Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
5681 Themes and Motifs Objects Kettle
2342 Themes and Motifs Objects Keys
2454 Themes and Motifs Objects Keys
3644 Cultural Issues Clothes Khaki
2565 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Khan, Genghis
2820 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Kiblett, Arkansas
2483 Actions Violent Kicking
1980 Actions Physical Kicking
1429 Actions Violent Kidnapping
3999 Cultural Issues Law Kidnapping
3063 Cultural Issues Crime Kidnapping
4844 Actions Violent Killing
1588 Cultural Issues Violence Killing animal
4905 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Killing first deer/marked with blood
2715 Actions Violent Killing in war
2072 Actions Violent Killing of animals

This was added to refer to violence related to the killing of animals, either by humans or by other animals. (Some overlap, perhaps, with Animal predatory behavior.) -JBP
3917 Themes and Motifs Death Killing oneself slowly
3739 Cultural Issues Clothes Kimono
3608 Aesthetics Figures of Speech King and/or queen
3182 Cultural Issues History King Cotton
568 Relationships Familial Kinless
1141 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Kinlessness

I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW
1021 Relationships Familial Kinship
3111 Actions Bodily Kissing
1389 Actions Physical Kissing
578 Environment Domestic Space Kitchen
4237 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
3573 Themes and Motifs Body Knee
3114 Actions Bodily Kneeling
1395 Themes and Motifs Objects knife
1770 Actions Domestic Knitting
5121 Actions Mental Knowing
4136 Themes and Motifs Community Knowledge
814 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Knowledge
1873 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Koran
4976 Cultural Issues War Korean War
5423 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Kreisler, Fritz
2640 Cultural Issues Race Ku Klux Klan
4965 Cultural Issues History Ku Klux Klan
273 Cultural Issues Slavery Labor
472 Cultural Issues (First level term) Labor
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
4707 Cultural Issues Economy Labor trouble
5454 Cultural Issues Economy Labor unions
2859 Cultural Issues Clothes Lace
1347 Themes and Motifs Determinism Lack of choice
4375 Actions Communication Lack of communication

To be used generally for any instance in which information is suppressed or not passed between individuals. This can apply to individuals sharing the same space or to communication across longer distances. JC
2307 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Lack of Punctuation
4642 Themes and Motifs Money Lacking
3971 Themes and Motifs Objects Ladder
2935 Environment Domestic Space Ladies parlor
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
4833 Cultural Issues Gender Lady's accoutrements
1075 Environment Time of Year Laid-by season
5458 Cultural Issues Economy Laissez-faire capitalism
3233 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lamar
3506 Themes and Motifs Objects Lamp or lantern
3337 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lancelot
242 Cultural Issues (First level term) Land-Use
817 Relationships Hierarchical Landlord-tenant
973 Relationships Commercial Landlord-tenant
1813 Environment Natural Landmark

This term can be used for natural phenomena used as a landmark. (Added for the Gum Tree -- capitalized in the text -- used in "Lion" and related texts like "The Bear.")
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
3440 Actions Work Landscaping
1410 Environment Place Lane
1100 Aesthetics (First level term) Language
2652 Cultural Issues Violence Language

To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC
3957 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Language barrier
5455 Actions Communication Language barriers
4582 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lao Tse (Laozi)
2967 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Latin pastoral poetry
3168 Aesthetics Language Latin phrase
2708 Actions Bodily Laughing
1432 Actions Emotional Laughing
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
5271 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Launcelot
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
4653 Environment Place Lavatory
546 Cultural Issues Race Law
437 Cultural Issues (First level term) Law
986 Actions Work Law enforcement
518 Cultural Issues Education Law school
1132 Cultural Issues Law Law school
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
3899 Environment Place Lawns
2767 Cultural Issues Alcohol Laws

This keyword covers any laws and regulations regarding the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol. This covers "Blue Laws", bootlegging, and other legal frameworks. The reason for putting this under Alcohol and not crime was that this is not to highlight any specific law or that someone has even committed a crime, but rather the legal structure affirms or contradicts cultural norms around alcohol. JB
4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
744 Relationships Institutional Lawyer-client
1134 Actions Work Lawyering

Performing any sort of work as an attorney at law. JW
4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
4753 Cultural Issues Religion Lay preacher
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
822 Relationships Hierarchical Leader
976 Actions Interaction, Social Leadership
3846 Environment Natural Leaf / leaves
5395 Cultural Issues History League of Nations
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
3517 Actions Mental Learning
2155 Cultural Issues Sexuality Learning about

This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP
2206 Themes and Motifs Psychological Learning disability

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