Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
4306 Engagement ring Objects
4755 Entropy Chaos/Order
4335 Epitaph Death
4441 Epitaph Texts
5810 Escape / Departing through a window Recurring Tropes
1305 Estranged Home
2398 Eternal feminine Recurring Tropes
2700 Eternity Supernatural
536 Ethics Philosophical
2699 Eulogy Death
4758 European in U.S. Objects
3065 Evil Values
2402 Evolution Philosophical
3278 Excrement Body
988 Execution Death
372 Exile (First level term)
3350 Existentialism Philosophical
1789 Expenses Money
4918 Explaining Story-telling
2161 Eyeglasses Objects
3740 Eyelashes Body
584 Eyes Body
629 Face Body
3162 Failure to defend honor Futility
2623 Fairy-tale Recurring Tropes
2408 Faith Morals
2172 Faithfulness Values

Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP

1210 False name Naming
2857 Family history Past
4476 Family honor Values
5740 Family oral tradition Story-telling
4250 Family values Values

Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP

2466 Fan Objects
4205 Farming tools Objects
1927 Fatality Recurring Tropes
2532 Fated Determinism

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR

3279 Father said Recurring Tropes
3942 Fatness / obesity Appearance
4434 Feminine Appearance
530 Fence Objects
5253 Fiddle Objects
1252 Filthy lucre Money

When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW

3554 Fingers Body
1112 Fire Objects
875 Fire on the hearth Recurring Tropes
1986 Fireflies Animals
4510 Firewood Objects
2269 Fish Objects
2958 Fish Animals
3857 Fish trout Animals
2950 Fishing rod Objects
2651 Fixation Recurring Tropes

The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC

2208 Flag Objects
4423 Flashlight Objects
3333 Flat-iron Objects
3665 Fleas Animals
1261 Flesh Body
3750 Flower orchid Objects
2084 Flowers Objects
3292 Flowers Dogwood Objects
5160 Flowers larkspur Objects
3291 Flowers Milkweed Objects
3287 Flowers Roses Objects
3246 Folk customs Supernatural
3133 Folklore Supernatural
727 Fool|Foolishness Character
3301 Foot / Feet Body
2028 Footprint Objects
2020 Forbearance Character
3996 Forehead Body
2112 Forgetting Memory
914 Fox Animals
2464 Fox-horn Objects
1006 Freedom Philosophical
3093 Freedom from it Past
5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
3625 French noble names Naming
1080 Frogs Animals
1932 Frozen / Static Time
931 Funeral Death
3717 Funeral pyre / cremation Death
645 Furniture Objects
374 Futility (First level term)
844 Future Death
2051 Future Time
2403 Gambler Character
2581 Gamecock Animals
5784 Garland Objects
2537 Gasoline Objects

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB

5595 Gathering Community
1032 Gaze Recurring Tropes
3261 Geese Animals
5114 Gendered Determinism
5382 Generous Character
4878 Genetic Determinism
5613 Gestures Story-telling
4257 Getting away Home
1883 Ghost Supernatural
3149 Gift of money Money
4537 Giraffe Animals

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