Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4909 | Meteor shower | Atmospheric | ||
603 | Moonlit | Atmospheric | ||
917 | Night | Atmospheric | ||
4007 | Oppressive | Atmospheric | ||
5099 | Peaceful | Atmospheric | ||
4664 | Racialized | Atmospheric | ||
4649 | Sexual | Atmospheric | ||
2234 | Spectral | Atmospheric | ||
4901 | Spiritual | Atmospheric | ||
5227 | Squalor | Atmospheric | ||
4018 | Starlight | Atmospheric | ||
2866 | Sterile | Atmospheric | ||
581 | Stillness | Atmospheric | ||
3689 | Streetlamp | Atmospheric | ||
2099 | Sunlight | Atmospheric | ||
1943 | Thunder | Atmospheric | ||
5594 | Torch-light | Atmospheric | ||
3595 | Twinkling | Atmospheric | ||
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). |
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3984 | Wetness | Atmospheric | ||
883 | Wind | Atmospheric |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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3798 | African American music | Art | ||
5377 | And civilization | Art | ||
3444 | Artistic creation | Art | ||
3272 | Christian art or iconography | Art | ||
5635 | Classical Greek | Art | ||
4720 | Classical music | Art | ||
4437 | Jazz music | Art | ||
4670 | Lithographs | Art | ||
1934 | Music | Art | ||
2377 | Objet d'art | Art | ||
1544 | Painting | Art | ||
3737 | Photograph | Art | ||
1897 | Poetry | Art | ||
761 | Power of | Art | ||
729 | Sculpture | Art | ||
517 | Advent | Arrivals/Departures | ||
1459 | Alarm | Arrivals/Departures |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
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1667 | Arrival | Arrivals/Departures | ||
2503 | Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
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 |
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1242 | Departure | Arrivals/Departures | ||
903 | Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures | ||
989 | Jailbreak | Arrivals/Departures | ||
2656 | Leaving | Arrivals/Departures | ||
2094 | Leaving home | Arrivals/Departures | ||
852 | Mysterious | Arrivals/Departures | ||
995 | Relocation | Arrivals/Departures | ||
576 | Return | Arrivals/Departures | ||
4693 | Return from war | Arrivals/Departures | ||
1280 | Return home | Arrivals/Departures | ||
4198 | Return to Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
787 | Run away | Arrivals/Departures | ||
573 | Secrecy | Arrivals/Departures |
This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR |
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5291 | Showing up | Arrivals/Departures | ||
2998 | Slipping out at night | Arrivals/Departures |
I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP |
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5231 | As character | Appearance | ||
3480 | Baldness | Appearance | ||
2322 | Beautiful/handsome | Appearance | ||
1243 | Complexion | Appearance | ||
3522 | Condition of heaviness | Appearance | ||
2090 | Cosmetics | Appearance | ||
3845 | Depth / deepness | Appearance | ||
3913 | Diminishment / fading | Appearance | ||
3605 | Dirty | Appearance | ||
3942 | Fatness / obesity | Appearance | ||
4434 | Feminine | Appearance | ||
3976 | Hair pigtails | Appearance | ||
1609 | Inscrutable | Appearance |
I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW |
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3978 | Invisibility | Appearance | ||
3920 | Librarian look | Appearance | ||
2019 | Nakedness | Appearance | ||
4197 | Nondescript | Appearance | ||
1613 | Perspective | Appearance |
I added this for "The Old People," 206.5, to describe how the narrator sees Sam Fathers growing smaller and smaller as the hunting party leaves him behind. I don't really like the term that I chose but I couldn't think of anything else. LW |
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3762 | Pretending / Feigning | Appearance | ||
4242 | Racialized | Appearance | ||
4801 | Red necks | Appearance | ||
2223 | Scruffiness | Appearance | ||
1938 | Similarity | Appearance | ||
3844 | Surface | Appearance | ||
3476 | Ugliness | Appearance | ||
3010 | Alligators | Animals | ||
2379 | Ants | Animals | ||
3263 | Bats | Animals | ||
734 | Bear | Animals | ||
3994 | Beavers | Animals | ||
1393 | Birds | Animals | ||
3011 | Bison | Animals | ||
4509 | Bluejays | Animals | ||
1260 | Bugs | Animals | ||
2467 | Bumble-bee | Animals | ||
2909 | Buzzards | Animals | ||
2722 | Cats | Animals | ||
593 | Cattle | Animals | ||
1739 | Chickens/roosters | Animals | ||
1221 | Cicadas | Animals | ||
2473 | Cows | Animals | ||
2486 | Crickets | Animals | ||
730 | Deer | Animals | ||
4008 | Dog-fox | Animals |