Keywords
Term ID |
Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1426 | Environment | Atmospheric | Dust | |
| 1425 | Aesthetics | Language | Ellipsis | |
| 1424 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vigilantism |
This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR |
| 1423 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pathetic fallacy | |
| 1422 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Unattractiveness | |
| 1421 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Dress | |
| 1420 | Relationships | Social | Isolation |
This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR |
| 1419 | Cultural Issues | Migration | Work |
This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR |
| 1418 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial | |
| 1417 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Renaming |
When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR |
| 1416 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Cars | |
| 1415 | Actions | Communication | Telephone | |
| 1414 | Cultural Issues | Race | Racist child | |
| 1413 | Actions | Physical | Stalking | |
| 1412 | Environment | Auditory | Haunting | |
| 1411 | Actions | Physical | Protection | |
| 1410 | Environment | Place | Lane | |
| 1409 | Cultural Issues | Race | Self-abnegation | |
| 1408 | Actions | Bodily | Sitting | |
| 1407 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Addiction | |
| 1406 | Relationships | Institutional | Jailer-prisoner | |
| 1405 | Actions | Legal | Arrest | |
| 1404 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Terror | |
| 1403 | Environment | Domestic Space | Cabin | |
| 1402 | Actions | Bodily | Singing | |
| 1401 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Pregnancy | |
| 1400 | Actions | Violent | Suicide | |
| 1399 | Environment | Public | Jail | |
| 1398 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Hypocrisy | |
| 1397 | Relationships | Civic | child protection | |
| 1396 | Actions | Verbal | Joking | |
| 1395 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | knife | |
| 1394 | Environment | Public | Bus Depot/Bus stop | |
| 1393 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Birds | |
| 1392 | Actions | Emotional | Sadness | |
| 1391 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Suitcase | |
| 1390 | Actions | Movement | Bus | |
| 1389 | Actions | Physical | Kissing | |
| 1388 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bible | |
| 1387 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Out of ordered place |
This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR |
| 1386 | Aesthetics | Tone | Absurdist | |
| 1385 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Capture as loss | |
| 1384 | Relationships | Familial | Physical resemblances | |
| 1383 | Actions | Perceptual | Overhearing | |
| 1382 | Actions | Work | For room and board | |
| 1381 | Relationships | Familial | Exigent circumstances | |
| 1380 | Aesthetics | Language | Ah-Ah-Ah | |
| 1379 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Doctoring | |
| 1378 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Nursing | |
| 1377 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Injured | |
| 1376 | Actions | Physical | Dressing | |
| 1375 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, female | |
| 1374 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, male | |
| 1373 | Actions | Non-human | Escape | |
| 1372 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Accident | |
| 1371 | Environment | Domestic Space | Boarding house | |
| 1370 | Aesthetics | Tone | Farce | |
| 1369 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Chaos | |
| 1368 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Rural sales | |
| 1367 | Actions | Physical | Undressing | |
| 1366 | Relationships | Familial | Physical discipline | |
| 1365 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Maternal impulse | |
| 1364 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Pause | |
| 1363 | Actions | Perceptual | Nosiness | |
| 1362 | Environment | Place | Corral | |
| 1361 | Aesthetics | Tone | Sarcastic | |
| 1360 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Female | |
| 1359 | Actions | Economic | Scheming | |
| 1358 | Cultural Issues | Prejudice | Socio-economic | |
| 1357 | Cultural Issues | Class | Snopesism | |
| 1356 | Environment | Auditory | Confused din | |
| 1355 | Relationships | Marital | Adultery | |
| 1354 | Relationships | Marital | Abandonment | |
| 1353 | Cultural Issues | Food | As substitute | |
| 1352 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Life as repetition | |
| 1351 | Relationships | Familial | Invented | |
| 1350 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Car accident | |
| 1349 | Themes and Motifs | Death | In childbirth | |
| 1348 | Environment | Place | Hospital | |
| 1347 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Lack of choice | |
| 1346 | Cultural Issues | Race | Imaginary Negro men | |
| 1345 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | When will it stop | |
| 1344 | Actions | Verbal | Screaming | |
| 1343 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letters | |
| 1342 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Vicarious | |
| 1341 | Actions | Emotional | Exultation | |
| 1340 | Actions | Mental | Channeling |
An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR |
| 1339 | Actions | Bodily | Gaining weight | |
| 1338 | Actions | Perceptual | Professional surveillance | |
| 1337 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Frustration | |
| 1336 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Christ | |
| 1335 | Actions | Bodily | Insomnia | |
| 1334 | Relationships | Marital | Vicarious wedding | |
| 1333 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Obsession | |
| 1332 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Nothingness | |
| 1331 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as loss | |
| 1329 | Environment | Olfactory | Evoking memory | |
| 1328 | Relationships | Marital | Separated | |
| 1327 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence | |
| 1326 | Environment | Place | Vacant house |