Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
3430 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Venice
5251 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Venus
4170 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Vernacular
1279 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Vestal
3636 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Vicksburg
4813 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vicksburg
3787 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Violent in figurative sense

For when a text uses "violent" in a figurative sense for things not actually violent -- violent fecundity, for instance, or "cheap violent blues" of someone's clothing. JBP
4494 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Virgil
4560 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Virginia
1886 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Voice
4729 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Voltaire
5118 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vymy Ridge
3282 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Wagner, Richard
2833 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Wall Street
5689 Aesthetics Genre Conventions War story
3235 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Warsaw
5631 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash charges posse
5630 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash kills Sutpen
5254 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Washington Irving
5715 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Washington, Booker T.
2680 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Washington, D.C.
1123 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Washington, George
627 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Water
4372 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Weaponry imagery
5313 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Weber, Joe

Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
5367 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical West Point
622 Aesthetics Diction Western vernacular
2811 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical White Citizens' Council
3818 Aesthetics Language WhoOoooo
3819 Aesthetics Language WhoOooooooooooooooo
4102 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Wild breath
3053 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Wilde, Oscar
4936 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Wilkinson, James
5206 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Will Mayes lynched
3250 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Wilson, Woodrow
1639 Aesthetics Narrative Withholding
3704 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U.
2318 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Woodpile
5479 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Wzlewski
2962 Aesthetics Language Yah-yah-yah
4945 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Year 1860
5081 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Year 1861
4103 Aesthetics Language yes Yes Yes yes
5325 Aesthetics Language YIPPPEEE
5370 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Yoknapatawpha as mythic Greece
5032 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Young Bayard's death
5579 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Zodiac
5614 Cultural Issues History 1860 Election of Lincoln
302 Cultural Issues Slavery AANoSecondTerm
905 Cultural Issues Government Abdication
317 Cultural Issues Slavery Abolition
983 Cultural Issues Land-Use Aboriginal
3420 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Abortion
4597 Cultural Issues Alcohol Abstinence
3374 Cultural Issues Law Abuse of office
5089 Cultural Issues Education Academia
1372 Cultural Issues Violence Accident
548 Cultural Issues Law Acquittal
1407 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Addiction
923 Cultural Issues Age Adolescence
5349 Cultural Issues Sexuality Adult-adolescent
1793 Cultural Issues Mass Media Advertising
3201 Cultural Issues Economy Advertising
897 Cultural Issues War Aerial combat
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
305 Cultural Issues Slavery African origins
464 Cultural Issues (First level term) Age
5606 Cultural Issues Age Agelessness
1635 Cultural Issues Land-Use Agricultural
4033 Cultural Issues Progress Agricultural
1087 Cultural Issues (First level term) Agriculture
3035 Cultural Issues Progress Air travel
465 Cultural Issues (First level term) Alcohol
3915 Cultural Issues Alcohol Alcoholism
1778 Cultural Issues Law Alibi
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.
2872 Cultural Issues Gender All-male space
4065 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Alter ego / other self
1693 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Ambiguous
635 Cultural Issues Class Ambition
3192 Cultural Issues Violence Ambush
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
1730 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity America and opportunity
3096 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural America vs Europe
1257 Cultural Issues Nationality American
3195 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity American
3345 Cultural Issues History American historical myths
1711 Cultural Issues War American Revolution
2423 Cultural Issues History American Revolution
3359 Cultural Issues Materialism Americana
3257 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Amputation
1479 Cultural Issues Religion Amulet
3258 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Anaesthetic
5397 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Ancestral
5587 Cultural Issues Clothes And age
4426 Cultural Issues Clothes And class
4857 Cultural Issues Religion And class
5011 Cultural Issues Clothes And gender
5551 Cultural Issues Identity, Cultural And gender

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