Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3424 Monologue Verbal
4160 Moment of vision Perceptual

For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR

2218 Moaning Emotional
2711 Mixed-race gathering Interaction, Social
2219 Misunderstanding Mental
3982 Misspeaking Verbal
4586 Missing work Work
1563 Misreading Perceptual
4663 Miscommunication Communication
3223 Miscarriage Bodily
3731 Miners / mining Work
2687 Mimicking Physical
3797 Milling Work
5267 Milking a cow Agricultural
1207 Milking Domestic
349 Military (First level term)
2701 Migration Movement
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1282 Money|Wealth Absence/Loss
4477 Money order Money
382 Money (First level term)
2790 Moment of Death
3245 Mockingbird Animals
4148 Missing Absence/Loss
5154 Misogyny Values
3160 Misinterpretation Meaning
2629 Mirror Objects
2497 Milk Objects
4626 Military equipment Objects
3188 Military defeat Absence/Loss
3023 Military communications Texts
4666 Mice Animals
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
559 Monday morning Time of Day
5641 Monday Time of Day
4147 Monday Time of Year
5181 Monastery Place
4984 Mill Place
5269 Milk Olfactory
4840 Military camp Place
2153 Mild Weather
614 Midnight Time of Day
3690 Midday Time of Day
5170 Mid-week Time of Year
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5603 Modernization Modernity
440 Modernity (First level term)
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

3199 Modern fashions Clothes
567 Mob behavior Group Mentality
793 Mixed race Race
542 Mistrial Law
4273 Mistaken identity Identity, Personal
3044 Mistaken for sexual assault Violence
4464 Missing school Education
874 Missing person Law
1569 Misconduct Hunting and Fishing
279 Miscegenation Slavery
1587 Miscegenation Race
1762 Miscarriage of justice Law
4094 Mint julep Alcohol
316 Minstrelsy Slavery

Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR

5653 Milk Food
2414 Militia muster Government
4784 Military service War

Whenever a character did or did not serve in the military during war. In this case, it is Redmond in The Unvanquished (225), but another example is Percy Grimm. JHB

4274 Military reassignment War
3708 Military rank of general War
4226 Military education Education
4228 Military awards War
2682 Military Clothes
1089 Migration (First level term)
308 Middle passage Slavery
4420 Middle age Age
624 Middle Class
5351 Mexican Rebellion History
2861 Mexican War
2106 Methodism Religion
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5265 Mock-heroic Tone
3219 Mistinguett Allusion, Historical
3754 Misspelling Language
4779 Missouri Allusion, Geographical
5772 Mississippi Valley Allusion, Geographical
3551 Mississippi River Allusion, Geographical
1874 Mississippi Reports Allusion, Historical
5526 Mississippi Delta Allusion, Geographical
2886 Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
5035 Miss Quentin runs away Recurring Episodes
5435 Miss America Allusion, Historical
3305 Misogynistic wording Diction
4142 Mirror Figures of Speech
2634 Mirage Figures of Speech
1004 Minstrelsy Genre Conventions
5437 Milton, John Allusion, Literary
3446 Milton, John Allusion, Historical
2156 Military terminology Figures of Speech
2329 Military analogy Figures of Speech
5229 Middle Ages Allusion, Historical
3368 Mid-sentence insertion of another thought Narrative
4380 Mexico Allusion, Geographical
2130 Metonym Figures of Speech
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1540 Minister and parishioner Institutional
776 Military Institutional
4974 Military Interracial

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