Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4345 | Constitutive moment | Character | ||
| 5338 | Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
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| 4214 | Construction tools | Objects | ||
| 2013 | Continuity | Time |
Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB |
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| 601 | Control | Chaos/Order | ||
| 5425 | Conventional | Character | ||
| 4362 | Conviction | Character | ||
| 4815 | Cook book | Texts | ||
| 4856 | Cooperation | Community | ||
| 4702 | Corncob | Objects | ||
| 1525 | Corpse | Objects | ||
| 1788 | Corpse | Death | ||
| 2090 | Cosmetics | Appearance | ||
| 684 | Courage | Values | ||
| 3671 | Courteous | Character | ||
| 2741 | Coward | Character | ||
| 2473 | Cows | Animals | ||
| 2509 | Creating order | Chaos/Order | ||
| 1894 | Creation | Chaos/Order | ||
| 3713 | Crib / Cradle | Objects | ||
| 2486 | Crickets | Animals | ||
| 1596 | Crowd | Community | ||
| 2904 | Cruel | Character | ||
| 1546 | Crystal | Objects | ||
| 5683 | Cup | Objects | ||
| 5534 | Curmudgeonly | Character | ||
| 3165 | Curtains | Objects | ||
| 3079 | Cushion | Objects | ||
| 4281 | Cyclical | Time | ||
| 2196 | Damask | Objects | ||
| 4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2343 | Dead time | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5226 | Deadpan | Story-telling | ||
| 370 | Death | (First level term) | ||
| 3332 | Death by water / Drowning | Death | ||
| 4799 | Death certificate | Texts | ||
| 2980 | Death sentence | Death | ||
| 2257 | Deathbed | Death | ||
| 5765 | Decent | Character | ||
| 3411 | Decoration Day | Community | ||
| 2400 | Decorum | Values | ||
| 1998 | Deed | Texts | ||
| 730 | Deer | Animals | ||
| 2593 | Demijohn | Objects | ||
| 4462 | Denial | Death | ||
| 4573 | Denial | Psychological | ||
| 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 |
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| 1242 | Departure | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 3845 | Depth / deepness | Appearance | ||
| 764 | Deracination | Absence/Loss | ||
| 903 | Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures | ||
| 4349 | Design | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4713 | Destroyed | Home | ||
| 1994 | Determination | Values | ||
| 371 | Determinism | (First level term) | ||
| 2384 | Devotion | Values | ||
| 4683 | Dice | Objects | ||
| 1531 | Dignity | Values | ||
| 3913 | Diminishment / fading | Appearance | ||
| 3605 | Dirty | Appearance | ||
| 1725 | Disappearance | Absence/Loss | ||
| 3174 | Discovering it | Past | ||
| 5266 | Disdaining money | Money | ||
| 4408 | Disease | Death | ||
| 3426 | Disembodiment | Psychological | ||
| 5187 | Dishes | Objects | ||
| 3809 | Dishonor | Morals | ||
| 503 | Disorder | Chaos/Order | ||
| 3012 | Dispossession | Exile | ||
| 4188 | Distance from home | Home |
For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR |
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| 1779 | Divine plan | Chaos/Order | ||
| 4008 | Dog-fox | Animals | ||
| 3067 | Dogfennel | Objects | ||
| 618 | Dogs | Animals | ||
| 2151 | Dolls | Objects | ||
| 4993 | Domestic | Chaos/Order | ||
| 2337 | Doom | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 609 | Door | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1063 | Dowry | Money | ||
| 4860 | Drawing | Texts | ||
| 2023 | Dream | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2671 | Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3341 | Dresser | Objects | ||
| 3143 | Drinking glass | Objects | ||
| 4872 | Driven away | Exile | ||
| 1468 | Drum | Objects | ||
| 4775 | Ducks | Animals | ||
| 1517 | Dulcimer | Objects | ||
| 2526 | Durability | Values | ||
| 3513 | Duration of time | Time | ||
| 3456 | Duty | Character | ||
| 1069 | Dwelling | Home | ||
| 3841 | Dying wish | Death | ||
| 4990 | Earned | Money | ||
| 2625 | Echo | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1841 | Elephants | Animals | ||
| 3911 | Elm tree | Objects | ||
| 4511 | Emptiness | Chaos/Order | ||
| 1177 | Endurance | Recurring Tropes |