBP |
|
| 3636 | Vicksburg | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4813 | Vicksburg | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1279 | Vestal | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 4170 | Vernacular | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5251 | Venus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3430 | Venice | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2719 | Vardaman, James K. | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4323 | Van Dorn, Earl | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2341 | Vampire | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3728 | Valley of the shadow of death | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 5444 | Valhalla | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3239 | Utah Beach | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3107 | Unspecified shapes | Ambiguity | ||
| 2211 | Unreliable narrator | Narrative | ||
| 4293 | University of Virginia | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2293 | University of Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4982 | Unidentified character | Narrative | ||
| 3830 | Unicorn | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1267 | Unfinished sentence | Style | ||
| 933 | Underlining | Typography/Orthography |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1800 | Voices | Auditory | ||
| 3966 | Vines | Natural | ||
| 770 | Veranda | Domestic Space | ||
| 5175 | Valley | Natural | ||
| 5357 | Valentine's Day | Time of Year | ||
| 2125 | Vacant lot | Place | ||
| 1326 | Vacant house | Place | ||
| 2770 | Urine | Olfactory | ||
| 1461 | Upstairs | Domestic Space | ||
| 2983 | Unseen voice | Auditory | ||
| 4183 | Unfamiliar place | Atmospheric |
When the action of a story takes someone into a place they've never been before, for example the "strange country" that the chase of the deer reaches in "Race at Morning" (301). |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2598 | Voice | Body | ||
| 3417 | Vitality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5498 | Vision | Supernatural | ||
| 2296 | Virtue | Values | ||
| 2848 | Violent | Character | ||
| 4256 | Vegetation | Objects | ||
| 3431 | Vase | Objects | ||
| 2025 | Vanity | Character | ||
| 1000 | Vanishing Indian | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4210 | Vanishing | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 395 | Values | (First level term) | ||
| 912 | Valor | Values | ||
| 1550 | Using Indians as names | Naming | ||
| 873 | Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4783 | Upliftment | Community |
Whenever a member of the community takes it upon him or herself to "uplift" the rest of the members of the community, whether they want to be uplifted or not. The specific example is John Sartoris in The Unvanquished who has grand plans for the people of Jefferson (223). |
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| 4294 | Unsynchronized clocks | Time | ||
| 2104 | Unruliness | Character | ||
| 3832 | Unnatural / Contrary to nature | Philosophical | ||
| 4752 | Unknowable | Character |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4406 | Visit | Ritual | ||
| 1884 | Virginity | Sexuality | ||
| 2993 | Virginia | Education | ||
| 4828 | Violence against civilians | War | ||
| 277 | Violence | Slavery | ||
| 249 | Violence | (First level term) | ||
| 1424 | Vigilantism | Crime |
This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR |
|
| 1342 | Vicarious | Sexuality | ||
| 5544 | Veterans Administration | Government | ||
| 5318 | Veterans | War |
This is a general marker for anything to do with veterans. The specific instance is the relationship between Jock and Captain Warren in "Death Drag." Although this is technically a "relationship" between veterans, the occurrence is so rare that it makes more sense to create a generic term. |
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| 1744 | Vest | Clothes | ||
| 5654 | Venereal disease | Health and Illness | ||
| 1670 | Veil | Clothes | ||
| 5535 | Valedictorian | Education | ||
| 1747 | Vagrancy | Crime | ||
| 1464 | Usurpation | Government | ||
| 4762 | Using a Negro as messenger | Race | ||
| 1733 | US Post Office | Government | ||
| 1734 | US Bureau of Indian Affairs | Government | ||
| 4869 | Urban | Clothes | ||
| 5342 | Uppitiness | Race | ||
| 1231 | Unspecified sickness | Health and Illness | ||
| 5381 | University of Mississippi | Education | ||
| 1456 | Unity | War |
This keyword describes the way in which war calls upon disparate people to fight for the same ideal. The specific example this is based on is Southerners ultimately fighting in the United States army in later wars, but could also described the camaraderie between allied nations. Joost Burgers |
|
| 737 | Union Army | War | ||
| 891 | Uniform | Clothes | ||
| 5592 | Unemployment | Labor | ||
| 555 | Undressing | Clothes |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4058 | Violence | Marital | ||
| 1334 | Vicarious wedding | Marital | ||
| 2947 | Unrequited | Romantic |