Keywords

Term IDsort descending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
2633 Cultural Issues War Return from war
2634 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Mirage
2635 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ripple
2636 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Shell
2637 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Camelot
2638 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Carcassonne
2639 Cultural Issues Race Riots
2640 Cultural Issues Race Ku Klux Klan
2641 Actions Verbal Marriage proposal
2642 Actions Work Sharpening
2643 Themes and Motifs Objects Hoe
2644 Themes and Motifs Body Hand / Palm
2645 Themes and Motifs Objects Ring
2646 Actions Mental Submission / Acquiescence
2647 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Pilgrim
2648 Themes and Motifs Character Principle
2649 Themes and Motifs Character Reputation
2650 Actions Moral Forgiveness
2651 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fixation

The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC
2652 Cultural Issues Violence Language

To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC
2653 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Odor
2654 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Coma
2655 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Guinevere
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2657 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Hamlet
2658 Cultural Issues Clothes Reticule
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
2660 Aesthetics Tone Shift
2661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lee, Robert Edward
2662 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Davis, Jefferson
2663 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Agamemnon
2664 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Pyramus and Thisbe
2665 Cultural Issues War Draft evasion / Draft dodging
2666 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Scythe
2667 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Beelzebub
2668 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Jackal
2669 Cultural Issues History Dispossessing Indians
2670 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Creditor
2671 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
2672 Actions Verbal Haggling
2673 Cultural Issues Food Bread
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
2675 Cultural Issues Clothes Ribbons
2676 Themes and Motifs Objects Jug
2677 Themes and Motifs Objects Hammock
2678 Cultural Issues Class Disruption
2679 Themes and Motifs Character Impotence

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC
2680 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Washington, D.C.
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
2682 Cultural Issues Clothes Military
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
2685 Environment Auditory Bees
2686 Cultural Issues War Return to war
2687 Actions Physical Mimicking
2688 Actions Interaction, Social Hosting
2689 Environment Atmospheric Candlelight
2690 Environment Atmospheric Creepy
2691 Actions Economic Investing
2692 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Helen of Troy
2693 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lilith
2694 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Semiramis
2695 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Adam
2696 Themes and Motifs Character Intelligence
2697 Aesthetics Narrative Perspective
2698 Cultural Issues Class Dehumanization
2699 Themes and Motifs Death Eulogy
2700 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Eternity
2701 Actions Movement Migration
2702 Cultural Issues War Destruction
2703 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Jordan
2704 Relationships Interspecies Woman-horse
2705 Cultural Issues War Sabotage
2706 Actions Moral Praying
2707 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical England
2708 Actions Bodily Laughing
2709 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Grant, Ulysses S.
2710 Environment Time of Day Sunday morning
2711 Actions Interaction, Social Mixed-race gathering
2712 Cultural Issues Region Rural South
2713 Actions Interaction, Social Church
2714 Environment Time of Day Breakfast
2715 Actions Violent Killing in war
2716 Cultural Issues Race Equal rights
2717 Themes and Motifs Objects Machine gun
2718 Themes and Motifs Objects Medal
2719 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vardaman, James K.
2720 Actions Verbal Tirade
2721 Themes and Motifs Texts Love letter
2722 Themes and Motifs Animals Cats
2723 Actions Movement Hot-air balloon
2724 Themes and Motifs Community Carnival
2725 Relationships Civic Charity
2726 Actions Physical new item
2727 Actions Physical Drawing
2728 Cultural Issues Government Local laws and regulations
2729 Actions Play Checkers
2730 Actions Play Chess
2731 Environment Time of Year October
2732 Environment Place Church

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