Keywords
Term ID |
Vocabulary![]() |
Parent | Term | Description |
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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 | |
1825 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ballot Box | |
2359 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Barbarism | |
739 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bargainer | |
1823 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Basket | |
3263 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bats | |
734 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bear | |
2322 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Beautiful/handsome | |
3994 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Beavers | |
3276 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bed | |
3166 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being in time |
Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP |
3294 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being late / tardiness | |
3293 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being on time / punctuality | |
3167 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being outside of time | |
1982 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Belatedness | |
4374 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Belonging | |
3850 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Beyond |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
1388 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bible | |
4818 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Bible | |
3674 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Bill | |
1393 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Birds | |
3011 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bison | |
3880 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Blackguard | |
3416 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Blame | |
680 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Blood | |
4509 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bluejays | |
2070 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Boat | |
365 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Body |