Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 617 | Absence as disguise | Absence/Loss |
This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR |
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| 1331 | Absence as loss | Absence/Loss | ||
| 5275 | Absence as presence | Absence/Loss | ||
| 4512 | Absence of sound | Absence/Loss | ||
| 358 | Absence/Loss | (First level term) | ||
| 2604 | Absurdity | Meaning | ||
| 5771 | Acceptance | Community | ||
| 1689 | Accident | Chaos/Order | ||
| 4419 | Accounts | Texts | ||
| 517 | Advent | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 5401 | Aesthetic experience | Meaning | ||
| 3798 | African American music | Art | ||
| 626 | African-American | Community | ||
| 2232 | Afterlife | Death | ||
| 3214 | Air gun | Objects | ||
| 3252 | Airplane | Objects | ||
| 1459 | Alarm | Arrivals/Departures |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
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| 1783 | Alias | Naming | ||
| 2331 | Alienation | Community | ||
| 4447 | Alienation from nature | Exile | ||
| 3010 | Alligators | Animals | ||
| 3448 | Aloneness | Absence/Loss |
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP |
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| 4747 | Ambiguous circumstances | Death | ||
| 538 | Ambitious | Character | ||
| 5519 | Amoral | Character | ||
| 2236 | Anchovies | Objects | ||
| 4741 | And an animal | Determinism | ||
| 3060 | And caste | Naming | ||
| 4950 | And change | Time | ||
| 5377 | And civilization | Art | ||
| 4428 | And inheritance | Death | ||
| 3193 | And monuments | Past | ||
| 2082 | Animal bear | Death | ||
| 2073 | Animal Dog | Death | ||
| 2910 | Animal horse | Death | ||
| 4535 | Animal mule | Death | ||
| 364 | Animals | (First level term) | ||
| 4847 | Anthropological | Texts | ||
| 2749 | Anticipation | Time | ||
| 3099 | Anticipation of death | Death | ||
| 1615 | Antlers | Objects | ||
| 2379 | Ants | Animals | ||
| 3455 | Anxiety about|Resistance to change | Past | ||
| 4216 | Apotheosis | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4209 | Apparition | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1090 | Appearance | (First level term) | ||
| 631 | Appearance-plain | Body | ||
| 3738 | Apple tree | Objects | ||
| 3145 | Arm | Body | ||
| 1667 | Arrival | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 2503 | Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 362 | Arrivals/Departures | (First level term) | ||
| 363 | Art | (First level term) | ||
| 2022 | Artist | Character | ||
| 3444 | Artistic creation | Art | ||
| 5231 | As character | Appearance | ||
| 3059 | As explanatory | Past | ||
| 3103 | As motive | Money | ||
| 4513 | As symbol | Money |
I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW |
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| 5529 | As tribute | Naming | ||
| 5769 | Ascetic | Character | ||
| 2865 | Assertive | Character | ||
| 4831 | Attacked | Home | ||
| 2460 | Attempt to find substitute | Absence/Loss | ||
| 1520 | Audience response | Story-telling | ||
| 3312 | Awareness of time | Time | ||
| 1247 | Ax | Objects | ||
| 3112 | Baby bottle | Objects | ||
| 1571 | Bad conduct | Values | ||
| 4286 | Balance | Chaos/Order | ||
| 3480 | Baldness | Appearance | ||
| 1825 | Ballot Box | Objects | ||
| 2359 | Barbarism | Character | ||
| 739 | Bargainer | Character | ||
| 5803 | Barrel | Objects | ||
| 1823 | Basket | Objects | ||
| 3263 | Bats | Animals | ||
| 734 | Bear | Animals | ||
| 2322 | Beautiful/handsome | Appearance | ||
| 3994 | Beavers | Animals | ||
| 3276 | Bed | Objects | ||
| 3166 | Being in time | Time |
Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP |
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| 3294 | Being late / tardiness | Time | ||
| 3293 | Being on time / punctuality | Time | ||
| 3167 | Being outside of time | Time | ||
| 1982 | Belatedness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4374 | Belonging | Home | ||
| 3850 | Beyond | Recurring Tropes |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
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| 1388 | Bible | Objects | ||
| 4818 | Bible | Texts | ||
| 3674 | Bill | Money | ||
| 1393 | Birds | Animals | ||
| 3011 | Bison | Animals | ||
| 3880 | Blackguard | Character | ||
| 3416 | Blame | Absence/Loss | ||
| 680 | Blood | Body | ||
| 4509 | Bluejays | Animals | ||
| 2070 | Boat | Objects | ||
| 365 | Body | (First level term) | ||
| 5491 | Bomb-sight | Objects |