Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1895 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Genesis
4878 Themes and Motifs Determinism Genetic
409 Aesthetics (First level term) Genre Conventions
2989 Cultural Issues Class Gentility
5371 Cultural Issues Gender Gentleman
2286 Actions Interaction, Social Gentleman's agreement

Set of non-legally binding norms and values between two men. Distinct from Noblesse Oblige this is not class based, but gender based. Faulkner also uses this ironically at times. JB
5441 Cultural Issues Progress Gentrification
4385 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Georgia
4735 Aesthetics Language German
4311 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Germany
5613 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Gestures
4332 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Gethsemane
4061 Actions Economic Getting a receipt
4257 Themes and Motifs Home Getting away
4220 Actions Movement Getting closer

When someone's thoughts during a journey are focused on the place they're heading for, either with excitement or dread or something in between. SR
1648 Actions Work Getting water
2759 Actions Physical Getting water
3050 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Gettysburg
3205 Environment Place Ghetto
3587 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ghost
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
3136 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Ghost story
859 Cultural Issues Economy Gift
3149 Themes and Motifs Money Gift of money
1109 Actions Economic Gifting
4268 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Gilbert and Sullivan
2582 Cultural Issues Alcohol Gin
5234 Actions Agricultural Ginning cotton
4537 Themes and Motifs Animals Giraffe
4728 Actions Verbal Giving advice
4925 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Glasgow, Scotland
3558 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Glass
3443 Actions Work Glassblowing
4091 Cultural Issues Clothes Glasses
434 Cultural Issues (First level term) Global
1908 Environment Atmospheric Gloom
4561 Cultural Issues War Glorification
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
1538 Cultural Issues Clothes Glove
4030 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Glove
1201 Themes and Motifs Animals Goat
3612 Cultural Issues Religion God
2390 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical God / Jehovah
3614 Cultural Issues Religion God with human characteristics

For when God is described as human-like -- added for when Quentin said God is "not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too." JBP
961 Cultural Issues Religion Godhead
3772 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Gods
4110 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Goethe, Johann
4659 Cultural Issues Clothes Goggles
1256 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going fast
1552 Actions Bodily Going to bed
785 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going to Texas
2520 Cultural Issues War Going to war
1997 Themes and Motifs Money Gold
2559 Themes and Motifs Objects Gold tooth
2810 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Goldwater, Barry
2879 Themes and Motifs Objects Golf ball
2215 Environment Public Golf course
3194 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Gone With the Wind
1559 Themes and Motifs Values Good conduct
5575 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Good Samaritan
4013 Actions Hunting Goose hunting
3322 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Gospel of Luke
3325 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Gospel of Matthew
2823 Actions Communication Gossip

The original definition here was "informal oral networks", which was too technical, but perhaps more accurate. In essence, gossip here is a means for the whole community to become aware of news. JB
867 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gossip
671 Actions Verbal Gossip
502 Actions Interaction, Social Gossip
520 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Gothic
1848 Actions Work Government
435 Cultural Issues (First level term) Government
5331 Cultural Issues Agriculture Government regulations
3720 Cultural Issues Government Governor
2363 Cultural Issues Clothes Gown
2170 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Grable, Betty
840 Cultural Issues Education Graduation
3173 Themes and Motifs Texts Graffiti
3175 Actions Communication Graffiti
4217 Aesthetics Language Grammatically incorrect
3408 Cultural Issues War Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
5546 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Grand Canyon
1151 Cultural Issues Law Grand jury
1555 Themes and Motifs Past Grander than present
4645 Aesthetics Language Grandiloquence
810 Relationships Familial Grandparent-grandchild
754 Relationships Intergenerational Grandparent-grandchild
2709 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Grant, Ulysses S.
4482 Cultural Issues Mass Media Graphophone
2925 Environment Natural Grass
5573 Themes and Motifs Animals Grasshoppers
5574 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Grasshoppers
3400 Actions Emotional Gratitude
1818 Environment Place Grave
4594 Cultural Issues Crime Grave robbing
1753 Actions Moral Grave-digging or -violating

This is any time when someone is either digging a grave, or trying to disinter a body in a grave. I'm thinking of Mink moving Houston's body in The Hamlet and the Hound, but also Monk trying to dig up his grandmother in Monk.
2449 Environment Place Graveyard
3889 Environment Atmospheric Grayness
4164 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Great Depression
3161 Relationships Familial Great grandfather-grandfather
5565 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Great Lakes
1585 Cultural Issues History Great Migration

This term is widely used by historians to refer to the movement of some six million African Americans out of the South and into the urban North and West between the First World War and the 1960s. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, who in the 1930s leaves Yoknapatawpha to live in Chicago in "Go Down, Moses," is an example of a character who participates in the Great Migration. SR

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