Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
4131 Relationships Interracial Siblings
922 Relationships Familial Sister-sister
664 Relationships Social Snobbery
405 Relationships (First level term) Social
4969 Relationships Social Social organizations
3089 Relationships Marital Social respectability
1013 Relationships Marital Spousal privilege
3837 Relationships Familial Stepparent-child
4552 Relationships Marital Strife
5285 Relationships Familial Support|Neglect
1562 Relationships Familial Surrogate
741 Relationships Hierarchical Teacher-student
5112 Relationships Economical Trustee-ward
2417 Relationships Intergenerational Tutor-student
1953 Relationships Familial Twins
4159 Relationships Familial Uncertain relationship
496 Relationships Familial Uncle-nephew
2444 Relationships Intergenerational Uncle-nephew
2974 Relationships Familial Uncle-niece
2947 Relationships Romantic Unrequited
1334 Relationships Marital Vicarious wedding
4058 Relationships Marital Violence
2754 Relationships Civic Voting
3094 Relationships Marital Wedding
946 Relationships Interracial White-black
4285 Relationships Familial Widower
2704 Relationships Interspecies Woman-horse
1202 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes "Wait"

Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW
910 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Abandonment
2880 Themes and Motifs Time Abrupt shift in time

For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F.
1327 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence
617 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence as disguise

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR
1331 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence as loss
5275 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence as presence
4512 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence of sound
358 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Absence/Loss
2604 Themes and Motifs Meaning Absurdity
1689 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Accident
4419 Themes and Motifs Texts Accounts
517 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Advent
5401 Themes and Motifs Meaning Aesthetic experience
3798 Themes and Motifs Art African American music
626 Themes and Motifs Community African-American
2232 Themes and Motifs Death Afterlife
3214 Themes and Motifs Objects Air gun
3252 Themes and Motifs Objects Airplane
1459 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Alarm

This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB
1783 Themes and Motifs Naming Alias
2331 Themes and Motifs Community Alienation
4447 Themes and Motifs Exile Alienation from nature
3010 Themes and Motifs Animals Alligators
3448 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Aloneness

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
4747 Themes and Motifs Death Ambiguous circumstances
538 Themes and Motifs Character Ambitious
5519 Themes and Motifs Character Amoral
2236 Themes and Motifs Objects Anchovies
4741 Themes and Motifs Determinism And an animal
3060 Themes and Motifs Naming And caste
4950 Themes and Motifs Time And change
5377 Themes and Motifs Art And civilization
4428 Themes and Motifs Death And inheritance
3193 Themes and Motifs Past And monuments
2082 Themes and Motifs Death Animal bear
2073 Themes and Motifs Death Animal Dog
2910 Themes and Motifs Death Animal horse
4535 Themes and Motifs Death Animal mule
364 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Animals
4847 Themes and Motifs Texts Anthropological
2749 Themes and Motifs Time Anticipation
3099 Themes and Motifs Death Anticipation of death
1615 Themes and Motifs Objects Antlers
2379 Themes and Motifs Animals Ants
3455 Themes and Motifs Past Anxiety about|Resistance to change
4216 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Apotheosis
4209 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Apparition
1090 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Appearance
631 Themes and Motifs Body Appearance-plain
3738 Themes and Motifs Objects Apple tree
3145 Themes and Motifs Body Arm
1667 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival
2503 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
362 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Arrivals/Departures
363 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Art
2022 Themes and Motifs Character Artist
3444 Themes and Motifs Art Artistic creation
5231 Themes and Motifs Appearance As character
3059 Themes and Motifs Past As explanatory
3103 Themes and Motifs Money As motive
4513 Themes and Motifs Money As symbol

I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW
5529 Themes and Motifs Naming As tribute
2865 Themes and Motifs Character Assertive
4831 Themes and Motifs Home Attacked
2460 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Attempt to find substitute
1520 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Audience response
3312 Themes and Motifs Time Awareness of time
1247 Themes and Motifs Objects Ax
3112 Themes and Motifs Objects Baby bottle
1571 Themes and Motifs Values Bad conduct
4286 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Balance
3480 Themes and Motifs Appearance Baldness

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