Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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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 | |
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 | |
2337 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Doom | |
2343 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dead time | |
2366 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Imitation | |
2383 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Secret | |
2398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Eternal feminine | |
2453 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Searching | |
2474 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Hands in pockets | |
2511 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Chasing a person |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
2592 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitary | |
2607 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sound of a gunshot | |
2609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Touch | |
2622 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mediation |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
2625 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Echo | |
2626 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reality | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
2651 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fixation |
The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC |
2653 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Odor | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
2671 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream turns to dust | |
2876 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sleeping in same bed |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
2946 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Recovery | |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
3279 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Father said | |
3417 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vitality | |
3418 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Stillness | |
3539 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Thinking of home | |
3746 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sole owner and proprietor | |
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 |
4209 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apparition | |
4210 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vanishing | |
4216 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apotheosis | |
4236 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dark house | |
4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design |