Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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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 | |
5664 | Environment | Time of Day | Two o'clock a.m. | |
5638 | Environment | Time of Day | Two o'clock p.m. | |
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 | |
4982 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Unidentified character | |
891 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Uniform | |
737 | Cultural Issues | War | Union Army | |
1456 | Cultural Issues | War | Unity |
This keyword describes the way in which war calls upon disparate people to fight for the same ideal. The specific example this is based on is Southerners ultimately fighting in the United States army in later wars, but could also described the camaraderie between allied nations. Joost Burgers |
5381 | Cultural Issues | Education | University of Mississippi | |
2293 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | University of Mississippi | |
4293 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | University of Virginia | |
2067 | Actions | Perceptual | Unknowable |
This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP |
4752 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Unknowable | |
3832 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Unnatural / Contrary to nature | |
2211 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Unreliable narrator | |
2947 | Relationships | Romantic | Unrequited | |
2104 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Unruliness | |
2983 | Environment | Auditory | Unseen voice | |
2428 | Actions | Communication | Unsent message | |
3107 | Aesthetics | Ambiguity | Unspecified shapes | |
1231 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Unspecified sickness | |
4294 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Unsynchronized clocks | |
4783 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Upliftment |
Whenever a member of the community takes it upon him or herself to "uplift" the rest of the members of the community, whether they want to be uplifted or not. The specific example is John Sartoris in The Unvanquished who has grand plans for the people of Jefferson (223). |
5342 | Cultural Issues | Race | Uppitiness | |
1461 | Environment | Domestic Space | Upstairs | |
873 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Upward mobility | |
4869 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Urban | |
4629 | Actions | Bodily | Urinating | |
2770 | Environment | Olfactory | Urine | |
1734 | Cultural Issues | Government | US Bureau of Indian Affairs | |
1733 | Cultural Issues | Government | US Post Office | |
4762 | Cultural Issues | Race | Using a Negro as messenger | |
1550 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Using Indians as names | |
1464 | Cultural Issues | Government | Usurpation | |
3239 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Utah Beach | |
1326 | Environment | Place | Vacant house | |
2125 | Environment | Place | Vacant lot | |
1747 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vagrancy | |
5535 | Cultural Issues | Education | Valedictorian | |
5357 | Environment | Time of Year | Valentine's Day | |
5444 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Valhalla | |
5175 | Environment | Natural | Valley | |
3728 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Valley of the shadow of death | |
912 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Valor | |
395 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Values | |
2341 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Vampire | |
4323 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Van Dorn, Earl |