Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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5232 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Risque | |
5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
641 | Aesthetics | Style | Neologism | |
966 | Aesthetics | Style | Character portrait | |
1267 | Aesthetics | Style | Unfinished sentence | |
1451 | Aesthetics | Style | Bricolage | |
1888 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence | |
1959 | Aesthetics | Style | Cubism | |
2507 | Aesthetics | Style | Present tense | |
3036 | Aesthetics | Style | Index | |
3037 | Aesthetics | Style | Long sentence passim | |
3510 | Aesthetics | Style | List | |
3538 | Aesthetics | Style | Numerous adjectives | |
5348 | Aesthetics | Style | Address to reader | |
1003 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Insight | |
1883 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Ghost | |
1947 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Place | |
2369 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Soul / Spirit | |
2373 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Telepathy | |
2382 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Phantom | |
2385 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Spell | |
2608 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunting | |
2612 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunted house | |
2613 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Sickness | |
2700 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Eternity | |
2877 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Signs / Omen | |
3133 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folklore | |
3134 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Superstitions | |
3246 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folk customs | |
5498 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Vision | |
1315 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Freudian | |
1323 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Shadows | |
1560 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Blood | |
1715 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Created by characters | |
1893 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Hamsa | |
2506 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Christian | |
2928 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Archetype |
I did not see archetype anywhere else in the keyword list, so I added it here under symbolism - for when a text refers to something clearly archetypal, like the tree in S&F. -JBP |
2981 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Theatrical | |
3106 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Reflection |
Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP |
3758 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Sexual symbol | |
4054 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Fire | |
4152 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Cleansing power of water | |
4821 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Impermanence | |
4882 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Shared humanity | |
4887 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Cage | |
4904 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Rebirth | |
5623 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Roman | |
5625 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Time | |
1450 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Elevator | |
1663 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Invention | |
1664 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Television | |
2279 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Telephone | |
2301 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Car | |
2528 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Electricity | |
2529 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Neon | |
3386 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Running water | |
3533 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Steam locomotive | |
3585 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Shipping tugboat | |
3586 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Shipping schooner | |
3590 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Ship's wheel | |
4026 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Automobile | |
4316 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Radio | |
4465 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Car tire | |
4533 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Typewriter | |
4639 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Public telephone | |
4708 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Streetcars | |
4924 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Printing | |
5235 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Cotton gin | |
5384 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Telegraph | |
5416 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Race |
Whenever someone has a different interaction with technology because of their race. This is usually a Black character who is ignorant of modernity. In this example, it is Job in "Uncle Willy" who doesn't know how to use a telephone. |
5499 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Appliance | |
5511 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Steamboats | |
5514 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Plastics | |
5542 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Atomic bomb | |
5545 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Construction equipment | |
5553 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Cadillac | |
5576 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Jaguar | |
5601 | Cultural Issues | Technology | Lighting |
For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP |
745 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Census | |
906 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Case file | |
1343 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letters | |
1678 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Civic records | |
1705 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letter of protest | |
1709 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Newspapers | |
1731 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Ledger | |
1998 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Deed | |
2721 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Love letter | |
3000 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Telegram | |
3023 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Military communications | |
3092 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Novel | |
3173 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Graffiti | |
4044 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Map | |
4045 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Plat | |
4051 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Citizenship papers | |
4132 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Title | |
4419 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Accounts | |
4441 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Epitaph | |
4572 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Will | |
4601 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Treaty | |
4650 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | School book |