Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
2911 Bones Death
3457 Bookishness Character
2452 Books Objects
3039 Booksatchel Objects
2469 Bottle Objects
2905 Bow and arrow Objects
3563 Bowels Body
3138 Bowl Objects
2615 Brain / mind Body
4951 Brand name Naming
941 Brass Objects
5780 Brass knuckles Objects
4259 Bravado Character
3668 Bravery Character
3998 Breast Body
3177 Bricks Objects
4733 Briefcase Objects
3364 Broken glass Objects
4538 Broom Objects
1260 Bugs Animals
2467 Bumble-bee Animals
2265 Burial Death
5694 Burial society Death
3186 Burning a town Absence/Loss
5578 Buttocks Body
2909 Buzzards Animals
4417 Camera Objects
2198 Candelabra Objects
1268 Candle Objects
4562 Cannon (First level term)
4563 Cannon Objects
4674 Canteen Objects
1385 Capture as loss Absence/Loss
670 Car Objects
1350 Car accident Death
3402 Cards Objects
2724 Carnival Community
906 Case file Texts
4853 Cash Money
5161 Catechism Objects
2722 Cats Animals
593 Cattle Animals
3855 Cautious Character
745 Census Texts
3066 Chair Objects
2340 Chamber pot Objects
2034 Chandlier Objects
2433 Change over time Naming
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

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
1678 Civic records Texts
5635 Classical Greek Art
4720 Classical music Art
646 Clock Objects
3815 Coal oil Objects
1127 Coffee Objects
5682 Coffee pot Objects
1790 Coffin Death
4679 Coffin Objects
3964 Coin Money
4024 Coin Objects
3062 Collaborative Story-telling
3267 Collar box Objects
2200 Collecting money Money

Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP

2237 Collective memory Memory
3703 Columbus Day Community
2266 Comforter Character
4952 Commercial origins Naming
571 Communal mythology Story-telling
368 Community (First level term)
3721 Compared to living Death
3842 Compared to sleep Death
2068 Compass Objects
1243 Complexion Appearance
3522 Condition of heaviness Appearance
2744 Condom Objects
5301 Confederate Money
2204 Confederate monument Recurring Tropes
3598 Conformity Community
3734 Confusion Chaos/Order
2092 Conscience Values
2938 Conservatism Values

Here conservatism is meant as a value and is politically agnostic. It is roughly being used as prudence, common sense, and tradition all wrapped up in one. JB

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