Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
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
2799 Relationships Friendship Adult friends
5159 Relationships Familial Adoptive
923 Cultural Issues Age Adolescence
3370 Actions Communication Addressing for mail delivery
5348 Aesthetics Style Address to reader
1407 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Addiction
2695 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Adam

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