Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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689 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking | |
3497 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking away | |
3955 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking back | |
1563 | Actions | Perceptual | Misreading | |
4160 | Actions | Perceptual | Moment of vision |
For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR |
1363 | Actions | Perceptual | Nosiness | |
4191 | Actions | Perceptual | Observing | |
1383 | Actions | Perceptual | Overhearing | |
3532 | Actions | Perceptual | Passing from sight | |
1338 | Actions | Perceptual | Professional surveillance | |
2176 | Actions | Perceptual | Reading / Researching | |
936 | Actions | Perceptual | Seeing | |
3570 | Actions | Perceptual | Sensing | |
3213 | Actions | Perceptual | Sensing the past | |
498 | Actions | Perceptual | Smelling | |
2283 | Actions | Perceptual | Spying |
Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB |
1302 | Actions | Perceptual | Strip searching | |
1300 | Actions | Perceptual | Surveillance | |
3993 | Actions | Perceptual | Sweetness | |
2921 | Actions | Perceptual | Tasting | |
2922 | Actions | Perceptual | Tickling | |
2067 | Actions | Perceptual | Unknowable |
This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP |
552 | Actions | Perceptual | Voyeurism | |
1726 | Actions | Perceptual | Watching | |
536 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Ethics | |
2402 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Evolution | |
3350 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Existentialism | |
1006 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Freedom | |
5559 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Freedom of choice | |
3520 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Human experience | |
1159 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Human nature | |
4258 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Individualism |
Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP |
3878 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Infinity | |
533 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Justice | |
2272 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Luck | |
3509 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Metaphysics | |
2271 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Movement | |
2969 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Nihilism | |
712 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Power of literature | |
3886 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Progenitive / Self-reproductive | |
3125 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Redemption | |
3902 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Reduction / summing up | |
3124 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Salvation | |
1223 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Suffering | |
3905 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Tedious / tedium | |
3832 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Unnatural / Contrary to nature | |
898 | Actions | Physical | Ambush | |
1251 | Actions | Physical | Apprehending | |
2813 | Actions | Physical | Bathing | |
4855 | Actions | Physical | Being pursued | |
5186 | Actions | Physical | Breaking | |
1865 | Actions | Physical | Building | |
1240 | Actions | Physical | Burial | |
2870 | Actions | Physical | Burning | |
4661 | Actions | Physical | Camping | |
3930 | Actions | Physical | Capture | |
1952 | Actions | Physical | Carrying | |
3931 | Actions | Physical | Chase | |
1059 | Actions | Physical | Chopping wood | |
2755 | Actions | Physical | Clearing land | |
3970 | Actions | Physical | Climbing | |
3140 | Actions | Physical | Climbing stairs | |
1164 | Actions | Physical | Climbing tree | |
5168 | Actions | Physical | Climbing/descending rope | |
5142 | Actions | Physical | Concealing | |
3154 | Actions | Physical | Confining | |
1118 | Actions | Physical | Cooking | |
2250 | Actions | Physical | Crawling | |
4727 | Actions | Physical | Crowding | |
3802 | Actions | Physical | Cuddling | |
1511 | Actions | Physical | Curtsy | |
5135 | Actions | Physical | Cutting | |
2131 | Actions | Physical | Dancing | |
2477 | Actions | Physical | Delivering | |
1493 | Actions | Physical | Digging | |
2128 | Actions | Physical | Discovering |
For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP |
4304 | Actions | Physical | Dragging | |
2727 | Actions | Physical | Drawing | |
1880 | Actions | Physical | Dreaming | |
1376 | Actions | Physical | Dressing | |
3338 | Actions | Physical | Driving | |
1867 | Actions | Physical | Eating | |
2977 | Actions | Physical | Embrace / hugging | |
5167 | Actions | Physical | Emptying | |
3041 | Actions | Physical | Escape from confinement | |
3909 | Actions | Physical | Escaping | |
3778 | Actions | Physical | Evasion | |
4251 | Actions | Physical | Extinguishing fire | |
4607 | Actions | Physical | Fasting | |
2127 | Actions | Physical | Finding |
For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP |
2162 | Actions | Physical | Freeing | |
2789 | Actions | Physical | Gardening | |
2759 | Actions | Physical | Getting water | |
1816 | Actions | Physical | Hammering | |
835 | Actions | Physical | Hanging | |
839 | Actions | Physical | Hiding | |
1250 | Actions | Physical | Hitting | |
2753 | Actions | Physical | Holding | |
3329 | Actions | Physical | Inaction / Not doing something | |
2159 | Actions | Physical | Intrusion |