Keywords
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Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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2186 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Protest | |
2185 | Environment | Atmospheric | Claustrophobic | |
2184 | Actions | Emotional | Hate | |
2183 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Destiny | |
2182 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Quotation as thought |
For when a text says a character "thinks" or "thought" something - often as a passage in quotation marks but also sometimes in italics. In those cases, perhaps the "Italics" keyword should also be applied. JBP |
2181 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Precognition / Something to happen |
For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP |
2180 | Actions | Bodily | Waking | |
2179 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Poisoning | |
2178 | Actions | Bodily | Bathing and/or personal hygiene | |
2177 | Actions | Mental | Imagining | |
2176 | Actions | Perceptual | Reading / Researching | |
2175 | Actions | Communication | Newspaper columns and notices |
For references to items in newspapers that aren't exactly news articles - "agony advice columns," for instance (in "Miss Zilpha Gant"), or obituaries, or similar items. JBP |
2174 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Conception/Conceiving a child | |
2173 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Mary | |
2172 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Faithfulness |
Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP |
2171 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Ball/dance | |
2170 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Grable, Betty | |
2169 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Harlow, Jean | |
2168 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Monroe, Marilyn | |
2167 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Chicago | |
2166 | Cultural Issues | Progress | New replacing old | |
2165 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Crusades | |
2164 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Caesar, Julius | |
2163 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Noah/flood | |
2162 | Actions | Physical | Freeing | |
2161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Eyeglasses | |
2160 | Actions | Work | Painting|Drawing | |
2159 | Actions | Physical | Intrusion | |
2158 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Long passage of time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
2157 | Environment | Place | Lonelier parts of town |
Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP |
2156 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Military terminology | |
2155 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Learning about |
This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP |
2154 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Puberty |
For when a text makes reference (perhaps implicitly) to puberty and/or sexual maturing. It was added for the moment in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother makes her get naked and examines her body each month when she turns 13. |
2153 | Environment | Weather | Mild | |
2152 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Refund | |
2151 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dolls | |
2150 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Stove | |
2149 | Actions | Bodily | Healing | |
2148 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Domineering | |
2147 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Parenting | |
2146 | Actions | Mental | Skepticism | |
2145 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Scar | |
2144 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Cuba | |
2143 | Cultural Issues | Education | West Point | |
2142 | Cultural Issues | War | Spanish American War | |
2141 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Bathing suit | |
2140 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Scientific |
To be used for figures of speech drawn from science (for example, references to osmosis, astronomy, or Darwinian evolution) - CR |
2139 | Environment | Place | Power Plant | |
2138 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Imagined | |
2137 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Challenge |
When characters actively set themselves at odds with a religious deity or institution, such as when Jewel in AILD gripes, "if there is a God what the hell is He for." EP |
2136 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Seeking approval | |
2135 | Environment | Olfactory | Bad smell | |
2134 | Cultural Issues | War | Demotion | |
2133 | Cultural Issues | War | Displacement | |
2132 | Actions | Domestic | Food preparation | |
2131 | Actions | Physical | Dancing | |
2130 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Metonym | |
2129 | Environment | Auditory | Bugle | |
2128 | Actions | Physical | Discovering |
For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP |
2127 | Actions | Physical | Finding |
For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP |
2126 | Actions | Bodily | Coughing | |
2125 | Environment | Place | Vacant lot | |
2124 | Environment | Domestic Space | Confined living quarters |
Refers to when a text draws attention to the relative smallness or confined nature of where a character resides - a "single room twelve feet square," for example. -JBP |
2123 | Actions | Economic | Buying a shop or store | |
2122 | Actions | Economic | Selling a house or place | |
2121 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Owed |
This keyword is for when a character claims or otherwise believes he or she is owed money (to repay a debt, as payment for labor, etc.). -JBP |
2120 | Actions | Economic | Horse trading | |
2119 | Actions | Economic | Stock trading |
Term for those who buy or sell "stock" - horses, mules, etc. -JBP |
2118 | Actions | Emotional | Nostalgia | |
2117 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Guitar | |
2116 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Coat | |
2115 | Environment | Weather | Frost | |
2114 | Environment | Atmospheric | Firelight | |
2113 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Playfulness | |
2112 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Forgetting | |
2111 | Actions | Verbal | Teasing | |
2110 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Thimble | |
2109 | Actions | Emotional | Hysteria | |
2108 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Resolve | |
2107 | Cultural Issues | Group Mentality | Social Shaming | |
2106 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Methodism | |
2105 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Richard I of England | |
2104 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Unruliness | |
2103 | Aesthetics | Genre Conventions | Melodrama | |
2102 | Actions | Verbal | Exaggeration | |
2101 | Cultural Issues | War | Civil War | |
2100 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Nose | |
2099 | Environment | Atmospheric | Sunlight | |
2098 | Actions | Movement | Sneaking | |
2097 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Suit | |
2096 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Chronological enjambment |
When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other. |
2095 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Seed | |
2094 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving home | |
2093 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pine knots | |
2092 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Conscience | |
2091 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Rain | |
2090 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Cosmetics | |
2089 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of animal companion | |
2088 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Swagger | |
2087 | Actions | Verbal | Singing |