Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
2695 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Adam
2694 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Semiramis
2693 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lilith
2692 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Helen of Troy
2691 Actions Economic Investing
2690 Environment Atmospheric Creepy
2689 Environment Atmospheric Candlelight
2688 Actions Interaction, Social Hosting
2687 Actions Physical Mimicking
2686 Cultural Issues War Return to war
2685 Environment Auditory Bees
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
2682 Cultural Issues Clothes Military
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
2680 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Washington, D.C.
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
2678 Cultural Issues Class Disruption
2677 Themes and Motifs Objects Hammock
2676 Themes and Motifs Objects Jug
2675 Cultural Issues Clothes Ribbons
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

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