Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4826 Cockrum Allusion, Historical
4577 Cockrum Allusion, Geographical
2838 Cobb, Ty Allusion, Historical
4072 Coal dust Figures of Speech
2190 Clytemnestra Allusion, Mythical
3372 Cloud Figures of Speech
5480 Clostermann, Pierre Allusion, Historical
4121 Cleveland, Grover Allusion, Historical
4152 Cleansing power of water Symbolism
3847 Clean flame Figures of Speech
5663 Clay, Henry Allusion, Historical
1991 Clay Figures of Speech
3170 Classical rhetoric Allusion, Literary
5492 Clarksdale, Mississippi Allusion, Geographical
5662 Claiborne, William C. C. Allusion, Historical
3228 Claiborne Allusion, Historical
3176 Cincinnatus Allusion, Historical
4522 Cicero Allusion, Literary
5477 Churchill, Winston Allusion, Historical
4277 Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough Allusion, Historical
2096 Chronological enjambment Narrative

When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other.

2506 Christian Symbolism
1336 Christ Allusion, Biblical
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5493 Coca-Cola Food
2116 Coat Clothes
1776 Clue Law
1643 Clothing Gender
466 Clothes (First level term)
1513 Clothes Race
2362 Cloak Clothes
958 Clearing the land Progress
2889 Clean Clothes
644 Class consciousness Class
4248 Class conflict Class
239 Class (First level term)
3490 Civil War consequences War
3491 Civil War consequences History
1556 Civil War as point of reference History
292 Civil War Slavery
2101 Civil War War
3183 Civil War History
5261 Civil suit Law
4981 Civil Rights legislation History
2514 Civic officials Government
3033 Civic events Entertainment
2412 Civic boosterism Economy
4737 Civic Ritual
1849 City government Politics
3662 Circus Entertainment
3298 Church service Religion
3542 Christmas holiday traditions Ritual
3529 Christmas gift game Ritual
4515 Christianity Religion
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3815 Coal oil Objects
646 Clock Objects
4720 Classical music Art
5635 Classical Greek Art
1678 Civic records Texts
4051 Citizenship papers Texts
5406 Cigarette lighter Objects
3800 Cigarette Objects
1042 Cigar Objects
1221 Cicadas Animals
4709 Christmas card Texts
3272 Christian art or iconography Art
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3895 Club Social
2058 Clan Familial
1321 Civil marriage Marital
398 Civic (First level term)
5323 Church-Town Institutional

Relationship between any of the Churches and the Town in which they are situated. The specific example here is that even though Reverend Schultz and his church found a new clerk to replace Uncle Willy, no one trusted the new stranger.

Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2493 Cloud Weather
4240 Closet Domestic Space
3500 Clock tower Public
3070 Clock ticking Auditory
3320 Clock chiming Auditory
2185 Claustrophobic Atmospheric
1760 Classroom Place
1837 City Place

For when a place is characterized by its built-up nature, especially as a contrast to town or rural places (e.g., "the tall buildings and the hard pavements and the street cars" in "Lion"). JBP

2487 Cigar Olfactory
3869 Church steeple Public
1942 Church Public
2732 Church Place
4850 Christmas, figuratively Time of Year

Any time someone refers to Christmas in relation to it being a particularly auspicious day. In this case, it is being used by "Uncle Willy" to describe when he'll be in California (242). JB

2344 Christmas Eve Time of Year
1197 Christmas Time of Year
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5168 Climbing/descending rope Physical
1164 Climbing tree Physical
3140 Climbing stairs Physical
3970 Climbing Physical
2755 Clearing land Physical
1205 Cleaning Domestic
1145 Claim Legal
1704 Civic dispute Interaction, Social
1729 Civic discussion Interaction, Social
4314 Churning butter Work
2713 Church Interaction, Social
1059 Chopping wood Physical
902 Chopping wood Work
1212 Chopping Agricultural
1440 Choking Bodily

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