Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
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
2254 Actions Moral Rationalization
2261 Actions Moral Exploitation
2282 Actions Moral Scheming

Any action that plots or plans to gain a material or social advantage over someone through immoral means. This is separate from economic scheming, which is often directly tied to a commercial situation. It is also not like deception, because the deception has not happened yet. The specific example is Boon "scheming" to take out the car, but there are other instances of characters ratiocinating or plotting to do so. JB
2394 Actions Moral Corrupting
2574 Actions Moral Secret

This is the action of keeping a secret or deciding whether or not to keep a secret. It is not necessarily good or bad, rather keeping a secret is a type of moral choice. Since, this is a singular secret and not a protracted secret, as for example Linda Snopes's parentage, this is placed under moral actions and not themes. JB
2650 Actions Moral Forgiveness
2706 Actions Moral Praying
2778 Actions Moral Blackmail
2893 Actions Moral Reform

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