Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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5681 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Kettle | |
2342 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Keys | |
2454 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Keys | |
4905 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Killing first deer/marked with blood | |
3917 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Killing oneself slowly | |
1141 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Kinlessness |
I chose this term because it includes orphanhood but isn't limited to it. JW |
3573 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Knee | |
1395 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | knife | |
4136 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Knowledge | |
1347 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Lack of choice | |
4642 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Lacking | |
3971 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ladder | |
3506 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Lamp or lantern | |
4483 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Laughter as sign of madness | |
2681 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Lawnmower | |
2683 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Laziness | |
2206 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Learning disability | |
2656 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving | |
2094 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving home | |
1731 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Ledger | |
4933 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Left for dead | |
3992 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Legs | |
788 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Letter | |
1705 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letter of protest | |
1343 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letters | |
1695 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Liberty | |
3920 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Librarian look | |
5597 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | License Plate | |
1352 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Life as repetition | |
1222 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Lightning bugs | |
3303 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Like death | |
3419 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Liminal |
For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP |
3833 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Limitations of words / language | |
2795 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Lion | |
3990 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Lips | |
4670 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Lithographs | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
1968 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Livestock | |
1812 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Living in the present |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
3382 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Local legends |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
2455 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Locks | |
3621 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Long name | |
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 |
3270 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Longing for death | |
1999 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Loot | |
3826 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Losing vs never having |
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP |
2089 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of animal companion | |
3132 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of innocence | |
2450 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of object | |
2216 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Lost | |
4368 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Lost time | |
1583 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Love | |
2721 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Love letter | |
510 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Loyalty | |
4660 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Loyalty | |
2272 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Luck | |
3700 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Luggage | |
1454 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Luxury | |
2717 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Machine gun | |
1310 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Madness | |
4703 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Magazine | |
5139 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Magazine | |
2249 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Magnet | |
3589 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Male body | |
1807 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Manipulation | |
4044 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Map | |
4767 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Map | |
2518 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Marble columns | |
4278 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Matchstick | |
871 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Material | |
4457 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maternity | |
1107 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Maturity | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
4289 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maybe as concept | |
381 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Meaning | |
5407 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Meaning of | |
2378 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Meaninglessness | |
3515 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Measuring time | |
2718 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Medal | |
2622 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mediation |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
460 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Memory | |
805 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Men | |
4339 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mental disability | |
4118 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Metal detector | |
1324 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Metaphorical elephant | |
3509 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Metaphysics | |
4666 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mice | |
3023 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Military communications | |
3188 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Military defeat | |
4626 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Military equipment | |
2497 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Milk | |
2629 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Mirror | |
3160 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Misinterpretation | |
5154 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Misogyny | |
4148 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Missing | |
3245 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mockingbird | |
2790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Moment of | |
382 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Money | |
4477 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Money order | |
1282 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Money|Wealth |