Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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827 | Devastation | Atmospheric | ||
1437 | Dereliction | Atmospheric | ||
951 | Delta rivers | Natural | ||
699 | Delta | Natural | ||
5306 | Decomposition | Olfactory | ||
774 | December | Time of Year | ||
4613 | Decayed plantation | Place | ||
4665 | Decayed house | Place | ||
607 | Decay | Olfactory | ||
1918 | Deathbed | Domestic Space |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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371 | Determinism | (First level term) | ||
1994 | Determination | Values | ||
4713 | Destroyed | Home | ||
2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
4349 | Design | Recurring Tropes | ||
903 | Desertion-family | Arrivals/Departures | ||
764 | Deracination | Absence/Loss | ||
3845 | Depth / deepness | Appearance | ||
1242 | Departure | Arrivals/Departures | ||
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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4462 | Denial | Death | ||
4573 | Denial | Psychological | ||
2593 | Demijohn | Objects | ||
730 | Deer | Animals | ||
1998 | Deed | Texts | ||
2400 | Decorum | Values | ||
3411 | Decoration Day | Community | ||
2257 | Deathbed | Death | ||
2980 | Death sentence | Death | ||
4799 | Death certificate | Texts | ||
3332 | Death by water / Drowning | Death | ||
370 | Death | (First level term) | ||
5226 | Deadpan | Story-telling |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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4749 | Detective fiction | Genre Conventions | ||
2374 | Desert island | Figures of Speech | ||
1099 | Description | (First level term) | ||
5624 | Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction | ||
2458 | Demosthenes | Allusion, Historical | ||
1890 | Demon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
3484 | Delilah | Allusion, Biblical | ||
1751 | Delayed revelation | Narrative |
Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later. |
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3421 | Delayed decoding | Description |
Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR |
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4446 | Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech |
Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary. |
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5661 | DeFrance, Abraham | Allusion, Historical | ||
1688 | Debunking story | Interpretation | ||
3516 | Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
5223 | Dead-eye Dick | Allusion, Historical |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2356 | Detachment | Emotional | ||
1835 | Destructive behavior | Violent |
Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP |
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3022 | Destruction of enemy property | Military | ||
506 | Despair | Emotional | ||
4501 | Denial | Emotional | ||
1492 | Denial | Verbal | ||
5430 | Demotion | Military | ||
4124 | Dementia | Emotional | ||
4060 | Demanding | Verbal | ||
1536 | Delivery | Economic | ||
2477 | Delivering | Physical | ||
1169 | Deliberating | Legal | ||
1430 | Dehumanization | Violent |
Treating a person through one's actions as if they are an object rather than a fellow human being. BR |
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5622 | Defining | Verbal | ||
1076 | Defiance | Emotional | ||
1133 | Defending | Legal |
Serving as a defense attorney. JW |
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4625 | Defecation | Bodily | ||
531 | Defeat | Moral | ||
1654 | Defeat | Emotional | ||
720 | Deer hunting | Hunting |
Event refers specifically to DEER hunting. JP |
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4591 | Deduction | Mental | ||
1593 | Decomposition | Bodily | ||
5129 | Deciding | Mental | ||
713 | Deception | Moral | ||
1467 | Decay | Non-human | ||
5087 | Debating | Verbal |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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2702 | Destruction | War | ||
1565 | Desire | Sexuality | ||
4763 | Desertion | War | ||
1478 | Deprivation | War |
Individuals or groups who have been deprived of resources and comfort. JB |
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3196 | Depression-era programs | Government | ||
894 | Deployment | War | ||
4992 | Dependable | Food | ||
5183 | Denim | Clothes | ||
2134 | Demotion | War | ||
781 | Demographics | Government | ||
320 | Demographics | Slavery |
For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR |
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2577 | Democrat | Politics |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
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2900 | Democracy | Politics | ||
4971 | Demagoguery | Politics | ||
4267 | Delirium | Health and Illness | ||
3009 | Deist | Religion | ||
2698 | Dehumanization | Class | ||
718 | Defeat | War | ||
2007 | Declasse | Class |
Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers |
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3916 | Death from drinking | Alcohol | ||
535 | Death | War | ||
714 | Deafness | Health and Illness |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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1233 | Desertion | Marital | ||
3811 | Desertion | Sexual | ||
4359 | Descendants | Familial | ||
3118 | Death of spouse | Marital | ||
908 | Death | Romantic |