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Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
5027 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Jenny arrives
5028 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Colonel Sartoris killed
5029 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Bayard avenges Johnny
5030 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Johnny Sartoris shot down
5031 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron robs bank
5032 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Young Bayard's death
5033 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Narcissa's anonymous letters
5034 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy accosts schoolgirl
5035 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Miss Quentin runs away
5036 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy's name changed
5037 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Texas horses auctioned
5038 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Burying Sartoris silver
5039 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Doom becomes chief
5040 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris builds railroad
5041 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Old Frenchman's arrival
5042 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes First settlers arrive
5043 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Indian removal
5044 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris raises regiment
5045 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris deposed
5046 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Battle of Jefferson
5047 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Etching name on window
5048 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Buck and Buddy's experiment
5049 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ringo whips Ab
5050 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Rider in jail
5051 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Nancy confronts white man
5052 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sutpen's arrival
5053 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Boon shoots Negro
5054 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes General Compson's military record
5055 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron Snopes' children
5056 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Architect captured
5057 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sutpen rejects KKK
5058 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate monument unveiled
5059 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Jefferson's first car
5060 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Flem and Eula marry
5061 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Looking upon evil
5062 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple leaves train
5063 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Driving to Goodwin's
5064 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple at Goodwin's
5065 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple at Reba's
5066 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Temple testifying
5067 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Popeye's execution
5068 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Henry kills Bon
5069 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes De Spain creates camp
5070 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Houston murdered
5071 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Eula's medallion unveiled
5072 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes McCarron ambushed
5073 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's wedding
5074 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's marriage ends
5075 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ikkemotubbe becomes "Doom"
5076 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Quentin's suicide
5077 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab's war wound
5078 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris escapes Yankees
5204 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy committed
5206 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Will Mayes lynched
5207 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compsons sell pasture
5208 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compson land acquired
5210 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Harriss' death
5211 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Mannie's death
5212 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Mannie Hait cashes check
5213 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate raid in Memphis
5215 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Flem reaches Jefferson
5217 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Narcissa marries Bayard
5218 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Bayard and the lost generation
5219 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Trying to kill Gualdres
5220 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Plantation to housing development
5611 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy castrated
5630 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash kills Sutpen
5631 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash charges posse
5632 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab Snopes at De Spain's house
5665 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Tommy's murder
609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Door
779 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Trying to say
785 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going to Texas
845 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sexual power
867 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gossip
873 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Upward mobility
875 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fire on the hearth
1024 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Twilight
1032 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gaze
1177 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Endurance
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
1256 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going fast
1259 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Tomorrow and tomorrow
1332 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Nothingness
1352 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Life as repetition
1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
1933 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sun / Sunlight
1948 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Threshold
1950 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Triumph
1982 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Belatedness
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
2023 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream
2030 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitude
2181 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Precognition / Something to happen

For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP
2183 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Destiny
2204 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Confederate monument
2310 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Performance
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion

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