Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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1877 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Cooper, James Fenimore | |
1876 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Scott, Walter | |
1875 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Taylor, Jeremy | |
1874 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Mississippi Reports | |
1873 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Koran | |
1872 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Josephus, Flavius | |
1871 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Coke upon Littleton | |
1870 | Actions | Physical | Riding | |
1869 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Bonaparte, Napoleon | |
1868 | Actions | Agricultural | Livestock care | |
1867 | Actions | Physical | Eating | |
1866 | Actions | Verbal | Announcing | |
1865 | Actions | Physical | Building | |
1864 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Will to endure | |
1863 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homecoming | |
1862 | Actions | Physical | Running | |
1861 | Actions | Physical | Throwing | |
1860 | Relationships | Familial | Husband-wife | |
1859 | Relationships | Familial | Motherhood |
As a part of one's identity. I created it when Temple Drake (in Requiem) notes that she had become a mother but never exorcised her culturally improper sexual desires. SR |
1858 | Actions | Play | Historical recreation | |
1857 | Relationships | Commercial | Business partners | |
1856 | Environment | Time of Day | Daybreak | |
1855 | Environment | Time of Year | April | |
1854 | Actions | Verbal | Silence | |
1853 | Cultural Issues | Race | Colorism | |
1852 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Commentary | |
1851 | Actions | Bodily | Chewing | |
1850 | Actions | Work | Fireman | |
1849 | Cultural Issues | Politics | City government | |
1848 | Actions | Work | Government | |
1846 | Cultural Issues | Education | Yale | |
1845 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Bachelor | |
1844 | Actions | Work | Restauranteer | |
1843 | Actions | Work | Store clerk | |
1842 | Actions | Verbal | Bragging | |
1841 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Elephants | |
1840 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Tigers | |
1839 | Environment | Public | Zoo | |
1838 | Actions | Mental | Self-consciousness | |
1837 | Environment | Place | City |
For when a place is characterized by its built-up nature, especially as a contrast to town or rural places (e.g., "the tall buildings and the hard pavements and the street cars" in "Lion"). JBP |
1836 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Hunting clothes | |
1835 | Actions | Violent | Destructive behavior |
Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP |
1834 | Actions | Violent | Animal predatory behavior | |
1833 | Actions | Agricultural | Farming | |
1832 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Importance of naming |
When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP |
1831 | Relationships | Social | Fame | |
1830 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Named bear Ben | |
1829 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Boxers Dempsey and Tunney | |
1828 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Boxers Sullivan and Kilrain | |
1827 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pokeberry juice | |
1826 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Beaver hat | |
1825 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ballot Box | |
1824 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wreath | |
1823 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Basket | |
1822 | Environment | Natural | Spring | |
1821 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Bird | |
1820 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mosquitoes | |
1819 | Actions | Physical | Repair | |
1818 | Environment | Place | Grave | |
1817 | Actions | Hunting | Squirrel hunting | |
1816 | Actions | Physical | Hammering | |
1815 | Actions | Emotional | Frustration | |
1814 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Recent past |
For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.) |
1813 | Environment | Natural | Landmark |
This term can be used for natural phenomena used as a landmark. (Added for the Gum Tree -- capitalized in the text -- used in "Lion" and related texts like "The Bear.") |
1812 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Living in the present |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
1811 | Actions | Mental | Realization | |
1810 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Gun | |
1809 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Squirrel | |
1808 | Cultural Issues | War | Scorched-earth policy |
This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South. |
1807 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Manipulation | |
1806 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Reminiscence | |
1805 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Imagined conversation |
When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR |
1804 | Aesthetics | Diction | Imitation |
When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR |
1803 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Monument | |
1802 | Cultural Issues | Race | Integration | |
1801 | Actions | Verbal | Apology | |
1800 | Environment | Auditory | Voices | |
1799 | Relationships | Familial | Brother-sister | |
1798 | Aesthetics | Language | Call and response | |
1797 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pipe | |
1796 | Environment | Domestic Space | Dilapidation | |
1795 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Roman senator | |
1794 | Cultural Issues | Politics | Republicanism | |
1793 | Cultural Issues | Mass Media | Advertising | |
1792 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Square brackets | |
1791 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Traits |
Indicates when a particular quality is attributed to a character on the basis of their gender, such as when Miss Belle Worsham is described as possessing "some old, timeless, female affinity for blood and grief" (p. 261) in "Go Down, Moses." BR |
1790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Coffin | |
1789 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Expenses | |
1788 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Corpse | |
1787 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Handbag | |
1786 | Environment | Weather | Sun | |
1785 | Actions | Emotional | Indecision | |
1784 | Environment | Weather | Heat | |
1783 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Alias | |
1782 | Actions | Verbal | Banishment | |
1781 | Actions | Emotional | Refusal | |
1780 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Sin | |
1779 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Divine plan | |
1778 | Cultural Issues | Law | Alibi | |
1777 | Environment | Place | Gas station |