Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
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Description |
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5355 | Cultural Issues | History | Spanish Civil War | |
4579 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Spanish-American War | |
3318 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sparrow | |
2960 | Environment | Place | Speakeasy | |
4592 | Actions | Communication | Speaking | |
4023 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Spectacles | |
4576 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Spectate |
Whenever a group of people are watching an event unfold. For example, when the soldiers watch Buck and Buddy play cards in the Unvanquished (50). JB |
2234 | Environment | Atmospheric | Spectral | |
519 | Actions | Verbal | Speculation | |
1234 | Actions | Mental | Speculation | |
1755 | Actions | Verbal | Speech |
Any time someone give a speech, in this case Monk. JB |
2289 | Cultural Issues | Modernity | Speed |
Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB |
2385 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Spell | |
5438 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Spenser, Edmund | |
541 | Cultural Issues | Age | Spinsterhood | |
4901 | Environment | Atmospheric | Spiritual | |
1634 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Spiritual | |
1917 | Actions | Movement | Spitting | |
2288 | Actions | Bodily | Spitting | |
1487 | Cultural Issues | War | Spoils | |
3840 | Actions | Play | Sport-fencing | |
731 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Sports | |
3591 | Actions | Play | Sports Crew / rowing | |
2205 | Actions | Play | Sports Golf | |
4746 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Spousal | |
1013 | Relationships | Marital | Spousal privilege | |
1014 | Cultural Issues | Law | Spousal privilege | |
1822 | Environment | Natural | Spring | |
551 | Environment | Time of Year | Spring | |
2894 | Environment | Place | Spring | |
2283 | Actions | Perceptual | Spying |
Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB |
5227 | Environment | Atmospheric | Squalor | |
1792 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Square brackets | |
5120 | Actions | Physical | Squatting | |
1604 | Actions | Bodily | Squatting | |
1809 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Squirrel | |
1817 | Actions | Hunting | Squirrel hunting | |
2881 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | St. Louis | |
2750 | Actions | Violent | Stabbing | |
4838 | Environment | Place | Stable | |
1020 | Environment | Domestic Space | Stable | |
3056 | Aesthetics | Description | Stage direction | |
2319 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stage manager | |
1527 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Stained glass window | |
2610 | Environment | Domestic Space | Stairway | |
5708 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Stalin, Joseph | |
1413 | Actions | Physical | Stalking | |
5136 | Actions | Bodily | Standing | |
4588 | Actions | Legal | Standing guard | |
3399 | Environment | Olfactory | Starch | |
1072 | Actions | Bodily | Staring | |
4018 | Environment | Atmospheric | Starlight | |
2221 | Environment | Natural | Stars | |
5140 | Actions | Physical | Starting fire | |
3908 | Actions | Physical | Starting over | |
1898 | Actions | Bodily | Starvation | |
3004 | Cultural Issues | Government | State capital | |
5517 | Cultural Issues | Government | State government | |
3026 | Cultural Issues | Government | State laws and regulations | |
3139 | Actions | Verbal | Stating intent to leave home / run away | |
2059 | Cultural Issues | Materialism | Status |
Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers. |
1258 | Cultural Issues | Class | Status, low | |
1113 | Actions | Moral | Stealing | |
3533 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Steam locomotive | |
918 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Steamboat | |
2517 | Actions | Movement | Steamboat | |
5602 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Steamboat race | |
5511 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Steamboats | |
3877 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stencil | |
3837 | Relationships | Familial | Stepparent-child | |
3647 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity | |
1124 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype cannibalism | |
872 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype eyes | |
3939 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Stereotype librarian / school teacher | |
4566 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype lower intelligence | |
1499 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype mule | |
4584 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype Superstitious | |
991 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype sweat | |
837 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype: smell | |
1940 | Cultural Issues | Race | Stereotype: teeth | |
5311 | Aesthetics | Diction | Stereotypical Jewish accent |
Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB |
2866 | Environment | Atmospheric | Sterile | |
710 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Still | |
581 | Environment | Atmospheric | Stillness | |
3418 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Stillness | |
3068 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stingy with money | |
2119 | Actions | Economic | Stock trading |
Term for those who buy or sell "stock" - horses, mules, etc. -JBP |
4319 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Stockings | |
4484 | Themes and Motifs | Character | stoic | |
2217 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stolen | |
2546 | Cultural Issues | War | Stolen valor |
Whenever someone claims to have fought in a war, but it is implied that he (always he) did not do so. This comes up quite a bit in Faulkner. JB |
1740 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Stomach/belly | |
2597 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stone | |
3783 | Environment | Place | Stone wall | |
4889 | Actions | Movement | Stopping | |
491 | Environment | Public | Store | |
1843 | Actions | Work | Store clerk | |
4022 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Store clothes | |
5527 | Actions | Economic | Store owner | |
3504 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Store owner-customer |