Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
2506 Aesthetics Symbolism Christian
4152 Aesthetics Symbolism Cleansing power of water
1715 Aesthetics Symbolism Created by characters
4054 Aesthetics Symbolism Fire
1315 Aesthetics Symbolism Freudian
1893 Aesthetics Symbolism Hamsa
4821 Aesthetics Symbolism Impermanence
4904 Aesthetics Symbolism Rebirth
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

5623 Aesthetics Symbolism Roman
3758 Aesthetics Symbolism Sexual symbol
1323 Aesthetics Symbolism Shadows
4882 Aesthetics Symbolism Shared humanity
2981 Aesthetics Symbolism Theatrical
5625 Aesthetics Symbolism Time
2700 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Eternity
3246 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Folk customs
3133 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Folklore
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
2612 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunted house
2608 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunting
1003 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Insight
2382 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Phantom
1947 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Place
2613 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Sickness
2877 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Signs / Omen
2369 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Soul / Spirit
2385 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Spell
3134 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Superstitions
2373 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Telepathy
5498 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Vision
5348 Aesthetics Style Address to reader
1451 Aesthetics Style Bricolage
966 Aesthetics Style Character portrait
1959 Aesthetics Style Cubism
3036 Aesthetics Style Index
3510 Aesthetics Style List
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
3037 Aesthetics Style Long sentence passim
641 Aesthetics Style Neologism
3538 Aesthetics Style Numerous adjectives
2507 Aesthetics Style Present tense
1267 Aesthetics Style Unfinished sentence
1520 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Audience response
3062 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Collaborative
571 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Communal mythology
5226 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Deadpan
4918 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Explaining
5613 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Gestures
4919 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Hunting
1671 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Old days
1806 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Reminiscence
4127 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Retelling
5232 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Risque
1131 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Story-telling passim
597 Relationships Social Adversarial
1140 Relationships Social Assailant-victim
3895 Relationships Social Club
759 Relationships Social Conflict
4865 Relationships Social Coworker
3304 Relationships Social Crowds
1831 Relationships Social Fame
3764 Relationships Social Fellow alumni of a college or university
4961 Relationships Social Gang
3302 Relationships Social Homoerotic
1418 Relationships Social Homosocial
547 Relationships Social Homosocial rivalry
1420 Relationships Social Isolation

This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR
Also used this term when a person intentionally isolates him/herself from the larger community. JJ

1263 Relationships Social Mentorship
752 Relationships Social Neighbor
828 Relationships Social Paternalism
664 Relationships Social Snobbery
4969 Relationships Social Social organizations
302 Cultural Issues Slavery AANoSecondTerm
317 Cultural Issues Slavery Abolition
305 Cultural Issues Slavery African origins
328 Cultural Issues Slavery Amelioration

To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR

3178 Cultural Issues Slavery And progress
5564 Cultural Issues Slavery As cause of Civil War
303 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical analogy
293 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical curse
288 Cultural Issues Slavery Big house vs quarters
5609 Cultural Issues Slavery Buying slaves
292 Cultural Issues Slavery Civil War
287 Cultural Issues Slavery Commodity
309 Cultural Issues Slavery Concubinage
2446 Cultural Issues Slavery Courtship
326 Cultural Issues Slavery Curse
320 Cultural Issues Slavery Demographics

For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR

314 Cultural Issues Slavery Discipline

For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR

274 Cultural Issues Slavery Domestic labor
330 Cultural Issues Slavery Emancipation
291 Cultural Issues Slavery Etiquette
299 Cultural Issues Slavery Evil
313 Cultural Issues Slavery Family
307 Cultural Issues Slavery Field slaves vs house slaves
280 Cultural Issues Slavery Forced migration
315 Cultural Issues Slavery Freedom
283 Cultural Issues Slavery Fugitive
3743 Cultural Issues Slavery Galley slave

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