Keywords
Term ID |
Vocabulary![]() |
Parent | Term | Description |
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1998 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Deed | |
1999 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Loot | |
2003 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Teeth | |
2013 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Continuity |
Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB |
2019 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Nakedness | |
2020 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Forbearance | |
2021 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Windows | |
2022 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Artist | |
2023 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream | |
2024 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Ruthless | |
2025 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Vanity | |
2028 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Footprint | |
2030 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitude | |
2034 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chandlier | |
2036 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Oxen | |
2043 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Wolf | |
2051 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Future | |
2068 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Compass | |
2070 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Boat | |
2073 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal Dog | |
2075 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Portmanteau | |
2076 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Tarpaulin | |
2080 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Power | |
2082 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal bear | |
2083 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Posse | |
2084 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers | |
2088 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Swagger | |
2089 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of animal companion | |
2090 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Cosmetics | |
2092 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Conscience | |
2093 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pine knots | |
2094 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving home | |
2100 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Nose | |
2104 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Unruliness | |
2108 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Resolve | |
2110 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Thimble | |
2112 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Forgetting | |
2113 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Playfulness | |
2117 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Guitar | |
2121 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Owed |
This keyword is for when a character claims or otherwise believes he or she is owed money (to repay a debt, as payment for labor, etc.). -JBP |
2145 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Scar | |
2150 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Stove | |
2151 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dolls | |
2152 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Refund | |
2158 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Long passage of time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
2161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Eyeglasses | |
2172 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Faithfulness |
Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP |
2181 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Precognition / Something to happen |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
2183 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Destiny | |
2186 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Protest | |
2193 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Piano | |
2195 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Propriety | |
2196 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Damask | |
2197 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Porcelain | |
2198 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Candelabra | |
2200 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Collecting money |
Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP |
2204 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Confederate monument | |
2206 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Learning disability | |
2208 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flag | |
2216 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Lost | |
2217 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stolen | |
2220 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Nail | |
2223 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Scruffiness | |
2229 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Murder | |
2232 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Afterlife | |
2235 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Recklessness | |
2236 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Anchovies | |
2237 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Collective memory | |
2249 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Magnet | |
2251 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Pigs | |
2257 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Deathbed | |
2258 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Opportunism | |
2265 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Burial | |
2266 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Comforter | |
2269 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fish | |
2271 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Movement | |
2272 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Luck | |
2296 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Virtue | |
2304 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Just in time |
Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB |
2308 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Regal | |
2310 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Performance | |
2314 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Illusion | |
2322 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Beautiful/handsome | |
2331 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Alienation | |
2332 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Personality change | |
2333 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hammer | |
2334 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Integrity | |
2337 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Doom | |
2340 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chamber pot | |
2342 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Keys | |
2343 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dead time | |
2353 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Innocence | |
2358 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Sophistication | |
2359 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Barbarism | |
2360 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Unconscious | |
2366 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Imitation | |
2368 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Provincialism | |
2369 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Soul / Spirit | |
2373 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Telepathy | |
2377 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Objet d'art |