Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2358 Sophistication Character
2030 Solitude Recurring Tropes
2592 Solitary Recurring Tropes
3746 Sole owner and proprietor Recurring Tropes
4646 Social order|disorder Chaos/Order
676 Social life Community
3020 Social force Money
4567 Soap Objects
1590 Snake Animals
2978 Smelled like trees Recurring Tropes
5646 Slop jar 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

1455 Slipper 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

2863 Skull Objects
3582 Skin Body
4366 Simultaneity of time Time
1938 Similarity Appearance
4559 Silverware Objects
4120 Silver dollar Money
843 Silver Objects
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4611 Solomon Allusion, Biblical
4922 snicksnicksnick... Language
2618 Snake Allusion, Biblical
5468 Smollett, Tobias Allusion, Literary
5111 Smith, Thorne Allusion, Literary
4569 Smith, Al Allusion, Historical
4027 Slot machine Figures of Speech
4221 Slang, military Language
2595 Skull Figures of Speech
1903 Skeleton Figures of Speech
682 Simile-mask Figures of Speech
608 Simile Figures of Speech
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2585 Solidarity Race

Whenever characters feel a relationship or shared purpose with another character due to racial affinity. In the specific example, Lucius imagines that Ned and Minnie have some type of relationship because they are both African-American (117). JB

709 Soldier Identity, Personal
1176 Soil quality Agriculture
4781 Soda Food
2885 Socks Clothes
1358 Socio-economic Prejudice
2456 Social welfare as substitute Religion
275 Social value Slavery
2107 Social Shaming Group Mentality
3452 Social mobility Class
5600 Social decline Class
4978 Social Progress
2988 Sobriety Alcohol
1357 Snopesism Class
4743 Smoking habit Health and Illness
3780 Smoke stack Progress
4505 Smallpox Health and Illness
2999 Sleeping pill Health and Illness
297 Slaves vs poor whites Slavery
289 Slaves vs masters Slavery
248 Slavery (First level term)
306 Slave trading Slavery
3356 Skyscraper Progress
4145 Skirt Clothes
1780 Sin Religion
4968 Silver Shirts History
2435 Silk Clothes
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3089 Social respectability Marital
4969 Social organizations Social
405 Social (First level term)
664 Snobbery Social
922 Sister-sister Familial
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2422 Social protest Interaction, Social
4603 Social criticism Verbal
3468 Snoring Bodily
2098 Sneaking Movement
802 Smoking Bodily
2800 Smelling Bodily
498 Smelling Perceptual
4600 Sleepy Bodily
5336 Sleeplessness Bodily
663 Sleeping Bodily
2757 Sleeping Physical
1466 Slave hunting Hunting
3378 Slapping Violent
2146 Skepticism Mental
1408 Sitting Bodily
2783 Sitting Physical
2087 Singing Verbal
1402 Singing Bodily
1854 Silence Verbal
4425 Silence Communication
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2747 Snow Weather
2027 Smokehouse Place
4540 Smoke Olfactory
3575 Smelling water Olfactory
2930 Smelling trees Olfactory
2240 Smelling death Olfactory
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
2026 Slave Quarters Place
5608 Slave market Place
3544 Sky Natural
5675 Six o'clock p.m. Time of Day
5676 Six o'clock p.m. Time of Day
1987 Sitting room Domestic Space
5201 Siren Auditory
803 Silence Auditory

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