Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
4746 Themes and Motifs Death Spousal
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
4886 Themes and Motifs Death Suspicious
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP
2270 Aesthetics Description Animate/Inanimate
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
5736 Aesthetics Description Color black
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze
3583 Aesthetics Description Color brown
3822 Aesthetics Description Color gray
3786 Aesthetics Description Color green
4075 Aesthetics Description Color lilac
4507 Aesthetics Description Color maroon
3584 Aesthetics Description Color of leaf tobacco
3961 Aesthetics Description Color pink
4508 Aesthetics Description Color purple
3144 Aesthetics Description Color red
3897 Aesthetics Description Color white
3873 Aesthetics Description Color yellow
3421 Aesthetics Description Delayed decoding

Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR
1204 Aesthetics Description Eyes
5243 Aesthetics Description Grotesque
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
4215 Aesthetics Description Location portrait
3056 Aesthetics Description Stage direction
1973 Aesthetics Description Tableau
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
4741 Themes and Motifs Determinism And an animal
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
5114 Themes and Motifs Determinism Gendered
4878 Themes and Motifs Determinism Genetic
1347 Themes and Motifs Determinism Lack of choice
4892 Themes and Motifs Determinism Vs human agency
3684 Aesthetics Diction "Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past

This could come under Style, too -- to capture when Faulkner uses simple words like "is" or "was" as synonyms for larger concepts of past or present. Added for Quentin, but could be used in As I Lay Dying too for Darl's rumination on the same. JBP
740 Aesthetics Diction Accent
690 Aesthetics Diction African American vernacular dialect
5624 Aesthetics Diction Derogatory socio-economic term
849 Aesthetics Diction Double entendre
3927 Aesthetics Diction Ethnic slur
1605 Aesthetics Diction Hill dialect
1804 Aesthetics Diction Imitation

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR
4034 Aesthetics Diction Malapropism
3305 Aesthetics Diction Misogynistic wording
1606 Aesthetics Diction Native American languages

I created this for "The Old People," 204.2, because the emphasis is on the "old tongue" that Sam Fathers speaks. LW
930 Aesthetics Diction Neologism

This keyword can be used for terms and words invented by Faulkner, including portmanteau words, hyphenated words (e.g., "ax-squared"), non-hyphenated words (e.g., "deathcolored"), onomatopoeic words, or other similar constructions. Not all hyphenated words would qualify as a neologism, such as "mud-caked" or "three-foot-high" which are too commonplace to qualify as neologisms. -CR
4899 Aesthetics Diction Northern dialect
705 Aesthetics Diction Racist term
979 Aesthetics Diction Rural vernacular
3871 Aesthetics Diction Southern dialect
5311 Aesthetics Diction Stereotypical Jewish accent

Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB
622 Aesthetics Diction Western vernacular
1111 Actions Domestic Camping
2501 Actions Domestic Care
1209 Actions Domestic Child care
4336 Actions Domestic Child-rearing
1205 Actions Domestic Cleaning
1125 Actions Domestic Cooking
1916 Actions Domestic Discipline
1236 Actions Domestic Feeding
2132 Actions Domestic Food preparation
1951 Actions Domestic Housekeeping
1770 Actions Domestic Knitting
2496 Actions Domestic Making a bed
5649 Actions Domestic Making coffee
5134 Actions Domestic Mending
1207 Actions Domestic Milking
1206 Actions Domestic Nursing
2292 Actions Domestic Packing
1515 Actions Domestic Polish
2495 Actions Domestic Setting the table
1213 Actions Domestic Sewing
1644 Actions Domestic Teaching
1189 Actions Domestic Washing
2984 Environment Domestic Space Apartment
525 Environment Domestic Space Architecture
831 Environment Domestic Space Attic
1008 Environment Domestic Space Backyard
2822 Environment Domestic Space Barn
2560 Environment Domestic Space Bathroom
778 Environment Domestic Space Bedroom
1371 Environment Domestic Space Boarding house
1403 Environment Domestic Space Cabin
2351 Environment Domestic Space Carriage house
2919 Environment Domestic Space Cellar
4031 Environment Domestic Space Chicken coop / hen house
4240 Environment Domestic Space Closet
3275 Environment Domestic Space College dormitory
2124 Environment Domestic Space Confined living quarters

Refers to when a text draws attention to the relative smallness or confined nature of where a character resides - a "single room twelve feet square," for example. -JBP
1918 Environment Domestic Space Deathbed
1796 Environment Domestic Space Dilapidation
977 Environment Domestic Space Dining room
3441 Environment Domestic Space Dollhouse
4377 Environment Domestic Space Drawing room
3110 Environment Domestic Space Dressing room
1506 Environment Domestic Space Drive
3150 Environment Domestic Space Empty room
4313 Environment Domestic Space Field
3763 Environment Domestic Space Fireplace|Mantel
1472 Environment Domestic Space Gallery

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