Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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2236 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Anchovies | |
5397 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | Ancestral | |
397 | Relationships | (First level term) | Ancestral | |
3258 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Anaesthetic | |
1479 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Amulet | |
4113 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Amsterdam | |
3257 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Amputation | |
5519 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Amoral | |
3958 | Environment | Olfactory | Ammonia | |
4219 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Amiens, France | |
2812 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Americans for Democratic Action | |
3359 | Cultural Issues | Materialism | Americana | |
2423 | Cultural Issues | History | American Revolution | |
1711 | Cultural Issues | War | American Revolution | |
3345 | Cultural Issues | History | American historical myths | |
3195 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | American | |
1257 | Cultural Issues | Nationality | American | |
3096 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Cultural | America vs Europe | |
1730 | Cultural Issues | Cultural Identity | America and opportunity | |
328 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | Amelioration |
To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR |
3192 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Ambush | |
898 | Actions | Physical | Ambush | |
4263 | Actions | Movement | Ambulance | |
2346 | Actions | Emotional | Ambivalence | |
538 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Ambitious | |
635 | Cultural Issues | Class | Ambition | |
4747 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Ambiguous circumstances | |
1693 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | Ambiguous | |
1572 | Actions | Perceptual | Ambiguity | |
1692 | Aesthetics | Interpretation | Ambiguity | |
485 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Ambiguity | |
2031 | Actions | Emotional | Amazement | |
3215 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Alternative story | |
4065 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Personal | Alter ego / other self | |
2936 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Alps | |
3448 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Aloneness |
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP |
5249 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Alma Tadema | |
1098 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Allusion, Mythical | |
1097 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Allusion, Literary | |
406 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Allusion, Historical | |
1096 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Allusion, Geographical | |
1095 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Allusion, Biblical | |
3010 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Alligators | |
2014 | Environment | Public | Alley | |
1147 | Relationships | Marital | Alleged | |
2872 | Cultural Issues | Gender | All-male space | |
5450 | Aesthetics | Language | All right, all right, all right | |
2017 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | All caps | |
4628 | Actions | Bodily | Alimentary | |
4447 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Alienation from nature | |
2331 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Alienation | |
1745 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alienating |
Any time the legal system alienates a person caught up in it, whether the person is guilty or not. The direct example here is Monk, but Mink Snopes is equally alienated, because he does not understand how the system works and suffers more dire consequences because of it. |
1778 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alibi | |
1783 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Alias | |
3181 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Alexander | |
3915 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Alcoholism | |
465 | Cultural Issues | (First level term) | Alcohol | |
2772 | Environment | Olfactory | Alcohol | |
1459 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Alarm |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
4381 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Alabama Secession Convention | |
4195 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Alabama | |
4414 | Environment | Auditory | Airplane sound | |
4413 | Actions | Violent | Airplane crash | |
3252 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Airplane | |
5310 | Environment | Public | Airfield | |
3035 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Air travel | |
3214 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Air gun | |
5419 | Actions | Moral | Aiding and abetting | |
3470 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Ahenobarbus | |
4326 | Aesthetics | Language | Ah-h-h | |
1380 | Aesthetics | Language | Ah-Ah-Ah | |
4104 | Aesthetics | Language | Ah Ah Ah | |
4105 | Aesthetics | Language | ah ah ah | |
1087 | Cultural Issues | (First level term) | Agriculture | |
1082 | Actions | (First level term) | Agricultural | |
1635 | Cultural Issues | Land-Use | Agricultural | |
4033 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Agricultural | |
5606 | Cultural Issues | Age | Agelessness | |
464 | Cultural Issues | (First level term) | Age | |
2663 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Agamemnon | |
1022 | Environment | Time of Day | Afternoon | |
2232 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Afterlife | |
3521 | Aesthetics | Narrative | African-American folk sayings | |
626 | Themes and Motifs | Community | African-American | |
305 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | African origins | |
690 | Aesthetics | Diction | African American vernacular dialect | |
3798 | Themes and Motifs | Art | African American music | |
2347 | Cultural Issues | Religion | African American |
Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB |
2796 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Africa | |
4099 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Affirmation |
Similar to the keyword for negation, but for when a text vaguely affirms or says yes about something. (Cf. Quentin saying "we did" and "yes Yes Yes yes" on 148-49 of SF.) JBP |
5401 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Aesthetic experience | |
897 | Cultural Issues | War | Aerial combat | |
1793 | Cultural Issues | Mass Media | Advertising | |
3201 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Advertising | |
597 | Relationships | Social | Adversarial | |
517 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Advent | |
1355 | Relationships | Marital | Adultery | |
858 | Relationships | Sexual | Adultery | |
2892 | Relationships | Friendship | Adult-child | |
5349 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Adult-adolescent |