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Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
3486 Actions Work Sowing
3485 Aesthetics Language Antimetabole
3484 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Delilah
3482 Cultural Issues Entertainment Recital
3481 Cultural Issues Gender Female stereotype
3480 Themes and Motifs Appearance Baldness
3479 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Booth, William
3478 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South America
3477 Themes and Motifs Objects Tea
3476 Themes and Motifs Appearance Ugliness
3475 Cultural Issues Sexuality Experience
3474 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Texas
3473 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Atalanta
3472 Environment Time of Day Tea
3471 Aesthetics Language Archaic
3470 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ahenobarbus
3469 Actions Play Tennis
3468 Actions Bodily Snoring
3467 Relationships Hierarchical Master-servant
3466 Cultural Issues Education Rhodes Scholar
3465 Cultural Issues Education Oxford
3464 Cultural Issues Education Sewanee
3463 Themes and Motifs Time Routine
3462 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Romance
3461 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Arlen, Michael
3460 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Dreiser, Theodore
3459 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sabatini, Rafael
3458 Cultural Issues Gender Taste
3457 Themes and Motifs Character Bookishness
3456 Themes and Motifs Character Duty
3455 Themes and Motifs Past Anxiety about|Resistance to change
3454 Relationships Romantic Flirtation
3453 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Weak heart
3452 Cultural Issues Class Social mobility
3451 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Abraham
3450 Actions Verbal Chanting
3449 Actions Verbal Esoteric language
3448 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Aloneness

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
3447 Actions Emotional Longing
3446 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Milton, John
3445 Environment Natural Cave
3444 Themes and Motifs Art Artistic creation
3443 Actions Work Glassblowing
3442 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary A Midsummer Night's Dream
3441 Environment Domestic Space Dollhouse
3440 Actions Work Landscaping
3439 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Barbados
3438 Environment Atmospheric Arcadian
3437 Themes and Motifs Community Populace
3436 Cultural Issues War Peace
3435 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hinson, Jack
3434 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Johnston, Joseph E.
3433 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Beauregard, P. G. T.
3432 Cultural Issues War Noncombatant
3431 Themes and Motifs Objects Vase
3430 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Venice
3429 Environment Natural Fire
3428 Themes and Motifs Objects Ship
3427 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Brest
3426 Themes and Motifs Psychological Disembodiment
3425 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Three score and ten
3424 Actions Verbal Monologue
3423 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Cerberus
3422 Cultural Issues Entertainment Traditional music
3421 Aesthetics Description Delayed decoding

Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR
3420 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Abortion
3419 Themes and Motifs Death Liminal

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP
3418 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Stillness
3417 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vitality
3416 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Blame
3415 Actions Verbal Consoling
3414 Actions Bodily Shaking
3413 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Italian flag
3412 Cultural Issues Clothes Hat, stovepipe
3411 Themes and Motifs Community Decoration Day
3410 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Garibaldi, Giuseppe
3409 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Columbus, Christopher
3408 Cultural Issues War Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
3407 Themes and Motifs Community Parade
3406 Actions Communication Sending mail
3405 Environment Public Post office
3404 Aesthetics Narrative Irony
3403 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Armor
3402 Themes and Motifs Objects Cards
3401 Actions Play Polo
3400 Actions Emotional Gratitude
3399 Environment Olfactory Starch
3398 Environment Olfactory Shaving lotion
3397 Environment Olfactory Benzene
3396 Environment Olfactory Tobacco
3395 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Change of environment

Created for people like Melisandre Backus Harriss's children who relocate to Europe for their health.--LW
3394 Actions Economic Indebtedness
3393 Actions Legal Bailing out
3392 Actions Emotional Sympathy
3391 Actions Emotional Triumph
3390 Actions Verbal Instructing
3389 Actions Emotional Rage
3388 Actions Emotional Shock
3387 Actions Violent Beating
3386 Cultural Issues Technology Running water

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