Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
4674 Themes and Motifs Objects Canteen
4252 Cultural Issues Clothes Cap
1767 Environment Place Capital
3005 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Capitalization
1768 Environment Place Capitol
4500 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Capone, Al
3930 Actions Physical Capture
1962 Cultural Issues War Capture
1385 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Capture as loss
4829 Actions Military Capturing prisoners
670 Themes and Motifs Objects Car
499 Actions Movement Car
2301 Cultural Issues Technology Car
1350 Themes and Motifs Death Car accident
3487 Actions Violent Car accident
2942 Actions Communication Car horn
4593 Cultural Issues Crime Car theft
4465 Cultural Issues Technology Car tire
2638 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Carcassonne
2074 Actions Play Card playing

Added for moments when it is unclear if (a) the game is poker, or (b) if gambling is occurring. -JBP

3402 Themes and Motifs Objects Cards
2501 Actions Domestic Care
5577 Actions Bodily Caressing
2214 Relationships Hierarchical Caretaker-mentally challenged person
1448 Actions Emotional Caring
2724 Themes and Motifs Community Carnival
4564 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Carolina
888 Actions Work Carpenter
1603 Actions Economic Carpentry
1961 Environment Auditory Carpentry
2226 Cultural Issues History Carpetbaggers
1246 Actions Movement Carriage
2351 Environment Domestic Space Carriage house
1952 Actions Physical Carrying
1416 Cultural Issues Progress Cars
4296 Environment Auditory Cars passing
4344 Actions Movement Cart
4807 Environment Auditory Car|truck movement
906 Themes and Motifs Texts Case file
4853 Themes and Motifs Money Cash
1931 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Cassandra
4390 Cultural Issues Class Caste system
2571 Cultural Issues Violence Castration
3824 Actions Violent Castration
4275 Cultural Issues War Casualties of war
5085 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Cataline / Catiline
5161 Themes and Motifs Objects Catechism
2808 Cultural Issues Religion Catholicism
2722 Themes and Motifs Animals Cats
593 Themes and Motifs Animals Cattle
2544 Cultural Issues Crime Cattle rustling
3855 Themes and Motifs Character Cautious
3445 Environment Natural Cave
3593 Environment Natural Cavern / Grotto
4100 Environment Natural Cedar trees
2923 Actions Interaction, Social Celebration
2919 Environment Domestic Space Cellar
3890 Environment Place Cemetery
4805 Cultural Issues Ritual Cemetery decorations
4213 Actions Communication Censorship
745 Themes and Motifs Texts Census
1496 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Centaur
5405 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Central Park
3423 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Cerberus
4086 Relationships Marital Certificate
4303 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Cervantes, Miguel de
5283 Cultural Issues Law Chain gang
1891 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chains
3066 Themes and Motifs Objects Chair
2137 Cultural Issues Religion Challenge

When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP

2340 Themes and Motifs Objects Chamber pot
2920 Cultural Issues Alcohol Champagne
4736 Cultural Issues Law Chancellor
2034 Themes and Motifs Objects Chandlier
3395 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Change of environment

Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW

2433 Themes and Motifs Naming Change over time
4271 Cultural Issues Clothes Changing clothes
2047 Cultural Issues Modernity Changing customs
3002 Actions Mental Changing one's mind
2294 Cultural Issues Gender Changing relationships

Any time the changing norms and values surrounding gender are commented upon. JB

1340 Actions Mental Channeling

An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR

3450 Actions Verbal Chanting
1369 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Chaos
1669 Environment Atmospheric Chaos
385 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Chaos/Order
3623 Environment Public Chapel
3297 Cultural Issues Education Chapel Service (morning prayers)
5451 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Chaplin, Charlie
366 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Character
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
966 Aesthetics Style Character portrait
2914 Actions Legal Charge/accuse
4656 Themes and Motifs Values Charity
2725 Relationships Civic Charity
1754 Actions Interaction, Social Charity

Here charity is understood as a communal act and is therefore a social interaction. JB

3579 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Charles River
3241 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Charleston, South Carolina
3931 Actions Physical Chase
1498 Actions Movement Chasing
2511 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Chasing a person

For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR

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