Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary |
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Term | Description |
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5270 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Suspended|Resumed | |
580 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Nickname | |
846 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Indian name | |
1166 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Named for historical figure | |
1210 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | False name | |
1417 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Renaming |
When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR |
1550 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Using Indians as names | |
1702 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Place name | |
1783 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Alias | |
1832 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Importance of naming |
When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP |
2411 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Promotional | |
2433 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Change over time | |
2684 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Child's name | |
2871 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Not knowing person or thing's name |
For occasions when a narrative draws attention to a character forgetting or not knowing the word or name of someone or something - Benjy being raised not to know his mother's name in Sound and Fury, for instance, or when Joe Christmas can't think at first of what it is he is eating until he remembers "It's peas." -JBP |
3060 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | And caste | |
3197 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Nicknames | |
3621 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Long name | |
3625 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | French noble names | |
4123 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Wrong name | |
4951 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Brand name | |
4952 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Commercial origins | |
5529 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | As tribute | |
497 | Actions | Movement | Wagon | |
499 | Actions | Movement | Car | |
553 | Actions | Movement | Flight | |
704 | Actions | Movement | Walking | |
834 | Actions | Movement | Return | |
841 | Actions | Movement | Following | |
928 | Actions | Movement | Boat | |
1017 | Actions | Movement | Driving | |
1039 | Actions | Movement | Crossing | |
1110 | Actions | Movement | Horse | |
1128 | Actions | Movement | Mule | |
1200 | Actions | Movement | Buggy | |
1230 | Actions | Movement | Riding | |
1246 | Actions | Movement | Carriage | |
1390 | Actions | Movement | Bus | |
1441 | Actions | Movement | Limping | |
1498 | Actions | Movement | Chasing | |
1601 | Actions | Movement | Running away | |
1707 | Actions | Movement | Constant | |
1738 | Actions | Movement | Random | |
1749 | Actions | Movement | Swimming | |
1763 | Actions | Movement | Train | |
1913 | Actions | Movement | Fetching | |
1914 | Actions | Movement | Running | |
1915 | Actions | Movement | Hiding | |
1917 | Actions | Movement | Spitting | |
1941 | Actions | Movement | Racing | |
2048 | Actions | Movement | Truck | |
2062 | Actions | Movement | Crash | |
2098 | Actions | Movement | Sneaking | |
2517 | Actions | Movement | Steamboat | |
2541 | Actions | Movement | Ox | |
2542 | Actions | Movement | Ferry | |
2550 | Actions | Movement | Surrey | |
2557 | Actions | Movement | Streetcar | |
2701 | Actions | Movement | Migration | |
2723 | Actions | Movement | Hot-air balloon | |
3339 | Actions | Movement | Hurrying | |
3489 | Actions | Movement | Marching | |
3607 | Actions | Movement | Matching / Paralleling | |
3651 | Actions | Movement | Direction east | |
3652 | Actions | Movement | Limousine | |
3735 | Actions | Movement | Interurban streetcar / trolley | |
4032 | Actions | Movement | Procession | |
4220 | Actions | Movement | Getting closer |
When someone's thoughts during a journey are focused on the place they're heading for, either with excitement or dread or something in between. SR |
4263 | Actions | Movement | Ambulance | |
4344 | Actions | Movement | Cart | |
4347 | Actions | Movement | Ship | |
4422 | Actions | Movement | Bicycle | |
4654 | Actions | Movement | Taxi | |
4793 | Actions | Movement | Traffic | |
4832 | Actions | Movement | Wrong direction | |
4889 | Actions | Movement | Stopping | |
5080 | Actions | Movement | Flat tire | |
5361 | Actions | Movement | Hitch-hiking | |
5432 | Actions | Movement | Aviation | |
5658 | Actions | Movement | Canoe | |
1137 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Justice |
When explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
1138 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Right |
As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
1161 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Responsibility | |
1245 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Injustice | |
1320 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Chivalry | |
1398 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Hypocrisy | |
1924 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Honor | |
2186 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Protest | |
2408 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Faith | |
3722 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Morality | |
3809 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Dishonor | |
4660 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Loyalty | |
531 | Actions | Moral | Defeat | |
623 | Actions | Moral | Prohibiting |
Here in the general sense of interdiction, forbidding, proscribing - rather than "prohibition," i.e. outlawing alcohol. JW |
648 | Actions | Moral | Legal surrender | |
649 | Actions | Moral | Confession | |
713 | Actions | Moral | Deception | |
1113 | Actions | Moral | Stealing | |
1208 | Actions | Moral | Lying | |
1753 | Actions | Moral | Grave-digging or -violating |
This is any time when someone is either digging a grave, or trying to disinter a body in a grave. I'm thinking of Mink moving Houston's body in The Hamlet and the Hound, but also Monk trying to dig up his grandmother in Monk. |
1922 | Actions | Moral | Renounce |