Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
3437 Populace Community
3444 Artistic creation Art
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP

3455 Anxiety about|Resistance to change Past
3456 Duty Character
3457 Bookishness Character
3463 Routine Time
3476 Ugliness Appearance
3477 Tea Objects
3480 Baldness Appearance
3502 Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass Objects
3503 Nickel coin Money
3506 Lamp or lantern Objects
3509 Metaphysics Philosophical
3513 Duration of time Time
3515 Measuring time Time
3518 Preparing for death Death
3520 Human experience Philosophical
3522 Condition of heaviness Appearance
3530 Quarter coin Money
3536 Childlike Character
3537 Reliability Character
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parent Description
3438 Arcadian Atmospheric
3441 Dollhouse Domestic Space
3445 Cave Natural
3472 Tea Time of Day
3493 Restaurant Public
3496 Store window Public
3500 Clock tower Public
3507 Sulfur Olfactory
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Term Parent Description
3439 Barbados Allusion, Geographical
3442 A Midsummer Night's Dream Allusion, Literary
3446 Milton, John Allusion, Historical
3451 Abraham Allusion, Biblical
3459 Sabatini, Rafael Allusion, Historical
3460 Dreiser, Theodore Allusion, Historical
3461 Arlen, Michael Allusion, Historical
3462 Romance Allusion, Literary
3470 Ahenobarbus Allusion, Historical
3471 Archaic Language
3473 Atalanta Allusion, Mythical
3474 Texas Allusion, Geographical
3478 South America Allusion, Geographical
3479 Booth, William Allusion, Historical
3484 Delilah Allusion, Biblical
3485 Antimetabole Language
3494 Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts Allusion, Geographical
3510 List Style
3511 Drained marsh Figures of Speech
3512 Gull Figures of Speech
3514 Philosopher Bergson, Henri Allusion, Historical
3516 Death / Dead imagery Figures of Speech
3519 Weight / Burden Description
3521 African-American folk sayings Narrative
3534 Rabbit Figures of Speech
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parent Description
3440 Landscaping Work
3443 Glassblowing Work
3447 Longing Emotional
3449 Esoteric language Verbal
3450 Chanting Verbal
3468 Snoring Bodily
3469 Tennis Play
3486 Sowing Work
3487 Car accident Violent
3489 Marching Movement
3497 Looking away Perceptual
3498 Boot-black / Shoe shine Work
3499 Street vendor / service worker Interaction, Private
3501 Jeweler Work
3504 Store owner-customer Interaction, Private
3517 Learning Mental
3532 Passing from sight Perceptual
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
3452 Social mobility Class
3453 Weak heart Health and Illness
3458 Taste Gender
3464 Sewanee Education
3465 Oxford Education
3466 Rhodes Scholar Education
3475 Experience Sexuality
3481 Female stereotype Gender
3482 Recital Entertainment
3488 Broken bones Health and Illness
3490 Civil War consequences War
3491 Civil War consequences History
3492 Welfare Government
3495 Awareness of / Being in history History
3508 Emptying oneself Identity, Personal
3523 Hat, derby Clothes
3524 Colored people as acceptable terminology Race
3525 Racial consciousness Race
3526 Racial identity Race
3527 Race as a form of behavior Race
3528 Uncle as term for black man Race
3529 Christmas gift game Ritual
3531 Blanket Clothes
3533 Steam locomotive Technology
3535 Infantilizing of blacks Prejudice
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parent Description
3454 Flirtation Romantic
3467 Master-servant Hierarchical
3505 Childlessness Familial

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