Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
977 Environment Domestic Space Dining room
3441 Environment Domestic Space Dollhouse
4377 Environment Domestic Space Drawing room
3110 Environment Domestic Space Dressing room
1506 Environment Domestic Space Drive
3150 Environment Domestic Space Empty room
4313 Environment Domestic Space Field
3763 Environment Domestic Space Fireplace|Mantel
1472 Environment Domestic Space Gallery
2281 Environment Domestic Space Garage

Any structure used for the storage of a motor vehicle. In The Reivers this is continuously referred to as the "carriage house", but since it is now an automobile that it houses, I am calling it a garage. This might be more useful for scholars than carriage house. JB
1475 Environment Domestic Space Garden
1019 Environment Domestic Space Gate
654 Environment Domestic Space Gender stereotype
1476 Environment Domestic Space Hall
1501 Environment Domestic Space Hearth
3985 Environment Domestic Space Hogwallow
832 Environment Domestic Space Home
4902 Environment Domestic Space House
3962 Environment Domestic Space Immigrant neighborhood
578 Environment Domestic Space Kitchen
2935 Environment Domestic Space Ladies parlor
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
789 Environment Domestic Space Library
4773 Environment Domestic Space Livestock pen
2548 Environment Domestic Space Loft
1181 Environment Domestic Space Log house
2760 Environment Domestic Space Log yard
1488 Environment Domestic Space Lot
2949 Environment Domestic Space Office
1462 Environment Domestic Space Outhouse
3380 Environment Domestic Space Paddock
1514 Environment Domestic Space Parlor
1512 Environment Domestic Space Pasture
748 Environment Domestic Space Plantation house
920 Environment Domestic Space Porch
994 Environment Domestic Space Race
984 Environment Domestic Space Racial confusion
4526 Environment Domestic Space Ritual
2875 Environment Domestic Space Servants' home

For when a text draws attention to the home of a servant (not necessarily a slave quarter) - the servants' homes in "The Sound and the Fury," for instance, or maybe in "The Unvanquished." -JBP
3153 Environment Domestic Space Sick room

Added to denote a room being used or described as for when someone is sick. Added to refer to the "empty" room that is also where the family "has the measles" in S&F, but can be applied in other texts as well -- Addie's room in AILD, for example. -JBP
1987 Environment Domestic Space Sitting room
1020 Environment Domestic Space Stable
2610 Environment Domestic Space Stairway
5124 Environment Domestic Space Study
1474 Environment Domestic Space Summer house
688 Environment Domestic Space Supper table
1461 Environment Domestic Space Upstairs
770 Environment Domestic Space Veranda
1025 Environment Domestic Space Yard
1111 Actions Domestic Camping
2501 Actions Domestic Care
1209 Actions Domestic Child care
4336 Actions Domestic Child-rearing
1205 Actions Domestic Cleaning
1125 Actions Domestic Cooking
1916 Actions Domestic Discipline
1236 Actions Domestic Feeding
2132 Actions Domestic Food preparation
1951 Actions Domestic Housekeeping
1770 Actions Domestic Knitting
2496 Actions Domestic Making a bed
5649 Actions Domestic Making coffee
5134 Actions Domestic Mending
1207 Actions Domestic Milking
1206 Actions Domestic Nursing
2292 Actions Domestic Packing
1515 Actions Domestic Polish
2495 Actions Domestic Setting the table
1213 Actions Domestic Sewing
1644 Actions Domestic Teaching
1189 Actions Domestic Washing
3684 Aesthetics Diction "Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past

This could come under Style, too -- to capture when Faulkner uses simple words like "is" or "was" as synonyms for larger concepts of past or present. Added for Quentin, but could be used in As I Lay Dying too for Darl's rumination on the same. JBP
740 Aesthetics Diction Accent
690 Aesthetics Diction African American vernacular dialect
5624 Aesthetics Diction Derogatory socio-economic term
849 Aesthetics Diction Double entendre
3927 Aesthetics Diction Ethnic slur
1605 Aesthetics Diction Hill dialect
1804 Aesthetics Diction Imitation

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR
4034 Aesthetics Diction Malapropism
3305 Aesthetics Diction Misogynistic wording
1606 Aesthetics Diction Native American languages

I created this for "The Old People," 204.2, because the emphasis is on the "old tongue" that Sam Fathers speaks. LW
930 Aesthetics Diction Neologism

This keyword can be used for terms and words invented by Faulkner, including portmanteau words, hyphenated words (e.g., "ax-squared"), non-hyphenated words (e.g., "deathcolored"), onomatopoeic words, or other similar constructions. Not all hyphenated words would qualify as a neologism, such as "mud-caked" or "three-foot-high" which are too commonplace to qualify as neologisms. -CR
4899 Aesthetics Diction Northern dialect
705 Aesthetics Diction Racist term
979 Aesthetics Diction Rural vernacular
3871 Aesthetics Diction Southern dialect
5311 Aesthetics Diction Stereotypical Jewish accent

Whenever the text imitates a Jewish accent. JHB
622 Aesthetics Diction Western vernacular
4741 Themes and Motifs Determinism And an animal
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
5114 Themes and Motifs Determinism Gendered
4878 Themes and Motifs Determinism Genetic
1347 Themes and Motifs Determinism Lack of choice
4892 Themes and Motifs Determinism Vs human agency
2270 Aesthetics Description Animate/Inanimate
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
5736 Aesthetics Description Color black
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze

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