Keywords
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2047 | Changing customs | Modernity | ||
| 2294 | Changing relationships | Gender |
Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB |
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| 3297 | Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Education | ||
| 3829 | Chastity / purity | Gender | ||
| 3688 | Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender | ||
| 826 | Chickasaw | Race | ||
| 1291 | Child abuse | Violence | ||
| 1288 | Childhood | Age | ||
| 2775 | Chistian Scientist | Religion | ||
| 662 | Chivalry | Gender | ||
| 5693 | Christening | Religion | ||
| 4515 | Christianity | Religion | ||
| 3529 | Christmas gift game | Ritual | ||
| 3542 | Christmas holiday traditions | Ritual | ||
| 3298 | Church service | Religion | ||
| 3662 | Circus | Entertainment |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3002 | Changing one's mind | Mental | ||
| 1340 | Channeling | Mental |
An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR |
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| 3450 | Chanting | Verbal | ||
| 2914 | Charge/accuse | Legal | ||
| 1754 | Charity | Interaction, Social |
Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB |
|
| 3931 | Chase | Physical | ||
| 1498 | Chasing | Movement | ||
| 2436 | Chatter | Verbal | ||
| 3757 | Cheating | Moral | ||
| 2729 | Checkers | Play | ||
| 2730 | Chess | Play | ||
| 1851 | Chewing | Bodily | ||
| 1209 | Child care | Domestic | ||
| 5290 | Child labor | Agricultural | ||
| 4472 | Child support | Economic | ||
| 4336 | Child-rearing | Domestic | ||
| 1237 | Childbirth | Bodily | ||
| 2192 | Children playing | Play | ||
| 1440 | Choking | Bodily | ||
| 1212 | Chopping | Agricultural | ||
| 1059 | Chopping wood | Physical | ||
| 902 | Chopping wood | Work | ||
| 2713 | Church | Interaction, Social | ||
| 4314 | Churning butter | Work |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1369 | Chaos | Chaos/Order | ||
| 385 | Chaos/Order | (First level term) | ||
| 366 | Character | (First level term) | ||
| 4656 | Charity | Values | ||
| 2511 | Chasing a person | Recurring Tropes |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
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| 4675 | Chastity belt | Objects | ||
| 4119 | Check | Money | ||
| 1739 | Chickens/roosters | Animals | ||
| 4997 | Child | Death | ||
| 2684 | Child's name | Naming | ||
| 3536 | Childlike | Character | ||
| 3995 | Chins | Body | ||
| 1320 | Chivalry | Morals | ||
| 3272 | Christian art or iconography | Art | ||
| 4709 | Christmas card | Texts | ||
| 1221 | Cicadas | Animals | ||
| 1042 | Cigar | Objects | ||
| 3800 | Cigarette | Objects | ||
| 5406 | Cigarette lighter | Objects | ||
| 4051 | Citizenship papers | Texts |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1669 | Chaos | Atmospheric | ||
| 3623 | Chapel | Public | ||
| 4031 | Chicken coop / hen house | Domestic Space | ||
| 1197 | Christmas | Time of Year | ||
| 2344 | Christmas Eve | Time of Year | ||
| 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 |
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| 1942 | Church | Public | ||
| 2732 | Church | Place | ||
| 3869 | Church steeple | Public | ||
| 2487 | Cigar | Olfactory | ||
| 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 |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5451 | Chaplin, Charlie | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1153 | Character portrait | Description | ||
| 966 | Character portrait | Style | ||
| 3579 | Charles River | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 3241 | Charleston, South Carolina | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5117 | Chateau-Thierry | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2882 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4443 | Chess | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3903 | Chess imagery stalemate | Figures of Speech | ||
| 2167 | Chicago | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4811 | Chickamauga | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2955 | Chickhahominy River | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5228 | Child's perspective | Narrative | ||
| 3788 | Chimera / Chimaera | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5414 | China | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1336 | Christ | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 2506 | Christian | Symbolism | ||
| 2096 | Chronological enjambment | Narrative |
When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other. |
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| 4277 | Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5477 | Churchill, Winston | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4522 | Cicero | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3176 | Cincinnatus | Allusion, Historical |
| Term ID |
Term |
Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2725 | Charity | Civic | ||
| 678 | Child as authority | Hierarchical | ||
| 1397 | child protection | Civic | ||
| 1519 | Child-adult | Interracial | ||
| 1298 | Childhood friends | Friendship | ||
| 3505 | Childlessness | Familial | ||
| 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. |