Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
316 Cultural Issues Slavery Minstrelsy

Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR
1004 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Minstrelsy
1540 Relationships Institutional Minister and parishioner
3731 Actions Work Miners / mining
2687 Actions Physical Mimicking
5437 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Milton, John
3446 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Milton, John
3797 Actions Work Milling
4984 Environment Place Mill
5267 Actions Agricultural Milking a cow
1207 Actions Domestic Milking
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
5269 Environment Olfactory Milk
2497 Themes and Motifs Objects Milk
2414 Cultural Issues Government Militia muster
2156 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Military terminology
4784 Cultural Issues War Military service

Whenever a character did or did not serve in the military during war. In this case, it is Redmond in The Unvanquished (225), but another example is Percy Grimm. JHB
4274 Cultural Issues War Military reassignment
3708 Cultural Issues War Military rank of general
4626 Themes and Motifs Objects Military equipment
4226 Cultural Issues Education Military education
3188 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Military defeat
3023 Themes and Motifs Texts Military communications
4840 Environment Place Military camp
4228 Cultural Issues War Military awards
2329 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Military analogy
776 Relationships Institutional Military
349 Actions (First level term) Military
4974 Relationships Interracial Military
2682 Cultural Issues Clothes Military
2153 Environment Weather Mild
1089 Cultural Issues (First level term) Migration
2701 Actions Movement Migration
614 Environment Time of Day Midnight
308 Cultural Issues Slavery Middle passage
5229 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Middle Ages
4420 Cultural Issues Age Middle age
624 Cultural Issues Class Middle
3690 Environment Time of Day Midday
5170 Environment Time of Year Mid-week
3368 Aesthetics Narrative Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
4666 Themes and Motifs Animals Mice
4380 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mexico
5351 Cultural Issues History Mexican Rebellion
2861 Cultural Issues War Mexican
2130 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Metonym
2106 Cultural Issues Religion Methodism
4909 Environment Atmospheric Meteor shower
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
1324 Themes and Motifs Animals Metaphorical elephant
281 Cultural Issues Slavery Metaphorical

Used to flag the passages in which a narrator or a non-enslaved character uses "slavery" metaphorically, to describe something else. Lucas Burch, for instance, complains that his job at the planing mill has him "slaving all day." SR
1030 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Metaphor
4118 Themes and Motifs Objects Metal detector
484 Aesthetics (First level term) Metafictional
1502 Actions Communication Messenger

Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person.
4532 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Messalina
4305 Actions Verbal Message
5474 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mesopotamia
3032 Aesthetics Metafictional Merging history and fiction
1108 Cultural Issues War Mercenary
1262 Cultural Issues Education Mentorship
1263 Relationships Social Mentorship
1264 Relationships Familial Mentorship
806 Relationships Intergenerational Mentor-disciple
721 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental limitations
1521 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental illness
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
348 Actions (First level term) Mental
3945 Cultural Issues Gender Menstruation / menstrual cycle
5174 Actions Bodily Menstruation
529 Cultural Issues Labor Menial
5369 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Menelaus
5134 Actions Domestic Mending
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
805 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Men
2372 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis, Tennessee
5421 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis Junction
589 Environment Place Memphis
460 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Memory
2103 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Melodrama
3680 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine camphor
4498 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine aspirin
3254 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine
4266 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical treatment
2037 Environment Place Medical practice

Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB
1296 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical advice
2397 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Medical / Surgical
2622 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mediation

Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC
413 Aesthetics (First level term) Media
3751 Actions Physical Meddling
2718 Themes and Motifs Objects Medal
2061 Actions Work Mechanic
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
3515 Themes and Motifs Time Measuring time
2924 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Measles
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
5407 Themes and Motifs Money Meaning of
381 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Meaning
3231 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McLaurin
5670 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McClellan, George B.

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