Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3566 Punning Verbal
1036 Questioning Verbal
3631 Reading aloud Verbal
2628 Rebel yell Verbal
3128 Refusing Verbal
4956 Renunciation Verbal
4010 Repetition Verbal
1919 Requesting Verbal
4083 Responding Verbal
4172 Reticence 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).

4548 Rhetorical question Verbal
558 Rumor Verbal
1344 Screaming Verbal
2748 Self-justifying Verbal
3100 Sharing confidences Verbal
1061 Shouting Verbal
1854 Silence Verbal
2087 Singing Verbal
4603 Social criticism Verbal
519 Speculation Verbal
1755 Speech Verbal

Any time someone give a speech, in this case Monk. JB

3139 Stating intent to leave home / run away Verbal
1185 Storytelling Verbal
4002 Stuttering / stammering Verbal
2734 Swearing Verbal
753 Talking Verbal
637 Taunt Verbal
2111 Teasing Verbal
2325 Telling Verbal
5680 Thanking Verbal
563 Threat Verbal
2720 Tirade Verbal
2605 Ultimatum Verbal
2519 Vowing Verbal
1269 Warning Verbal
4647 Whimper Verbal
1077 Whispering Verbal
3127 Wishing Verbal
868 Withholding Verbal
5224 Writing Verbal
2752 Yelling Verbal
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
1571 Bad conduct Values
4656 Charity Values
2092 Conscience Values
2938 Conservatism Values

Here conservatism is meant as a value and is politically agnostic. It is roughly being used as prudence, common sense, and tradition all wrapped up in one. JB

684 Courage Values
2400 Decorum Values
1994 Determination Values
2384 Devotion Values
1531 Dignity Values
2526 Durability Values
3065 Evil Values
2172 Faithfulness Values

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP

4476 Family honor Values
4250 Family values Values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP

1559 Good conduct Values
1104 Greed Values
864 Honor Values
5272 Idealism Values
3222 Imagination Values
683 Independence Values
1115 Justice Values
1695 Liberty Values
1583 Love Values
510 Loyalty Values
5154 Misogyny Values
1630 Moral authority Values
2195 Propriety Values
2406 Providence Values
2883 Refinement Values
3123 Sacrifice Values
4797 Selflessness Values
4427 Success Values
591 Truth/Lies Values
912 Valor Values
2296 Virtue Values
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
2017 All caps Typography/Orthography
3005 Capitalization Typography/Orthography
5007 Dash Typography/Orthography
3281 Dialogue with no quotation marks Typography/Orthography
1308 Dots Typography/Orthography

This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR

4520 Drawing of an eye Typography/Orthography
5010 Drawing of delta Typography/Orthography
5637 Ellipses Typography/Orthography
598 Handwriting Typography/Orthography
3169 Hyphen Typography/Orthography
1542 Inscription Typography/Orthography
516 Italics Typography/Orthography
2307 Lack of Punctuation Typography/Orthography
1963 Onomatopoeia Typography/Orthography
1964 Spacing Typography/Orthography
1792 Square brackets Typography/Orthography
933 Underlining Typography/Orthography
1386 Absurdist Tone
3251 Apocalyptic Tone
742 Elegiac Tone
1370 Farce Tone
998 Humorous Tone
3670 Incongruous Tone

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