Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
4909 Environment Atmospheric Meteor shower
603 Environment Atmospheric Moonlit
917 Environment Atmospheric Night
4007 Environment Atmospheric Oppressive
5099 Environment Atmospheric Peaceful
4664 Environment Atmospheric Racialized
4649 Environment Atmospheric Sexual
2234 Environment Atmospheric Spectral
4901 Environment Atmospheric Spiritual
5227 Environment Atmospheric Squalor
4018 Environment Atmospheric Starlight
2866 Environment Atmospheric Sterile
581 Environment Atmospheric Stillness
3689 Environment Atmospheric Streetlamp
2099 Environment Atmospheric Sunlight
1943 Environment Atmospheric Thunder
5594 Environment Atmospheric Torch-light
3595 Environment Atmospheric Twinkling
4183 Environment Atmospheric Unfamiliar place

When the action of a story takes someone into a place they've never been before, for example the "strange country" that the chase of the deer reaches in "Race at Morning" (301).
3984 Environment Atmospheric Wetness
883 Environment Atmospheric Wind
3798 Themes and Motifs Art African American music
5377 Themes and Motifs Art And civilization
3444 Themes and Motifs Art Artistic creation
3272 Themes and Motifs Art Christian art or iconography
5635 Themes and Motifs Art Classical Greek
4720 Themes and Motifs Art Classical music
4437 Themes and Motifs Art Jazz music
4670 Themes and Motifs Art Lithographs
1934 Themes and Motifs Art Music
2377 Themes and Motifs Art Objet d'art
1544 Themes and Motifs Art Painting
3737 Themes and Motifs Art Photograph
1897 Themes and Motifs Art Poetry
761 Themes and Motifs Art Power of
729 Themes and Motifs Art Sculpture
517 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Advent
1459 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Alarm

This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB
1667 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival
2503 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
2515 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Departing Yoknapatawpha

For characters who leave Yoknapatawpha once and for all in a text - like Bayard Sartoris at the end of Flags in the Dust or Sarty Snopes in "Barn Burning." SR
1242 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Departure
903 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Desertion-family
989 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Jailbreak
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2094 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving home
852 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Mysterious
995 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Relocation
576 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return
4693 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return from war
1280 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return home
4198 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Return to Yoknapatawpha
787 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Run away
573 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Secrecy

This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR
5291 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Showing up
2998 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Slipping out at night

I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP
5231 Themes and Motifs Appearance As character
3480 Themes and Motifs Appearance Baldness
2322 Themes and Motifs Appearance Beautiful/handsome
1243 Themes and Motifs Appearance Complexion
3522 Themes and Motifs Appearance Condition of heaviness
2090 Themes and Motifs Appearance Cosmetics
3845 Themes and Motifs Appearance Depth / deepness
3913 Themes and Motifs Appearance Diminishment / fading
3605 Themes and Motifs Appearance Dirty
3942 Themes and Motifs Appearance Fatness / obesity
4434 Themes and Motifs Appearance Feminine
3976 Themes and Motifs Appearance Hair pigtails
1609 Themes and Motifs Appearance Inscrutable

I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW
3978 Themes and Motifs Appearance Invisibility
3920 Themes and Motifs Appearance Librarian look
2019 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nakedness
4197 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nondescript
1613 Themes and Motifs Appearance Perspective

I added this for "The Old People," 206.5, to describe how the narrator sees Sam Fathers growing smaller and smaller as the hunting party leaves him behind. I don't really like the term that I chose but I couldn't think of anything else. LW
3762 Themes and Motifs Appearance Pretending / Feigning
4242 Themes and Motifs Appearance Racialized
4801 Themes and Motifs Appearance Red necks
2223 Themes and Motifs Appearance Scruffiness
1938 Themes and Motifs Appearance Similarity
3844 Themes and Motifs Appearance Surface
3476 Themes and Motifs Appearance Ugliness
3010 Themes and Motifs Animals Alligators
2379 Themes and Motifs Animals Ants
3263 Themes and Motifs Animals Bats
734 Themes and Motifs Animals Bear
3994 Themes and Motifs Animals Beavers
1393 Themes and Motifs Animals Birds
3011 Themes and Motifs Animals Bison
4509 Themes and Motifs Animals Bluejays
1260 Themes and Motifs Animals Bugs
2467 Themes and Motifs Animals Bumble-bee
2909 Themes and Motifs Animals Buzzards
2722 Themes and Motifs Animals Cats
593 Themes and Motifs Animals Cattle
1739 Themes and Motifs Animals Chickens/roosters
1221 Themes and Motifs Animals Cicadas
2473 Themes and Motifs Animals Cows
2486 Themes and Motifs Animals Crickets
730 Themes and Motifs Animals Deer
4008 Themes and Motifs Animals Dog-fox

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