Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
3381 Environment Auditory Owls
5304 Themes and Motifs Animals Owl
2121 Themes and Motifs Money Owed

This keyword is for when a character claims or otherwise believes he or she is owed money (to repay a debt, as payment for labor, etc.). -JBP
2743 Aesthetics Tone Overwrought

This label is as subjective as it is possibly contentious, yet I have created for those instances in which the tone appears too highfalutin, philosophical, or otherwise "fancy" in relation to the subject matter at hand. The specific example, is from The Reivers when Lucius Priest constantly reflects on his younger self in mock-epic fashion to describe his battles with "Virtue". JB
4334 Actions Emotional Overwhelmed
3682 Environment Olfactory Oversweet organic

Honeysuckle, but also the blooms from the "heaven tree" in Sanctuary, etc.
1383 Actions Perceptual Overhearing
1026 Cultural Issues Clothes Overalls
756 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Over time
886 Actions Emotional Outrage
2543 Environment Place Outlaw country

On a number of occasions, Faulkner makes reference to stretches of outlaw country. Places where illegal and illicit practices transpire, but there is no enforcement by local or federal authority. This is particular in reference to Frenchman's Bend in the Hamlet, but also Ballenbaugh's historic emergence in the Reivers. JB
4745 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Outlander
1462 Environment Domestic Space Outhouse
1387 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Out of ordered place

This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR
336 Environment (First level term) Otherworldly
4084 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Othello
5150 Environment Place Orphanage
913 Relationships Familial Orphan
3122 Aesthetics Narrative Origin
3975 Cultural Issues Sexuality Orgasm
5162 Themes and Motifs Objects Organ
4652 Themes and Motifs Community Ordinary
3265 Actions Verbal Ordering
4048 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Order in a courtroom
4835 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Order
3881 Environment Natural Orchard
4007 Environment Atmospheric Oppressive
2258 Themes and Motifs Character Opportunism
3546 Themes and Motifs Community Opinion
5702 Environment Public Opera house
3354 Themes and Motifs Objects Opera glass
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
1963 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Onomatopoeia
5521 Cultural Issues Politics One-Party
3870 Environment Time of Day One o'clock p.m.
4695 Cultural Issues War On homefront
1720 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal On frontier
4017 Actions Verbal Omission
5778 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Olympus
335 Environment (First level term) Olfactory
2201 Environment Olfactory Old woman smell

For when Faulkner texts make explicit reference to the smell of elderly (old) women - "faint odor of old maidens" in "Go Down, Moses," the "rank smell of female old flesh" in "Absalom," etc. (Question: Does Faulkner ever reference the smell of old MEN?) JBP
1567 Cultural Issues Nationality Old vs New World
3003 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Old vs new selves
3862 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book Song of Songs
3712 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book of Psalms
3866 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book of Proverbs
3567 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book of Isaiah
4959 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament
5299 Cultural Issues History Old South and start of the war
3240 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Old Point Comfort, Virginia
4097 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Old maid
4943 Environment Place Old Jefferson
5742 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Old insult (abiding affront)
5041 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Old Frenchman's arrival
1627 Themes and Motifs Past Old days
1671 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Old days
5024 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Old Bayard's death
2860 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Old Bailey
4341 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Old Bailey
1617 Cultural Issues Age Old age
4914 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oklahoma
4944 Environment Place Okatoba
3812 Cultural Issues Economy Oil business
5433 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Ohio
3974 Aesthetics Language Oh Oh Oh Oh
1904 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Ogre
3058 Environment Place Official office
2949 Environment Domestic Space Office
5015 Actions Work Office
942 Environment Place Office
3048 Actions Economic Offering to sell
3366 Actions Economic Offering to buy
3926 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Offensive terminology
5352 Themes and Motifs Death Of parent
3117 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Of loved one
2653 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Odor
2731 Environment Time of Year October
4035 Actions Legal Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer
1333 Themes and Motifs Psychological Obsession
4191 Actions Perceptual Observing
2256 Relationships Intergenerational Obligation
2377 Themes and Motifs Art Objet d'art
461 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Objects
2918 Actions Physical Obeying / obedience
1463 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Obesity
4081 Themes and Motifs Objects Oars
677 Actions Emotional Nurturing
1378 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Nursing
1206 Actions Domestic Nursing
3538 Aesthetics Style Numerous adjectives
5585 Actions Emotional Numbness
4877 Cultural Issues Crime Numbers
5005 Cultural Issues Sexuality Nudity
1608 Environment Time of Year November
3092 Themes and Motifs Texts Novel
5259 Themes and Motifs Texts Notice
1332 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Nothingness
4218 Themes and Motifs Futility Nothing to do

"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined.
5126 Actions Communication Note
4668 Themes and Motifs Texts Note

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