Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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4475 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Leprosy | |
3806 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Lethe | |
788 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Letter | |
1494 | Actions | Communication | Letter | |
1705 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letter of protest | |
1343 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letters | |
3906 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Lexington, Virginia | |
2578 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Liberal |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
1695 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Liberty | |
3920 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Librarian look | |
789 | Environment | Domestic Space | Library | |
733 | Environment | Place | Library | |
5597 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | License Plate | |
3821 | Environment | Natural | Lichen / fungi | |
3766 | Cultural Issues | Education | Life after graduation | |
1352 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Life as repetition | |
3147 | Actions | Physical | Lifting | |
728 | Environment | Atmospheric | Light | |
5601 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Lighting |
For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP |
1222 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Lightning bugs | |
3303 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Like death | |
2693 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Lilith | |
3221 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Lilith | |
5656 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Lilliput | |
5515 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Limbourg, Belgium | |
3419 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Liminal |
For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP |
3833 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Limitations of words / language | |
3652 | Actions | Movement | Limousine | |
4411 | Actions | Bodily | Limping | |
1441 | Actions | Movement | Limping | |
2326 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Lincoln, Abraham | |
3217 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Lind, Jenny | |
2795 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Lion | |
2794 | Actions | Hunting | Lion hunting | |
3990 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Lips | |
3510 | Aesthetics | Style | List | |
944 | Actions | Verbal | Listen | |
697 | Actions | Perceptual | Listening | |
4315 | Actions | Communication | Listening | |
4670 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Lithographs | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
2055 | Actions | Work | Livery stable | |
2010 | Environment | Place | Livery stable | |
4907 | Cultural Issues | Agriculture | Livestock | |
1968 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Livestock | |
1868 | Actions | Agricultural | Livestock care | |
4773 | Environment | Domestic Space | Livestock pen | |
1812 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Living in the present |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
5084 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Livy | |
3363 | Actions | Physical | Loading | |
2728 | Cultural Issues | Government | Local laws and regulations | |
3863 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Local legend | |
3382 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Local legends |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
2419 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Local origins | |
5566 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Local political bosses | |
4215 | Aesthetics | Description | Location portrait | |
4101 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Locked | |
3155 | Actions | Physical | Locking a door | |
1717 | Actions | Legal | Locking up | |
2455 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Locks | |
2485 | Environment | Olfactory | Locust | |
2548 | Environment | Domestic Space | Loft | |
1181 | Environment | Domestic Space | Log house | |
2760 | Environment | Domestic Space | Log yard | |
2046 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Logging | |
4360 | Actions | Mental | Logically reasoning | |
2827 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | London | |
2157 | Environment | Place | Lonelier parts of town |
Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP |
5440 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Long Island, New York | |
3621 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Long name | |
2158 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Long passage of time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
1888 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence | |
3037 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence passim | |
3447 | Actions | Emotional | Longing | |
3270 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Longing for death | |
1215 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Longstreet, James | |
5146 | Actions | Bodily | Looking | |
689 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking | |
3497 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking away | |
3955 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking back | |
5061 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Looking upon evil | |
4812 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Lookout Mountain | |
2596 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Loom | |
1999 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Loot | |
2335 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Looting | |
2819 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Lord Fauntleroy | |
5554 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Los Angeles | |
4680 | Actions | Bodily | Losing consciousness | |
2563 | Actions | Work | Losing job | |
3826 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Losing vs never having |
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP |
2299 | Actions | Bodily | Losing weight | |
2089 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of animal companion | |
5570 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Loss of eyesight | |
2439 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Loss of flora | |
3132 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of innocence | |
2450 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of object | |
767 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Loss of wilderness | |
2438 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Loss of wildlife | |
2216 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Lost | |
948 | Cultural Issues | Region | Lost Cause |