Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
4022 Cultural Issues Clothes Store clothes
1843 Actions Work Store clerk
491 Environment Public Store
4889 Actions Movement Stopping
3783 Environment Place Stone wall
2597 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Stone
5746 Actions Physical Stomping
1740 Themes and Motifs Body Stomach/belly
2546 Cultural Issues War Stolen valor

Whenever someone claims to have fought in a war, but it is implied that he (always he) did not do so. This comes up quite a bit in Faulkner. JB
2217 Themes and Motifs Money Stolen
4484 Themes and Motifs Character stoic
4319 Cultural Issues Clothes Stockings
2119 Actions Economic Stock trading

Term for those who buy or sell "stock" - horses, mules, etc. -JBP
3068 Themes and Motifs Money Stingy with money
581 Environment Atmospheric Stillness
3418 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Stillness
710 Themes and Motifs Objects Still
2866 Environment Atmospheric Sterile
5311 Aesthetics Diction Stereotypical Jewish accent

Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB
1940 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype: teeth
837 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype: smell
991 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype sweat
4584 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype Superstitious
1499 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype mule
4566 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype lower intelligence
3939 Cultural Issues Gender Stereotype librarian / school teacher
872 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype eyes
1124 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype cannibalism
3647 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype black women's sexual promiscuity
3837 Relationships Familial Stepparent-child
3877 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Stencil
5511 Cultural Issues Technology Steamboats
5602 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Steamboat race
918 Themes and Motifs Objects Steamboat
2517 Actions Movement Steamboat
3533 Cultural Issues Technology Steam locomotive
1113 Actions Moral Stealing
5761 Cultural Issues Food Steak
1258 Cultural Issues Class Status, low
2059 Cultural Issues Materialism Status

Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers.
3139 Actions Verbal Stating intent to leave home / run away
3026 Cultural Issues Government State laws and regulations
5517 Cultural Issues Government State government
3004 Cultural Issues Government State capital
1898 Actions Bodily Starvation
3908 Actions Physical Starting over
5140 Actions Physical Starting fire
2221 Environment Natural Stars
4018 Environment Atmospheric Starlight
1072 Actions Bodily Staring
3399 Environment Olfactory Starch
4588 Actions Legal Standing guard
5136 Actions Bodily Standing
1413 Actions Physical Stalking
5708 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Stalin, Joseph
2610 Environment Domestic Space Stairway
1527 Themes and Motifs Objects Stained glass window
2319 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Stage manager
3056 Aesthetics Description Stage direction
4838 Environment Place Stable
1020 Environment Domestic Space Stable
5755 Themes and Motifs Community Stability

This particular term is in reference to The Hamlet where the Snopeses disrupt the natural order of things, but then the community of Frenchman's Bend returns to its old ways. It is a cycle of disruption and stability, where a return to normalcy is prized above all else. JB
2750 Actions Violent Stabbing
2881 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical St. Louis
1817 Actions Hunting Squirrel hunting
1809 Themes and Motifs Animals Squirrel
5120 Actions Physical Squatting
1604 Actions Bodily Squatting
1792 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Square brackets
5227 Environment Atmospheric Squalor
2283 Actions Perceptual Spying

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB
1822 Environment Natural Spring
551 Environment Time of Year Spring
2894 Environment Place Spring
1013 Relationships Marital Spousal privilege
1014 Cultural Issues Law Spousal privilege
4746 Themes and Motifs Death Spousal
2205 Actions Play Sports Golf
3591 Actions Play Sports Crew / rowing
731 Cultural Issues Clothes Sports
3840 Actions Play Sport-fencing
1487 Cultural Issues War Spoils
1917 Actions Movement Spitting
2288 Actions Bodily Spitting
4901 Environment Atmospheric Spiritual
1634 Cultural Issues Land-Use Spiritual
541 Cultural Issues Age Spinsterhood
5438 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Spenser, Edmund
2385 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Spell
2289 Cultural Issues Modernity Speed

Any time characters experience new speeds as a result of modernization. This could be speeds achieved by car, train, or flight, but also more abstract speeds like the speed of communication due to the telephone. The specific example is when Lucius Priest accidentally spits in his wife's face while motoring. JB
1755 Actions Verbal Speech

Any time someone give a speech, in this case Monk. JB
519 Actions Verbal Speculation
1234 Actions Mental Speculation
2234 Environment Atmospheric Spectral
4576 Actions Interaction, Social Spectate

Whenever a group of people are watching an event unfold. For example, when the soldiers watch Buck and Buddy play cards in the Unvanquished (50). JB
4023 Cultural Issues Clothes Spectacles
4592 Actions Communication Speaking
2960 Environment Place Speakeasy
3318 Themes and Motifs Animals Sparrow
4579 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Spanish-American War

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