Keywords
| Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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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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| 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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| 3484 | Delilah | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1890 | Demon | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 2458 | Demosthenes | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5624 | Derogatory socio-economic term | Diction | ||
| 1099 | Description | (First level term) | ||
| 2374 | Desert island | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4749 | Detective fiction | Genre Conventions | ||
| 3281 | Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 5467 | Dickens, Charles | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3782 | Dickinson, Emily | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3230 | Dickson | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 407 | Diction | (First level term) | ||
| 1698 | Dillinger, John | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5245 | Dionysus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 1902 | Disease | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4868 | Disruption | Narrative | ||
| 1930 | Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 1936 | Djinn | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5562 | Doddsville, Mississippi | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2387 | Don Juan | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4302 | Don Quixote | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4527 | Donne, John | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5039 | Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 1308 | Dots | Typography/Orthography |
This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR |
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| 849 | Double entendre | Diction | ||
| 2189 | Dragon's teeth | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3511 | Drained marsh | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3759 | Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4520 | Drawing of an eye | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 5010 | Drawing of delta | Typography/Orthography | ||
| 3460 | Dreiser, Theodore | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 5063 | Driving to Goodwin's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 4393 | Duke John of Lorraine | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 1878 | Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3295 | Dumas, Alexandre | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 3236 | Dunquerque | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 5429 | East Lynne | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 4633 | eeeeeeeeeeeeeee | Language | ||
| 4518 | Egypt | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4492 | Einstein, Albert | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2032 | Electricity | Figures of Speech | ||
| 742 | Elegiac | Tone | ||
| 3158 | Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1425 | Ellipsis | Language | ||
| 1049 | Embedded text, cursive | Intertextuality |
This term was created In reference to the names "George Wilkins" and "Nathalie Beauchamp" written by hand on the wedding license in "Point of Law." JW |
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| 1180 | Embedded text, lettering | Intertextuality | ||
| 3912 | Embroidery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 3218 | Emperor Maximilian | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2707 | England | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 1637 | Epiphany | Narrative | ||
| 3220 | Erinys | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5047 | Etching name on window | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 3927 | Ethnic slur | Diction | ||
| 4088 | Euboeleus / Eubuleus | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 5071 | Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5442 | Europe | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 2617 | Eve | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 4322 | Exodus | Allusion, Biblical | ||
| 760 | Exoticism | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4963 | Explanatory passage | Interpretation | ||
| 1661 | Explorers | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 2287 | Expression | Figures of Speech |
Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB |
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| 915 | Eyes | Figures of Speech | ||
| 1204 | Eyes | Description | ||
| 1545 | Face | Figures of Speech | ||
| 2611 | Fantasy | Narrative |
Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC |
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| 1370 | Farce | Tone | ||
| 1278 | Fate | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 2802 | Faulkner text | Intertextuality | ||
| 2300 | Faustus | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 3789 | Female monsters | Allusion, Mythical | ||
| 3692 | Fertilise / Fertility imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5107 | Fielding, Henry | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 5314 | Fields, Lew | Allusion, Historical |
Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB |
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| 408 | Figures of Speech | (First level term) | ||
| 3872 | Fire | Figures of Speech | ||
| 4054 | Fire | Symbolism | ||
| 5042 | First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 490 | First-person | Narrative | ||
| 494 | First-person passim | Narrative | ||
| 3131 | First-person passim throughout section | Narrative | ||
| 504 | First-person plural passim | Narrative | ||
| 487 | First-person vernacular | Narrative | ||
| 488 | First-person vernacular passim | Narrative | ||
| 2621 | Fish | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5119 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1533 | Flag | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5060 | Flem and Eula marry | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5215 | Flem reaches Jefferson | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 3299 | Flood imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 5366 | Florida | Allusion, Geographical | ||
| 4373 | Food and drink imagery | Figures of Speech | ||
| 2290 | Ford, Henry | Allusion, Historical | ||
| 4042 | Foreign accent / dialect | Language | ||
| 3827 | Foreign language | Language | ||
| 3038 | Foreshadowing | Narrative | ||
| 5108 | Forever Amber | Allusion, Literary | ||
| 1486 | Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Allusion, Historical |