Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4777 Shiloh Allusion, Geographical
2376 Signs Metafictional
608 Simile Figures of Speech
682 Simile-mask Figures of Speech
1903 Skeleton Figures of Speech
2595 Skull Figures of Speech
4221 Slang, military Language
4027 Slot machine Figures of Speech
4569 Smith, Al Allusion, Historical
5111 Smith, Thorne Allusion, Literary
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3428 Ship Objects
1183 Shotgun Objects
3148 Shoulder Body
5158 Shovel Objects
5291 Showing up Arrivals/Departures
4365 Shrewdness Character
2613 Sickness Supernatural
2877 Signs / Omen Supernatural
843 Silver Objects
4120 Silver dollar Money
4559 Silverware Objects
1938 Similarity Appearance
4366 Simultaneity of time Time
3582 Skin Body
2863 Skull Objects
2876 Sleeping in same bed Recurring Tropes

For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP
1455 Slipper Objects
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
5646 Slop jar Objects
2978 Smelled like trees Recurring Tropes
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4347 Ship Movement
916 Shivering Bodily
3388 Shock Emotional
5758 Shodding Work
1054 Shooting Hunting
1253 Shooting Violent
619 Shopping Interaction, Social
4759 Shopping Economic
1061 Shouting Verbal
4732 Showing Physical
1854 Silence Verbal
4425 Silence Communication
2087 Singing Verbal
1402 Singing Bodily
1408 Sitting Bodily
2783 Sitting Physical
2146 Skepticism Mental
3378 Slapping Violent
1466 Slave hunting Hunting
663 Sleeping Bodily
2757 Sleeping Physical
5336 Sleeplessness Bodily
4600 Sleepy Bodily
2800 Smelling Bodily
498 Smelling Perceptual
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
3590 Ship's wheel Technology
5510 Shipping Economy
3586 Shipping schooner Technology
3585 Shipping tugboat Technology
2630 Shirt Clothes
5321 Shirtless Clothes
3080 Shirtsleeves Clothes
1190 Shoes Clothes
861 Shooting Violence
3742 Sick as euphemism for pregnancy Health and Illness
2435 Silk Clothes
4968 Silver Shirts History
1780 Sin Religion
4145 Skirt Clothes
3356 Skyscraper Progress
306 Slave trading Slavery
248 Slavery (First level term)
289 Slaves vs masters Slavery
297 Slaves vs poor whites Slavery
2999 Sleeping pill Health and Illness
4505 Smallpox Health and Illness
3780 Smoke stack Progress
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
560 Shotgun marriage Marital
620 Sibling Familial
4131 Siblings Interracial
922 Sister-sister Familial
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort descending Parent Description
4187 Shots Auditory
4247 Shrubbery Place
3153 Sick room Domestic Space

Added to denote a room being used or described as for when someone is sick. Added to refer to the "empty" room that is also where the family "has the measles" in S&F, but can be applied in other texts as well -- Addie's room in AILD, for example. -JBP
2765 Sidewalk Public
803 Silence Auditory
5201 Siren Auditory
1987 Sitting room Domestic Space
5675 Six o'clock p.m. Time of Day
5676 Six o'clock p.m. Time of Day
3544 Sky Natural
5608 Slave market Place
2026 Slave Quarters Place
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
2240 Smelling death Olfactory
2930 Smelling trees Olfactory
3575 Smelling water Olfactory
5783 Smoke Atmospheric
4540 Smoke Olfactory
2027 Smokehouse Place

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