Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
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| 1982 | Belatedness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3850 | Beyond | Recurring Tropes |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
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| 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 |
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| 2204 | Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5338 | Constitutive moment | Recurring Tropes |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
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| 4236 | Dark house | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2343 | Dead time | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4349 | Design | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2183 | Destiny | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2337 | Doom | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 609 | Door | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2023 | Dream | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2671 | Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2625 | Echo | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1177 | Endurance | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2398 | Eternal feminine | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2623 | Fairy-tale | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1927 | Fatality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3279 | Father said | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 875 | Fire on the hearth | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 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 |
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| 1032 | Gaze | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4399 | Glory | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1256 | Going fast | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 785 | Going to Texas | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 867 | Gossip | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2474 | Hands in pockets | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2314 | Illusion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2366 | Imitation | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4905 | Killing first deer/marked with blood | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4483 | Laughter as sign of madness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1352 | Life as repetition | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3271 | Little sister | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2659 | Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2622 | Mediation | Recurring Tropes |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
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| 1332 | Nothingness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2653 | Odor | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1985 | Open secret | Recurring Tropes |
Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB |
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| 1923 | Paradox | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2310 | Performance | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2181 | Precognition / Something to happen | Recurring Tropes |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
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| 2626 | Reality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2946 | Recovery | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2631 | Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4398 | Reunion | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4367 | Revenge | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 5329 | Right-of-way | Recurring Tropes |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
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| 1541 | Scandal | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2453 | Searching | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2383 | Secret | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3043 | Sending someone to Jackson | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 845 | Sexual power | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3064 | Shadows | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2876 | Sleeping in same bed | Recurring Tropes |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
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| 2978 | Smelled like trees | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3746 | Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2592 | Solitary | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2030 | Solitude | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2607 | Sound of a gunshot | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3418 | Stillness | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1933 | Sun / Sunlight | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3539 | Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1948 | Threshold | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1259 | Tomorrow and tomorrow | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 2609 | Touch | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1950 | Triumph | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 779 | Trying to say | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 1024 | Twilight | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 873 | Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4210 | Vanishing | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 3417 | Vitality | Recurring Tropes | ||
| 4910 | Year the stars fell | Recurring Tropes |
Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5632 | Ab Snopes at De Spain's house | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5077 | Ab's war wound | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5056 | Architect captured | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5046 | Battle of Jefferson | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5218 | Bayard and the lost generation | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5029 | Bayard avenges Johnny | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5034 | Benjy accosts schoolgirl | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5611 | Benjy castrated | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5204 | Benjy committed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5036 | Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5053 | Boon shoots Negro | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5048 | Buck and Buddy's experiment | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5038 | Burying Sartoris silver | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5031 | Byron robs bank | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5055 | Byron Snopes' children | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5074 | Caddy's marriage ends | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5073 | Caddy's wedding | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5028 | Colonel Sartoris killed | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5208 | Compson land acquired | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5207 | Compsons sell pasture | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5058 | Confederate monument unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5213 | Confederate raid in Memphis | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5069 | De Spain creates camp | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5039 | Doom becomes chief | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5063 | Driving to Goodwin's | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5047 | Etching name on window | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5071 | Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes | ||
| 5042 | First settlers arrive | Recurring Episodes |