Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
2515 Departing Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures

For characters who leave Yoknapatawpha once and for all in a text - like Bayard Sartoris at the end of Flags in the Dust or Sarty Snopes in "Barn Burning." SR

2656 Leaving Arrivals/Departures
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

4198 Return to Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures
4693 Return from war Arrivals/Departures
5291 Showing up Arrivals/Departures
729 Sculpture Art
761 Power of Art
1544 Painting Art
1897 Poetry Art
1934 Music Art
2377 Objet d'art Art
3272 Christian art or iconography Art
3444 Artistic creation Art
3737 Photograph Art
3798 African American music Art
4437 Jazz music Art
4670 Lithographs Art
4720 Classical music Art
5377 And civilization Art
5635 Classical Greek Art
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
509 Dread Atmospheric
581 Stillness Atmospheric
603 Moonlit Atmospheric
728 Light Atmospheric
827 Devastation Atmospheric
870 Dark Atmospheric
883 Wind Atmospheric
917 Night Atmospheric
1065 Heat Atmospheric
1106 Cold Atmospheric
1426 Dust Atmospheric
1437 Dereliction Atmospheric
1589 Doom Atmospheric
1669 Chaos Atmospheric
1908 Gloom Atmospheric
1943 Thunder Atmospheric
2018 Crowded Atmospheric
2099 Sunlight Atmospheric
2114 Firelight Atmospheric
2185 Claustrophobic Atmospheric
2234 Spectral Atmospheric
2689 Candlelight Atmospheric
2690 Creepy Atmospheric
2866 Sterile Atmospheric
3438 Arcadian Atmospheric
3595 Twinkling Atmospheric
3603 Ice floes / iceberg Atmospheric
3689 Streetlamp Atmospheric
3889 Grayness Atmospheric
3947 Harvest moon Atmospheric
3949 Full moon Atmospheric
3984 Wetness Atmospheric
4007 Oppressive Atmospheric
4018 Starlight Atmospheric
4183 Unfamiliar place Atmospheric

When the action of a story takes someone into a place they've never been before, for example the "strange country" that the chase of the deer reaches in "Race at Morning" (301).

4649 Sexual Atmospheric
4664 Racialized Atmospheric
4681 Hallucinated Atmospheric
4825 Dangerous Atmospheric
4893 Familiar Atmospheric
4901 Spiritual Atmospheric
4909 Meteor shower Atmospheric
5099 Peaceful Atmospheric
5104 Haunted Atmospheric
5227 Squalor Atmospheric
5264 Fire Atmospheric
5286 Bleak Atmospheric
5339 Burgeoning Atmospheric
5594 Torch-light Atmospheric
803 Silence Auditory
1325 Heartbeat Auditory
1356 Confused din Auditory
1412 Haunting Auditory
1428 Breathing Auditory
1473 Gallop Auditory
1480 Howling Auditory
1714 Postal horn Auditory
1800 Voices Auditory
1960 Sawing Auditory
1961 Carpentry Auditory
1988 Bells Auditory
2129 Bugle Auditory
2488 Birdsong Auditory
2498 Industry Auditory
2549 Nature Auditory

The sounds of nature, generally on a quiet night. JB

2685 Bees Auditory
2771 Murmur Auditory
2927 Insect sounds Auditory
2929 Tree / leaves Auditory
2957 Barking Auditory
2983 Unseen voice Auditory
3070 Clock ticking Auditory
3071 Rain on roof Auditory
3259 Frogs Auditory
3262 Water Auditory
3320 Clock chiming Auditory
3381 Owls Auditory
3574 Streetcar sound Auditory
3675 Quietness Auditory

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