Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
5261 Cultural Issues Law Civil suit
4981 Cultural Issues History Civil Rights legislation
1321 Relationships Marital Civil marriage
1678 Themes and Motifs Texts Civic records
2514 Cultural Issues Government Civic officials
3033 Cultural Issues Entertainment Civic events
1704 Actions Interaction, Social Civic dispute
1729 Actions Interaction, Social Civic discussion
2412 Cultural Issues Economy Civic boosterism
4737 Cultural Issues Ritual Civic
398 Relationships (First level term) Civic
1849 Cultural Issues Politics City government
1837 Environment Place City

For when a place is characterized by its built-up nature, especially as a contrast to town or rural places (e.g., "the tall buildings and the hard pavements and the street cars" in "Lion"). JBP
4051 Themes and Motifs Texts Citizenship papers
3662 Cultural Issues Entertainment Circus
3176 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Cincinnatus
5406 Themes and Motifs Objects Cigarette lighter
3800 Themes and Motifs Objects Cigarette
1042 Themes and Motifs Objects Cigar
2487 Environment Olfactory Cigar
4522 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Cicero
1221 Themes and Motifs Animals Cicadas
4314 Actions Work Churning butter
5477 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Churchill, Winston
4277 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough
5323 Relationships Institutional Church-Town

Relationship between any of the Churches and the Town in which they are situated. The specific example here is that even though Reverend Schultz and his church found a new clerk to replace Uncle Willy, no one trusted the new stranger.
3869 Environment Public Church steeple
3298 Cultural Issues Religion Church service
1942 Environment Public Church
2713 Actions Interaction, Social Church
2732 Environment Place Church
2096 Aesthetics Narrative Chronological enjambment

When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other.
4850 Environment Time of Year Christmas, figuratively

Any time someone refers to Christmas in relation to it being a particularly auspicious day. In this case, it is being used by "Uncle Willy" to describe when he'll be in California (242). JB
3542 Cultural Issues Ritual Christmas holiday traditions
3529 Cultural Issues Ritual Christmas gift game
2344 Environment Time of Year Christmas Eve
4709 Themes and Motifs Texts Christmas card
1197 Environment Time of Year Christmas
4515 Cultural Issues Religion Christianity
3272 Themes and Motifs Art Christian art or iconography
2506 Aesthetics Symbolism Christian
5693 Cultural Issues Religion Christening
1336 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Christ
1059 Actions Physical Chopping wood
902 Actions Work Chopping wood
1212 Actions Agricultural Chopping
1440 Actions Bodily Choking
1320 Themes and Motifs Morals Chivalry
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
2775 Cultural Issues Religion Chistian Scientist
3995 Themes and Motifs Body Chins
5414 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical China
3788 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Chimera / Chimaera
2192 Actions Play Children playing
3536 Themes and Motifs Character Childlike
3505 Relationships Familial Childlessness
1298 Relationships Friendship Childhood friends
1288 Cultural Issues Age Childhood
1237 Actions Bodily Childbirth
4336 Actions Domestic Child-rearing
1519 Relationships Interracial Child-adult
5228 Aesthetics Narrative Child's perspective
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
4472 Actions Economic Child support
1397 Relationships Civic child protection
5290 Actions Agricultural Child labor
1209 Actions Domestic Child care
678 Relationships Hierarchical Child as authority
1291 Cultural Issues Violence Child abuse
4997 Themes and Motifs Death Child
2955 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Chickhahominy River
1739 Themes and Motifs Animals Chickens/roosters
4031 Environment Domestic Space Chicken coop / hen house
826 Cultural Issues Race Chickasaw
4811 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Chickamauga
2167 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Chicago
1851 Actions Bodily Chewing
3903 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chess imagery stalemate
4443 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chess
2730 Actions Play Chess
2729 Actions Play Checkers
4119 Themes and Motifs Money Check
3757 Actions Moral Cheating
3688 Cultural Issues Gender Chauvinism / Misogyny
2436 Actions Verbal Chatter
2882 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Chattanooga, Tennessee
5117 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Chateau-Thierry
4675 Themes and Motifs Objects Chastity belt
3829 Cultural Issues Gender Chastity / purity
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
1498 Actions Movement Chasing
3931 Actions Physical Chase
3241 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Charleston, South Carolina
3579 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Charles River
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
2914 Actions Legal Charge/accuse
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
966 Aesthetics Style Character portrait

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