Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
2674 | Cultural Issues | Food | Meat | |
2673 | Cultural Issues | Food | Bread | |
2672 | Actions | Verbal | Haggling | |
2671 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream turns to dust | |
2670 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Creditor | |
2669 | Cultural Issues | History | Dispossessing Indians | |
2668 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Jackal | |
2667 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Beelzebub | |
2666 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scythe | |
2665 | Cultural Issues | War | Draft evasion / Draft dodging | |
2664 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Pyramus and Thisbe | |
2663 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Agamemnon | |
2662 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Davis, Jefferson | |
2661 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Lee, Robert Edward | |
2660 | Aesthetics | Tone | Shift | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
2658 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Reticule | |
2657 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Hamlet | |
2656 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving | |
2655 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Guinevere | |
2654 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Coma | |
2653 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Odor | |
2652 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Language |
To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC |
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 |
2650 | Actions | Moral | Forgiveness | |
2649 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Reputation | |
2648 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Principle | |
2647 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pilgrim | |
2646 | Actions | Mental | Submission / Acquiescence | |
2645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ring | |
2644 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Hand / Palm | |
2643 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hoe | |
2642 | Actions | Work | Sharpening | |
2641 | Actions | Verbal | Marriage proposal | |
2640 | Cultural Issues | Race | Ku Klux Klan | |
2639 | Cultural Issues | Race | Riots | |
2638 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Carcassonne | |
2637 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Camelot | |
2636 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Shell | |
2635 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Ripple | |
2634 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Mirage | |
2633 | Cultural Issues | War | Return from war | |
2632 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rape | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
2630 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Shirt | |
2629 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Mirror | |
2628 | Actions | Verbal | Rebel yell | |
2627 | Actions | Emotional | Calm | |
2626 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reality | |
2625 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Echo | |
2624 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homebound | |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
2622 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mediation |
Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC |
2621 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fish | |
2620 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Womb | |
2619 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Transsexuality | |
2618 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Snake | |
2617 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Eve | |
2616 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Sensory experience | |
2615 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Brain / mind | |
2613 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Sickness | |
2612 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunted house | |
2611 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Fantasy |
Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC |
2610 | Environment | Domestic Space | Stairway | |
2609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Touch | |
2608 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunting | |
2607 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sound of a gunshot | |
2606 | Actions | Emotional | Contempt | |
2605 | Actions | Verbal | Ultimatum | |
2604 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Absurdity | |
2603 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Stove polish | |
2602 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Sherman, William Tecumseh | |
2601 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scarecrow | |
2600 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Permanence | |
2599 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scratch | |
2598 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Voice | |
2597 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Stone | |
2596 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Loom | |
2595 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Skull | |
2594 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Tombstone | |
2593 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Demijohn | |
2592 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitary | |
2591 | Actions | Military | Promotion | |
2590 | Relationships | Friendship | Male-male relationship | |
2589 | Actions | Military | Marching | |
2588 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Priapus | |
2587 | Cultural Issues | Agriculture | Husbandry |
Any part of a text related to the care and breeding of animals. The immediate context for this is on an actual farm, as for example Mink's attempt to breed his cow with a local bull. It also extends out to any knowledge of animals for the purposes of domestication or labor. For example, Lucius Priest being able to identify a horse as "three-quarters-bred" in The Reivers, though the horse itself is not on a farm. JB |
2586 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Parsham | |
2585 | Cultural Issues | Race | Solidarity |
Whenever characters feel a relationship or shared purpose with another character due to racial affinity. In the specific example, Lucius imagines that Ned and Minnie have some type of relationship because they are both African-American (117). JB |
2584 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Bribe |
Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB |
2583 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Race |
These are racial issues specifically related to alcohol. For example, Minnie in The Reivers declines to drink with too many white people at once (113). There are also other issues around the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol that cut across racial lines. I thought it was more appropriate to place this here rather than in the race category within cultural issues, as that is already getting full, and becomes the alcohol predominates here. JB |
2582 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Gin | |
2581 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Gamecock | |
2580 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Tennessee | |
2579 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Conservative |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
2578 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Liberal |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
2577 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Democrat |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
2576 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republican |
In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB |
2575 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Beer | |
2574 | Actions | Moral | Secret |
This is the action of keeping a secret or deciding whether or not to keep a secret. It is not necessarily good or bad, rather keeping a secret is a type of moral choice. Since, this is a singular secret and not a protracted secret, as for example Linda Snopes's parentage, this is placed under moral actions and not themes. JB |