Keywords
| Term ID | Vocabulary |
Parent |
Term | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4443 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Chess | |
| 3903 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Chess imagery stalemate | |
| 1991 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Clay | |
| 3847 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Clean flame | |
| 3372 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Cloud | |
| 4072 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Coal dust | |
| 4093 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Coupled | |
| 2670 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Creditor | |
| 3516 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Death / Dead imagery | |
| 4446 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Dehumanizing |
Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary. |
| 2374 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Desert island | |
| 1902 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Disease | |
| 3511 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Drained marsh | |
| 3759 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Drama / Theatre imagery | |
| 2032 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Electricity | |
| 3912 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Embroidery | |
| 760 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Exoticism | |
| 2287 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Expression |
Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB |
| 915 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Eyes | |
| 1545 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Face | |
| 3692 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fertilise / Fertility imagery | |
| 3872 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fire | |
| 2621 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fish | |
| 1533 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Flag | |
| 3299 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Flood imagery | |
| 4373 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Food and drink imagery | |
| 4348 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Gambling imagery | |
| 3587 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Ghost | |
| 3558 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Glass | |
| 4030 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Glove | |
| 3512 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Gull | |
| 1484 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Harvest | |
| 3679 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Hunting metaphor / imagery | |
| 932 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Hyperbole | |
| 3577 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Invisible wire | |
| 4139 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Island of silence | |
| 2668 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Jackal | |
| 3608 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | King and/or queen | |
| 4101 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Locked | |
| 2596 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Loom | |
| 679 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Mask | |
| 2397 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Medical / Surgical | |
| 1030 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Metaphor | |
| 2130 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Metonym | |
| 2329 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Military analogy | |
| 2156 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Military terminology | |
| 2634 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Mirage | |
| 4142 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Mirror | |
| 495 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Monument | |
| 2336 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Moth | |
| 4207 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Musical imagery | |
| 4190 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Native American | |
| 1116 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Negation |
This is the term for when the narrative suggests an image or action, but only in the act of denying it: "He was not crying." EP |
| 4097 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Old maid | |
| 1892 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Oxymoron | |
| 4076 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Paint | |
| 3769 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Parrot | |
| 1423 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pathetic fallacy | |
| 3875 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pencil | |
| 527 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | People compared to animals | |
| 3954 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Periodical filth | |
| 1981 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Personification | |
| 2393 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Photography | |
| 2647 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pilgrim | |
| 3609 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Planets | |
| 2392 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Planting | |
| 3724 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Poisoned | |
| 3654 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Puppy | |
| 3534 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rabbit | |
| 2091 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rain | |
| 2632 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rape | |
| 4114 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rats | |
| 1939 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Replica | |
| 2635 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Ripple | |
| 2328 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Sacrifice | |
| 2601 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scarecrow | |
| 2140 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scientific |
To be used for figures of speech drawn from science (for example, references to osmosis, astronomy, or Darwinian evolution) - CR |
| 2599 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scratch | |
| 2666 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scythe | |
| 2095 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Seed | |
| 666 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Shadow | |
| 3604 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Sheep | |
| 2636 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Shell | |
| 608 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Simile | |
| 682 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Simile-mask | |
| 1903 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Skeleton | |
| 2595 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Skull | |
| 4027 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Slot machine | |
| 4960 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Space program | |
| 2319 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stage manager | |
| 3877 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stencil | |
| 2597 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stone | |
| 3741 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Swallows | |
| 4090 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Swine | |
| 3151 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Synesthesia |
For when description in a text merges sensory perceptions. Added for when Benjy in S&F describes "hearing it getting night ... hearing it getting dark." -JBP |
| 2367 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Talisman | |
| 4189 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Technological imagery | |
| 3874 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Threads | |
| 2345 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Thunderclap | |
| 1547 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Tomb |