Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
2400 Themes and Motifs Values Decorum
2399 Environment Place Brothel / Bordello
2398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Eternal feminine
2397 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Medical / Surgical
2396 Cultural Issues Violence Dueling
2395 Cultural Issues Ritual Dueling
2394 Actions Moral Corrupting
2393 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Photography
2392 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Planting
2391 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Saint
2390 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical God / Jehovah
2389 Themes and Motifs Character Naivety
2388 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Puritan
2387 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Don Juan
2386 Actions Emotional Seduction
2385 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Spell
2384 Themes and Motifs Values Devotion
2383 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Secret
2382 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Phantom
2381 Actions Emotional Suspicion
2380 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lothario
2379 Themes and Motifs Animals Ants
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
2377 Themes and Motifs Art Objet d'art
2376 Aesthetics Metafictional Signs
2375 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical New Orleans, Louisiana
2374 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Desert island
2373 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Telepathy
2372 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis, Tennessee
2371 Aesthetics Metafictional Projection
2370 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Bloom
2369 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Soul / Spirit
2368 Themes and Motifs Character Provincialism
2367 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Talisman
2366 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Imitation
2365 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Arabian Nights
2364 Cultural Issues Gender Cross-dress
2363 Cultural Issues Clothes Gown
2362 Cultural Issues Clothes Cloak
2361 Relationships Friendship Male-male attraction
2360 Themes and Motifs Psychological Unconscious
2359 Themes and Motifs Character Barbarism
2358 Themes and Motifs Character Sophistication
2357 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Roman consul
2356 Actions Emotional Detachment
2355 Actions Interaction, Private Seducing
2354 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Scythian
2353 Themes and Motifs Past Innocence
2352 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Satan
2351 Environment Domestic Space Carriage house
2350 Actions Communication Telegraph
2349 Actions Mental Unaware
2348 Cultural Issues Agriculture Grist mill

This is for any general discussion of grist mills as a farm implement. JB
2347 Cultural Issues Religion African American

Religion with regard to either African-Americans or the African-American community. The particular example here is of Lucius Priest in the The Reivers who imagines a "Negro" sermonizing about a moral decision. R 61.8. JB
2346 Actions Emotional Ambivalence
2345 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Thunderclap
2344 Environment Time of Year Christmas Eve
2343 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dead time
2342 Themes and Motifs Objects Keys
2341 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Vampire
2340 Themes and Motifs Objects Chamber pot
2339 Relationships Familial Aunt-niece
2338 Cultural Issues Class Birthright
2337 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Doom
2336 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Moth
2335 Cultural Issues Crime Looting
2334 Themes and Motifs Character Integrity
2333 Themes and Motifs Objects Hammer
2332 Themes and Motifs Character Personality change
2331 Themes and Motifs Community Alienation
2330 Cultural Issues Clothes Confederate uniform
2329 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Military analogy
2328 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Sacrifice
2327 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Fort Sumter
2326 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lincoln, Abraham
2325 Actions Verbal Telling
2323 Aesthetics Metafictional Picture/image
2322 Themes and Motifs Appearance Beautiful/handsome
2321 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Phoenix
2320 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Macbeth
2319 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Stage manager
2318 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Woodpile
2317 Relationships Familial Aunt-nephew
2316 Cultural Issues Clothes Trousseau
2315 Aesthetics Narrative Summary
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion
2313 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Butterfly
2312 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Styx
2311 Cultural Issues Class Aristocratic posing
2310 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Performance
2309 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Shades
2308 Themes and Motifs Character Regal
2307 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Lack of Punctuation
2306 Environment Time of Year Planting time
2305 Actions Emotional Regret
2304 Themes and Motifs Time Just in time

Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB
2303 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Recreation
2302 Actions Bodily Blinking
2301 Cultural Issues Technology Car
2300 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Faustus

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