Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
683 Themes and Motifs Values Independence
1785 Actions Emotional Indecision
3394 Actions Economic Indebtedness
4355 Actions Emotional Incredulity
3670 Aesthetics Tone Incongruous
3804 Actions Mental Incomprehension
4751 Actions Agricultural Incompetent farming
5123 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Income
3290 Cultural Issues Sexuality Incest
2944 Cultural Issues Law Incarceration

There are already a number of similar words in the keyword list that denote some type of legal confinement. This one is meant to indicate the general concept of going to jail, not the direct action of someone being sent to jail or prison. JB
1724 Actions Interaction, Social Incarcerating
3555 Actions Mental Inattentativeness
4179 Relationships Sexual Inappropriate
3329 Actions Physical Inaction / Not doing something
4641 Themes and Motifs Futility Inability
1723 Themes and Motifs Money In prospect
1561 Themes and Motifs Home In nature
1349 Themes and Motifs Death In childbirth
5023 Themes and Motifs Futility In battle
3253 Themes and Motifs Character Impulsiveness
4525 Themes and Motifs Home Improvements
685 Actions Economic Impounding
3082 Cultural Issues Sexuality Impotence
2679 Themes and Motifs Character Impotence

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC
2504 Cultural Issues Slavery Imported

To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR
1832 Themes and Motifs Naming Importance of naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP
1275 Cultural Issues Violence Implied shooting
4821 Aesthetics Symbolism Impermanence
1058 Actions Emotional Impatience
2207 Actions Mental Impairment
5571 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Impaired vision
2773 Cultural Issues Clothes Immodest female clothing
3928 Cultural Issues Nationality Immigration|Immigrants
5222 Cultural Issues History Immigration
3962 Environment Domestic Space Immigrant neighborhood
1804 Aesthetics Diction Imitation

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR
2366 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Imitation
2177 Actions Mental Imagining
1805 Aesthetics Narrative Imagined conversation

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR
4677 Themes and Motifs Death Imagined
2138 Cultural Issues Violence Imagined
3222 Themes and Motifs Values Imagination
1346 Cultural Issues Race Imaginary Negro men
3172 Themes and Motifs Futility Illusion of success or victory
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion
1761 Cultural Issues Education Illiteracy
582 Cultural Issues Sexuality Illegitimacy
5439 Themes and Motifs Money Ill-gotten
5075 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
970 Actions Bodily Idleness
471 Cultural Issues (First level term) Identity, Personal
436 Cultural Issues (First level term) Identity, Cultural
3052 Cultural Issues Gender Idealization
5272 Themes and Motifs Values Idealism
2440 Cultural Issues Food Ice-cream
3603 Environment Atmospheric Ice floes / iceberg
5287 Environment Weather Ice
2476 Themes and Motifs Objects Ice
5457 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical I.W.W.|Industrial Workers of the World
2109 Actions Emotional Hysteria
3061 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Hypocritical
4966 Themes and Motifs Character Hypocrisy
1398 Themes and Motifs Morals Hypocrisy
3169 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Hyphen
932 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Hyperbole
4684 Cultural Issues Religion Hymns
3296 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Hymn "Holy Matrimony"
3324 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Hymn "His Eye Is on the Sparrow"
2230 Aesthetics Language Hymn
1742 Actions Verbal Hushing
2587 Cultural Issues Agriculture Husbandry

Any part of a text related to the care and breeding of animals. The immediate context for this is on an actual farm, as for example Mink's attempt to breed his cow with a local bull. It also extends out to any knowledge of animals for the purposes of domestication or labor. For example, Lucius Priest being able to identify a horse as "three-quarters-bred" in The Reivers, though the horse itself is not on a farm. JB
1860 Relationships Familial Husband-wife
674 Relationships Marital Husband-wife
3761 Actions Emotional Hurting
3339 Actions Movement Hurrying
2297 Actions Emotional Hurried
2045 Environment Time of Year Hunting season
769 Relationships Intergenerational Hunting party
3679 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Hunting metaphor / imagery
2451 Themes and Motifs Objects Hunting horn
3817 Environment Auditory Hunting horn
1836 Cultural Issues Clothes Hunting clothes
757 Environment Place Hunting camps
470 Cultural Issues (First level term) Hunting and Fishing
4919 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Hunting
345 Actions (First level term) Hunting
758 Cultural Issues Ritual Hunting
954 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Hunter
1743 Actions Bodily Hungering
1163 Cultural Issues Law Hung jury
3229 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Humphries
998 Aesthetics Tone Humorous
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4156 Actions Emotional Humiliation
4778 Cultural Issues Slavery Humiliation
1159 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human nature
3520 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human experience
5590 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Huey Long
5098 Themes and Motifs Character Hubris
4404 Actions Verbal Howling

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