Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
3906 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Lexington, Virginia
1343 Themes and Motifs Texts Letters
1705 Themes and Motifs Texts Letter of protest
788 Themes and Motifs Objects Letter
1494 Actions Communication Letter
3806 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Lethe
4474 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Leprosy
4475 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Leprosy
5716 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lenin, Vladimir
3316 Actions Economic Lending Money
3992 Themes and Motifs Body Legs
3021 Cultural Issues Government Legislative action
3347 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Legends in American history
648 Actions Moral Legal surrender
5298 Cultural Issues Law Legal ownership
1011 Cultural Issues Law Legal issue
4049 Cultural Issues Law Legal fine
1232 Cultural Issues Law Legal document
5297 Aesthetics Language Legal definitions
1249 Cultural Issues Law Legal authority
5547 Cultural Issues Law Legal advice
1086 Actions (First level term) Legal
2202 Cultural Issues Slavery Legacy after emancipation

Refers to when a text alludes to the legacy of slavery years (or decades) after the end of slavery. It was created to tag the references to "sold my Benjamin" in "Go Down, Moses" - a story whose very title alludes to slavery. JBP
3361 Cultural Issues Food Leftovers
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
5659 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical LeFlore, Greenwood
2661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lee, Robert Edward
4115 Cultural Issues Economy Ledger
1731 Themes and Motifs Texts Ledger
4158 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Leda and the Swan
4052 Actions Work Leaving work
2094 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving home
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2206 Themes and Motifs Psychological Learning disability
2155 Cultural Issues Sexuality Learning about

This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP
3517 Actions Mental Learning
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
5395 Cultural Issues History League of Nations
3846 Environment Natural Leaf / leaves
976 Actions Interaction, Social Leadership
822 Relationships Hierarchical Leader
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
4753 Cultural Issues Religion Lay preacher
4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
1134 Actions Work Lawyering

Performing any sort of work as an attorney at law. JW
744 Relationships Institutional Lawyer-client
4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
2767 Cultural Issues Alcohol Laws

This keyword covers any laws and regulations regarding the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol. This covers "Blue Laws", bootlegging, and other legal frameworks. The reason for putting this under Alcohol and not crime was that this is not to highlight any specific law or that someone has even committed a crime, but rather the legal structure affirms or contradicts cultural norms around alcohol. JB
3899 Environment Place Lawns
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
518 Cultural Issues Education Law school
1132 Cultural Issues Law Law school
986 Actions Work Law enforcement
546 Cultural Issues Race Law
437 Cultural Issues (First level term) Law
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
4653 Environment Place Lavatory
5271 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Launcelot
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
2708 Actions Bodily Laughing
1432 Actions Emotional Laughing
3168 Aesthetics Language Latin phrase
2967 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Latin pastoral poetry
4582 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lao Tse (Laozi)
5455 Actions Communication Language barriers
3957 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Language barrier
1100 Aesthetics (First level term) Language
2652 Cultural Issues Violence Language

To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC
1410 Environment Place Lane
3440 Actions Work Landscaping
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
1813 Environment Natural Landmark

This term can be used for natural phenomena used as a landmark. (Added for the Gum Tree -- capitalized in the text -- used in "Lion" and related texts like "The Bear.")
817 Relationships Hierarchical Landlord-tenant
973 Relationships Commercial Landlord-tenant
242 Cultural Issues (First level term) Land-Use
3337 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lancelot
3506 Themes and Motifs Objects Lamp or lantern
3233 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lamar
5458 Cultural Issues Economy Laissez-faire capitalism
1075 Environment Time of Year Laid-by season
4833 Cultural Issues Gender Lady's accoutrements
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
2935 Environment Domestic Space Ladies parlor
3971 Themes and Motifs Objects Ladder
4642 Themes and Motifs Money Lacking
2307 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Lack of Punctuation
4375 Actions Communication Lack of communication

To be used generally for any instance in which information is suppressed or not passed between individuals. This can apply to individuals sharing the same space or to communication across longer distances. JC
1347 Themes and Motifs Determinism Lack of choice
2859 Cultural Issues Clothes Lace
5454 Cultural Issues Economy Labor unions
4707 Cultural Issues Economy Labor trouble
273 Cultural Issues Slavery Labor
472 Cultural Issues (First level term) Labor
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
2640 Cultural Issues Race Ku Klux Klan
4965 Cultural Issues History Ku Klux Klan
5423 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Kreisler, Fritz
4976 Cultural Issues War Korean War
1873 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Koran
4136 Themes and Motifs Community Knowledge

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