Keywords

Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2580 Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
2786 Ten Commandments Allusion, Biblical
668 Temporal projection Narrative

When the narrative gets ahead of itself, for example in "Race at Morning" Event 305.1 begins "Then we seen him for the first time," but that does not actually happen until two Events later, 305.3, "and then suddenly . . . the buck hisself" (305). It doesn't matter whether the narrative is looking forward a dozen sentences or a hundred pages, whenever it explicitly anticipates something that it won't actually depict until a later Event, it's "Temporal projection." SR

4445 Temporal discontinuity Narrative

When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR

5066 Temple testifying Recurring Episodes
5062 Temple leaves train Recurring Episodes
5065 Temple at Reba's Recurring Episodes
5064 Temple at Goodwin's Recurring Episodes
4189 Technological imagery Figures of Speech
1875 Taylor, Jeremy Allusion, Literary
4931 Tarleton, Banastre Allusion, Historical
2566 Tamerlane Allusion, Historical
5083 Tallahatchie River Allusion, Geographical
501 Tall tale Genre Conventions
2367 Talisman Figures of Speech
4122 Taft, President Allusion, Historical
1973 Tableau Description
4135 Syria Allusion, Geographical
3151 Synesthesia Figures of Speech

For when description in a text merges sensory perceptions. Added for when Benjy in S&F describes "hearing it getting night ... hearing it getting dark." -JBP

1101 Symbolism (First level term)
2784 Sword Allusion, Biblical
4090 Swine Figures of Speech
3741 Swallows Figures of Speech
5052 Sutpen's arrival Recurring Episodes
5057 Sutpen rejects KKK Recurring Episodes
4107 Suspense Narrative
5270 Suspended|Resumed Narrative
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4839 Tending to animal Animals
2494 Tenderness Character
2373 Telepathy Supernatural
3000 Telegram Texts
1926 Teetotaler Character
2003 Teeth Body
3905 Tedious / tedium Philosophical
3477 Tea Objects
2076 Tarpaulin Objects
5643 Tankard Objects
4748 Taboos Community
4046 Table Objects
4255 Symbolism Body

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR

1925 Sword Objects
2975 Swing Objects
4503 Swallows Animals
2088 Swagger Character
4886 Suspicious Death
1647 Surrey Objects
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
524 Tenantry|Share-cropping Economy

There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR

1664 Television Technology
3034 Television Entertainment
801 Telephone Mass Media
2279 Telephone Technology
5384 Telegraph Technology
4496 Telegraph Progress
2774 Teetotaling Alcohol

Teetotaling as a cultural issue or as a personal moral or habitual choice. This is different than "teetotaler" under character, which is the defining character trait of that person. The example here is Minnie in The Reivers who works in a brothel, but is a teetotaler because she is a "damn christian scientist or republican or something" (153). In this sense, it is not her defining character trait. JB

446 Technology (First level term)
1665 Technological Progress
4724 Taxes, local Government
1216 Taxes Politics
3458 Taste Gender
4929 Tartan Clothes
3187 Surrender at Appomattox History
763 Surrender War
3046 Surgical castration Health and Illness
3045 Surgery Health and Illness
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5148 Ten o'clock p.m. Time of Day
3310 Ten o'clock a.m. Time of Day
4497 Telegraph office Public
3472 Tea Time of Day
1270 Tavern Place
2817 Sweat Olfactory
1595 Swamp Natural
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2325 Telling Verbal
1415 Telephone Communication
2350 Telegraph Communication
2111 Teasing Verbal
1578 Teaching Work
1610 Teaching Hunting
1644 Teaching Domestic
3549 Teacher-student Interaction, Private
3550 Teacher-class of students Interaction, Social
4654 Taxi Movement
637 Taunt Verbal
2921 Tasting Perceptual
753 Talking Verbal
3049 Taking without paying Economic

Somewhat distinct from stealing; this is for when someone confiscates, keeps, or otherwise takes something for which payment might ordinarily be expected. (The incident of the golfer keeping the golf ball that Luster tries to sell to him, for example.) -JBP

2479 Taking Physical
887 Tailor Work
3392 Sympathy Emotional
1749 Swimming Movement
3993 Sweetness Perceptual
1431 Sweating Bodily
2426 Swearing Communication
2734 Swearing Verbal
3967 Swallowing Bodily
2381 Suspicion Emotional
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
2550 Surrey Movement
1489 Surprise Emotional
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
741 Teacher-student Hierarchical
1562 Surrogate Familial

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