Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1063 Dowry Money
1062 Well Objects
1056 Peace Psychological
1052 Quail Animals
1042 Cigar Objects
1041 Truck Objects
1040 Wagon Objects
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
1024 Twilight Recurring Tropes
1006 Freedom Philosophical
1003 Insight Supernatural
1002 Wildcats Animals
1001 Watch Objects
1000 Vanishing Indian Absence/Loss
999 Panther Animals
995 Relocation Arrivals/Departures
989 Jailbreak Arrivals/Departures
988 Execution Death
985 Indian burial practices Death
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1061 Shouting Verbal
1059 Chopping wood Physical
1058 Impatience Emotional
1057 Naming self Verbal
1054 Shooting Hunting
1051 Quail hunting Hunting
1039 Crossing Movement
1036 Questioning Verbal
1033 Negotiation Verbal
1017 Driving Movement
986 Law enforcement Work
981 Understanding Mental
976 Leadership Interaction, Social
975 Jealousy Emotional
971 Dialogue Verbal
970 Idleness Bodily
967 Rivalry Interaction, Private
964 Arguing Verbal
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1060 Dusk Time of Day
1053 Quail season Time of Year
1046 Foyer Place
1038 Town Square Public
1025 Yard Domestic Space
1023 Field Place
1022 Afternoon Time of Day
1020 Stable Domestic Space
1019 Gate Domestic Space
1008 Backyard Domestic Space
1005 Railroad log line Place
994 Race Domestic Space
984 Racial confusion Domestic Space
977 Dining room Domestic Space
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1055 Conflict Marital
1037 Conflict Interracial
1029 Arrangements Marital
1021 Kinship Familial
1013 Spousal privilege Marital
1012 Conflict Familial
987 Indian Ancestral
973 Landlord-tenant Commercial
965 Parents-children Familial
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1050 Presidential administration Politics
1048 Wedding license Law
1047 Sunday shoes Clothes
1045 Professional Class
1044 Wealth Economy
1043 Elite Class
1034 Sunday clothes Clothes
1028 Headrag Clothes
1027 Panama hat Clothes
1026 Overalls Clothes
1018 Self-sufficiency Economy
1014 Spousal privilege Law
1011 Legal issue Law
1010 Farming Labor
1009 Witness Law
1007 White savior Race
996 Black property ownership Race
993 Draft War
991 Stereotype sweat Race
990 Penalty for Crime
983 Aboriginal Land-Use
980 Trains Progress
978 World War I War
974 Racialized Labor
972 Cotton farming Land-Use
969 Manslaughter Crime
968 Making whisky Crime
963 Return War
962 Police Law
961 Godhead Religion
960 Japanese Nationality
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
1049 Embedded text, cursive Intertextuality

This term was created In reference to the names "George Wilkins" and "Nathalie Beauchamp" written by hand on the wedding license in "Point of Law." JW

1030 Metaphor Figures of Speech
1016 Conjectural narration Narrative

This is the term I came up with to describe situations where the narrator (I was thinking mainly of anonymous narrators) uses phrases like "perhaps," "probably," "might," "maybe" to weaken the certainty or authority of what's being narrated. Where, that is, the narrator hedges his bets. JW

1004 Minstrelsy Genre Conventions
998 Humorous Tone
997 Roosevelt, Franklin D. Allusion, Historical
982 Repetition Narrative
979 Rural vernacular Diction
966 Character portrait Style

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