Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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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 | |
4668 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Note | |
4703 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Magazine | |
4709 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Christmas card | |
4799 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Death certificate | |
4815 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Cook book | |
4818 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Bible | |
4847 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Anthropological | |
4860 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Drawing | |
4871 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Translation | |
5004 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Poetry | |
5095 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Poster | |
5259 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Notice | |
5393 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Mottoes | |
521 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Past | |
633 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Watch | |
795 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Transcended | |
1549 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Travel back in time | |
1812 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Living in the present |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
1932 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Frozen / Static | |
1995 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Running out | |
2013 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Continuity |
Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB |
2051 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Future | |
2158 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Long passage of time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
2304 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Just in time |
Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB |
2527 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Town clock | |
2600 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Permanence |