Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
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Description |
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2769 | Environment | Public | Train Station/Train depot | |
4015 | Actions | Military | Training | |
980 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Trains | |
1160 | Themes and Motifs | Inheritance | Traits |
In the biological sense rather than the legal or economic one: inherited physical, psychological, or moral characteristics. JW |
1791 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Traits |
Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR |
3686 | Actions | Physical | Trampling | |
4819 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | Trans-regional | |
4487 | Actions | Economic | Transactional | |
4488 | Cultural Issues | History | Transatlantic migration | |
795 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Transcended | |
3212 | Actions | Communication | Transcribing | |
325 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Transhistorical | |
4871 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Translation | |
838 | Cultural Issues | Labor | Translation | |
869 | Actions | Physical | Transporting | |
2619 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Transsexuality | |
1921 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Trauma | |
4284 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Traumatic | |
4841 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Traumatized | |
3091 | Actions | Physical | Travel | |
1452 | Cultural Issues | Global | Travel | |
1549 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Travel back in time | |
4194 | Actions | Work | Traveling salesman | |
2213 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Traveling show |
Any kind of traveling show - the show in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or the circus in "Light in August." JBP |
3914 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Treadmill | |
4939 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Treason | |
4116 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Treasure | |
4601 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Treaty | |
2929 | Environment | Auditory | Tree / leaves | |
2252 | Environment | Natural | Trees | |
2253 | Environment | Olfactory | Trees | |
1443 | Actions | Physical | Trembling | |
1445 | Actions | Bodily | Trembling | |
2850 | Cultural Issues | War | Trenches | |
4262 | Cultural Issues | Law | Trespassing | |
2523 | Actions | Legal | Trial | |
511 | Cultural Issues | Law | Trial | |
3808 | Actions | Physical | Tripping | |
3336 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Tristan and Isolde | |
3391 | Actions | Emotional | Triumph | |
1950 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Triumph | |
3628 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Trophy | |
4795 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Trotline | |
2316 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Trousseau | |
4435 | Cultural Issues | Education | Truancy | |
2048 | Actions | Movement | Truck | |
1041 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Truck | |
1653 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Trunk | |
1227 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Trust | |
5112 | Relationships | Economical | Trustee-ward | |
591 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Truth/Lies | |
4704 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Trying to go home | |
5219 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Trying to kill Gualdres | |
779 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Trying to say | |
5122 | Environment | Time of Year | Tuesday | |
5470 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Tunbridge Wells, England | |
736 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Turkey | |
1626 | Actions | Hunting | Turkey hunting | |
3989 | Actions | Physical | Turning away | |
4802 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Turtles | |
2417 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Tutor-student | |
5556 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Tutwiler, Mississippi | |
5402 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Twenty-One Club | |
1024 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Twilight | |
500 | Environment | Time of Day | Twilight | |
3595 | Environment | Atmospheric | Twinkling | |
1953 | Relationships | Familial | Twins | |
4533 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Typewriter | |
416 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Typography/Orthography | |
4079 | Cultural Issues | War | U.S. Army | |
4050 | Cultural Issues | Nationality | U.S. citizenship | |
3476 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Ugliness | |
2605 | Actions | Verbal | Ultimatum | |
1658 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Umbrella | |
1422 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Unattractiveness | |
2349 | Actions | Mental | Unaware | |
1881 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Uncertain | |
4159 | Relationships | Familial | Uncertain relationship | |
575 | Actions | Mental | Uncertainty | |
4655 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Uncharitable | |
3528 | Cultural Issues | Race | Uncle as term for black man | |
2818 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Uncle Remus | |
2035 | Cultural Issues | Government | Uncle Sam | |
3697 | Cultural Issues | Race | Uncle Tom | |
3696 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
2444 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Uncle-nephew | |
496 | Relationships | Familial | Uncle-nephew | |
2974 | Relationships | Familial | Uncle-niece | |
2360 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Unconscious | |
4700 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Under oath | |
1375 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, female | |
1374 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, male | |
933 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Underlining | |
981 | Actions | Mental | Understanding | |
555 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Undressing | |
1367 | Actions | Physical | Undressing | |
5592 | Cultural Issues | Labor | Unemployment | |
4183 | Environment | Atmospheric | Unfamiliar place |
When the action of a story takes someone into a place they've never been before, for example the "strange country" that the chase of the deer reaches in "Race at Morning" (301). |
1267 | Aesthetics | Style | Unfinished sentence | |
3830 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Unicorn |