Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
1320 Chivalry Morals
3995 Chins Body
3536 Childlike Character
2684 Child's name Naming
4997 Child Death
1739 Chickens/roosters Animals
4119 Check Money
4675 Chastity belt Objects
2511 Chasing a person Recurring Tropes

For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR

4656 Charity Values
366 Character (First level term)
385 Chaos/Order (First level term)
1369 Chaos Chaos/Order
2433 Change over time Naming
2034 Chandlier Objects
2340 Chamber pot Objects
3066 Chair Objects
745 Census Texts
3855 Cautious Character
593 Cattle Animals
2722 Cats Animals
5161 Catechism Objects
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
662 Chivalry Gender
2775 Chistian Scientist Religion
1288 Childhood Age
1291 Child abuse Violence
826 Chickasaw Race
3688 Chauvinism / Misogyny Gender
3829 Chastity / purity Gender
3297 Chapel Service (morning prayers) Education
2294 Changing relationships Gender

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB

2047 Changing customs Modernity
4271 Changing clothes Clothes
3395 Change of environment Health and Illness

Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW

4736 Chancellor Law
2920 Champagne Alcohol
2137 Challenge Religion

When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP

5283 Chain gang Law
4805 Cemetery decorations Ritual
2544 Cattle rustling Crime
2808 Catholicism Religion
4275 Casualties of war War
2571 Castration Violence
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
5414 China Allusion, Geographical
3788 Chimera / Chimaera Allusion, Mythical
5228 Child's perspective Narrative
2955 Chickhahominy River Allusion, Geographical
4811 Chickamauga Allusion, Historical
2167 Chicago Allusion, Geographical
3903 Chess imagery stalemate Figures of Speech
4443 Chess Figures of Speech
2882 Chattanooga, Tennessee Allusion, Geographical
5117 Chateau-Thierry Allusion, Historical
3241 Charleston, South Carolina Allusion, Geographical
3579 Charles River Allusion, Geographical
1153 Character portrait Description
966 Character portrait Style
5451 Chaplin, Charlie Allusion, Historical
1891 Chains Figures of Speech
4303 Cervantes, Miguel de Allusion, Literary
3423 Cerberus Allusion, Mythical
5405 Central Park Allusion, Geographical
1496 Centaur Allusion, Mythical
5085 Cataline / Catiline Allusion, Literary
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
2192 Children playing Play
1237 Childbirth Bodily
4336 Child-rearing Domestic
4472 Child support Economic
5290 Child labor Agricultural
1209 Child care Domestic
1851 Chewing Bodily
2730 Chess Play
2729 Checkers Play
3757 Cheating Moral
2436 Chatter Verbal
1498 Chasing Movement
3931 Chase Physical
1754 Charity Interaction, Social

Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB

2914 Charge/accuse Legal
3450 Chanting Verbal
1340 Channeling Mental

An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR

3002 Changing one's mind Mental
4213 Censorship Communication
2923 Celebration Interaction, Social
3824 Castration Violent
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
3505 Childlessness Familial
1298 Childhood friends Friendship
1519 Child-adult Interracial
1397 child protection Civic
678 Child as authority Hierarchical
2725 Charity Civic
4086 Certificate Marital
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Termsort ascending Parent Description
4031 Chicken coop / hen house Domestic Space
3623 Chapel Public
1669 Chaos Atmospheric
3890 Cemetery Place
2919 Cellar Domestic Space
4100 Cedar trees Natural
3593 Cavern / Grotto Natural
3445 Cave Natural

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