Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
497 Actions Movement Wagon
3264 Actions Physical Wagon|Car maintenance
5651 Actions Work Waiter
1616 Actions Hunting Waiting
1879 Actions Physical Waiting
2854 Actions Emotional Waiting
4621 Actions Work Waitress
2180 Actions Bodily Waking
704 Actions Movement Walking
2735 Actions Physical Walking
1269 Actions Verbal Warning
5216 Actions Legal Warrant
1189 Actions Domestic Washing
630 Actions Physical Washing clothes
658 Actions Work Washing clothes
1482 Actions Bodily Watching
1726 Actions Perceptual Watching
4722 Actions Physical Watching
4071 Actions Physical Wave / waving
5166 Actions Bodily Weakness
5293 Actions Work Weaving
4647 Actions Verbal Whimper
2482 Actions Violent Whipping
1077 Actions Verbal Whispering
5147 Actions Physical Whistling
5079 Actions Physical Whittling
4014 Actions Hunting Wildcat hunting
4571 Actions Legal Will
4080 Actions Physical Winking
3127 Actions Verbal Wishing
5518 Actions Interaction, Social Withdrawal from public
868 Actions Verbal Withholding
1570 Actions Communication Without words

When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow.
357 Actions (First level term) Work
4431 Actions Bodily Work song
825 Actions Emotional Worry
5800 Actions Agricultural Wrangling
5628 Actions Physical Wrestling
1900 Actions Communication Writing
5224 Actions Verbal Writing
4832 Actions Movement Wrong direction
5497 Actions Work Yard work
2752 Actions Verbal Yelling
3684 Aesthetics Diction "Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past

This could come under Style, too -- to capture when Faulkner uses simple words like "is" or "was" as synonyms for larger concepts of past or present. Added for Quentin, but could be used in As I Lay Dying too for Darl's rumination on the same. JBP
3442 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary A Midsummer Night's Dream
5317 Aesthetics Language Aaahhhhhhh
5632 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab Snopes at De Spain's house
5747 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab Snopes Horse trading
5077 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab's war wound
4089 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Abduction myths
3451 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Abraham
1386 Aesthetics Tone Absurdist
4074 Aesthetics Language Abundance or flow of words

For whenever a text makes a point of "words" (without necessarily listing specific ones) - generalizing about them. Added for when Quentin starts thinking about being "the words coming out" as he reflects on how could he be a virgin. JBP
740 Aesthetics Diction Accent
4062 Aesthetics Narrative Adage
2695 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Adam
5348 Aesthetics Style Address to reader
4099 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Affirmation

Similar to the keyword for negation, but for when a text vaguely affirms or says yes about something. (Cf. Quentin saying "we did" and "yes Yes Yes yes" on 148-49 of SF.) JBP
2796 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Africa
690 Aesthetics Diction African American vernacular dialect
3521 Aesthetics Narrative African-American folk sayings
2663 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Agamemnon
4104 Aesthetics Language Ah Ah Ah
4105 Aesthetics Language ah ah ah
1380 Aesthetics Language Ah-Ah-Ah
4326 Aesthetics Language Ah-h-h
3470 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ahenobarbus
5720 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Aitken, Max
5726 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Aitken, Max
4195 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Alabama
4381 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Alabama Secession Convention
3181 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Alexander
2017 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography All caps
5450 Aesthetics Language All right, all right, all right
1095 Aesthetics (First level term) Allusion, Biblical
1096 Aesthetics (First level term) Allusion, Geographical
406 Aesthetics (First level term) Allusion, Historical
1097 Aesthetics (First level term) Allusion, Literary
1098 Aesthetics (First level term) Allusion, Mythical
5249 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Alma Tadema
2936 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Alps
3215 Aesthetics Narrative Alternative story
485 Aesthetics (First level term) Ambiguity
1692 Aesthetics Interpretation Ambiguity
2812 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Americans for Democratic Action
4219 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Amiens, France
4113 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Amsterdam
5744 Aesthetics Language Anaphora
1990 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Ancient Greek Chorus
5466 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ancient Greeks
4740 Aesthetics Ambiguity And detective plot
1526 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Angel
5616 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Animals compared to objects
2222 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Animals compared to people
2270 Aesthetics Description Animate/Inanimate
1638 Aesthetics Narrative Anti-climax
1901 Aesthetics Narrative Anticipation
3485 Aesthetics Language Antimetabole
3776 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Antony and Cleopatra
3884 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ants

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