Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
Term![]() |
Description |
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1478 | Cultural Issues | War | Deprivation |
Individuals or groups who have been deprived of resources and comfort. JB |
3845 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Depth / deepness | |
764 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Deracination | |
1437 | Environment | Atmospheric | Dereliction | |
5624 | Aesthetics | Diction | Derogatory socio-economic term | |
4359 | Relationships | Familial | Descendants | |
1099 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Description | |
2374 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Desert island | |
4763 | Cultural Issues | War | Desertion | |
1233 | Relationships | Marital | Desertion | |
3811 | Relationships | Sexual | Desertion | |
903 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Desertion-family | |
4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design | |
1565 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Desire | |
506 | Actions | Emotional | Despair | |
2183 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Destiny | |
4713 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Destroyed | |
2702 | Cultural Issues | War | Destruction | |
3022 | Actions | Military | Destruction of enemy property | |
1835 | Actions | Violent | Destructive behavior |
Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP |
2356 | Actions | Emotional | Detachment | |
4749 | Aesthetics | Genre Conventions | Detective fiction | |
1994 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Determination | |
371 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Determinism | |
827 | Environment | Atmospheric | Devastation | |
4711 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Developmental problems | |
2384 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Devotion | |
2926 | Environment | Natural | Dew | |
971 | Actions | Verbal | Dialogue | |
3281 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Dialogue with no quotation marks | |
4683 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dice | |
5467 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Dickens, Charles | |
3782 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Dickinson, Emily | |
3230 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dickson | |
407 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Diction | |
1493 | Actions | Physical | Digging | |
1531 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Dignity | |
1796 | Environment | Domestic Space | Dilapidation | |
1698 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dillinger, John | |
3227 | Cultural Issues | Agriculture | Diminishing farms | |
3913 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Diminishment / fading | |
977 | Environment | Domestic Space | Dining room | |
1433 | Environment | Time of Day | Dinner | |
5245 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Dionysus | |
1217 | Actions | Bodily | Dipping snuff | |
3651 | Actions | Movement | Direction east | |
3559 | Environment | Natural | Dirt / Earth | |
4804 | Environment | Place | Dirt lane | |
3605 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Dirty | |
2459 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Dirty | |
3968 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Dirty girl | |
909 | Actions | Verbal | Disagreeing | |
1725 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Disappearance | |
4376 | Actions | Emotional | Disappointment | |
3685 | Actions | Mental | Disapproval | |
2912 | Actions | Mental | Disbelief | |
1170 | Actions | Legal | Discharging jury | |
314 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Discipline |
For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR |
1916 | Actions | Domestic | Discipline | |
2128 | Actions | Physical | Discovering |
For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP |
3174 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Discovering it | |
1203 | Actions | Mental | Discovery | |
1070 | Actions | Verbal | Discussion | |
5266 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Disdaining money | |
4408 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Disease | |
1902 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Disease | |
3426 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Disembodiment | |
3669 | Cultural Issues | Race | Disenfranchisement | |
5094 | Actions | Violent | Disfigurement | |
1497 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Disguise | |
4614 | Actions | Emotional | Disgust | |
3648 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Disgust with sex | |
5187 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dishes | |
3809 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Dishonor | |
5307 | Actions | Bodily | Dismemberment | |
4866 | Actions | Work | Dismissal | |
4063 | Actions | Legal | Dismissing a case | |
4605 | Actions | Work | Dismissing from work | |
503 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Disorder | |
5257 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Disordered | |
4199 | Actions | Mental | Disorientation | |
2133 | Cultural Issues | War | Displacement | |
2669 | Cultural Issues | History | Dispossessing Indians | |
3012 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Dispossession | |
4868 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Disruption | |
2678 | Cultural Issues | Class | Disruption | |
1910 | Relationships | Familial | Dissolution | |
4188 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Distance from home |
For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR |
3801 | Actions | Mental | Distraction | |
3660 | Actions | Mental | Distrust | |
600 | Environment | Place | Ditch | |
3649 | Environment | Natural | Ditches | |
1930 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Divine intervention | |
3109 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Divine judgment | |
1779 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Divine plan | |
3701 | Cultural Issues | Education | Divinity school | |
1446 | Cultural Issues | Race | Division | |
4125 | Relationships | Marital | Divorce | |
3752 | Actions | Legal | Divorce | |
1936 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Djinn |