Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
4984 Environment Place Mill
3797 Actions Work Milling
5437 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Milton, John
3446 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Milton, John
2687 Actions Physical Mimicking
3731 Actions Work Miners / mining
1540 Relationships Institutional Minister and parishioner
316 Cultural Issues Slavery Minstrelsy

Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR
1004 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Minstrelsy
4094 Cultural Issues Alcohol Mint julep
2634 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Mirage
4142 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Mirror
2629 Themes and Motifs Objects Mirror
3223 Actions Bodily Miscarriage
1762 Cultural Issues Law Miscarriage of justice
279 Cultural Issues Slavery Miscegenation
1587 Cultural Issues Race Miscegenation
4663 Actions Communication Miscommunication
1569 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Misconduct
3160 Themes and Motifs Meaning Misinterpretation
3305 Aesthetics Diction Misogynistic wording
5154 Themes and Motifs Values Misogyny
1563 Actions Perceptual Misreading
5435 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Miss America
5035 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Miss Quentin runs away
4148 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Missing
874 Cultural Issues Law Missing person
4464 Cultural Issues Education Missing school
4586 Actions Work Missing work
2886 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi
5526 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi Delta
1874 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Mississippi Reports
3551 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi River
5772 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi Valley
4779 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Missouri
3982 Actions Verbal Misspeaking
3754 Aesthetics Language Misspelling
3044 Cultural Issues Violence Mistaken for sexual assault
4273 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Mistaken identity
3219 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Mistinguett
542 Cultural Issues Law Mistrial
2219 Actions Mental Misunderstanding
793 Cultural Issues Race Mixed race
2711 Actions Interaction, Social Mixed-race gathering
2218 Actions Emotional Moaning
567 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Mob behavior
5265 Aesthetics Tone Mock-heroic
3245 Themes and Motifs Animals Mockingbird
3199 Cultural Issues Clothes Modern fashions
4449 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernist style

When text makes fairly explicit reference to "modernism" as a movement, like the cubistic bug in As I Lay Dying or the modernist lampstand in Sanctuary. SR
440 Cultural Issues (First level term) Modernity
5603 Cultural Issues Modernity Modernization
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
4160 Actions Perceptual Moment of vision

For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR
5181 Environment Place Monastery
5641 Environment Time of Day Monday
4147 Environment Time of Year Monday
559 Environment Time of Day Monday morning
382 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Money
4477 Themes and Motifs Money Money order
1282 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Money|Wealth
3424 Actions Verbal Monologue
2168 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Monroe, Marilyn
5741 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Monster / monstrous
2941 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Monteagle, Tennessee
4730 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Montesquieu
4789 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Montgomery, Alabama
3710 Environment Time of Year Month of brides
1803 Themes and Motifs Objects Monument
495 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Monument
2049 Environment Place Moon
1427 Environment Natural Moon
3946 Environment Otherworldly Moon / Lunar
603 Environment Atmospheric Moonlit
3935 Cultural Issues Economy Moonshine
3249 Cultural Issues Alcohol Moonshine
3934 Cultural Issues Crime Moonshining
350 Actions (First level term) Moral
1630 Themes and Motifs Values Moral authority
3722 Themes and Motifs Morals Morality
4405 Actions Verbal Moralizing
1092 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Morals
5390 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Morgan, J.P.
4324 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Morgan, John Hunt
492 Environment Time of Day Morning
2057 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Moses
1820 Themes and Motifs Animals Mosquitoes
3980 Environment Natural Moss
2336 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Moth
604 Relationships Familial Mother-daughter
1271 Relationships Familial Mother-daughter passim
4550 Relationships Familial Mother-in-law
4837 Relationships Familial Mother-infant
656 Relationships Familial Mother-son
2472 Relationships Familial Mother-son
1859 Relationships Familial Motherhood

As a part of one's identity. I created it when Temple Drake (in Requiem) notes that she had become a mother but never exorcised her culturally improper sexual desires. SR
1774 Themes and Motifs Psychological Motivation
2277 Cultural Issues Law Motor vehicle

This keyword notes the creation and enforcement of motor vehicle laws. Notably the prohibition on automobiles by Colonel John Sartoris. JB
2274 Environment Place Motordrome
2278 Cultural Issues Entertainment Motoring

Any time someone goes driving for recreational reasons. JB

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