Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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5007 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Dash | |
2662 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Davis, Jefferson | |
5481 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Daymond | |
3552 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | De Soto, Hernando | |
5069 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | De Spain creates camp | |
5223 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dead-eye Dick | |
3516 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Death / Dead imagery | |
1688 | Aesthetics | Interpretation | Debunking story | |
5661 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | DeFrance, Abraham | |
4446 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Dehumanizing |
Narrative/narrator uses a metaphor that dehumanizes a character. Popeye "had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin," in Sanctuary. |
3421 | Aesthetics | Description | Delayed decoding |
Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR |
1751 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Delayed revelation |
Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later. |
3484 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Delilah | |
1890 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Demon | |
2458 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Demosthenes | |
5624 | Aesthetics | Diction | Derogatory socio-economic term | |
1099 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Description | |
2374 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Desert island | |
4749 | Aesthetics | Genre Conventions | Detective fiction | |
3281 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Dialogue with no quotation marks | |
5467 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Dickens, Charles | |
3782 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Dickinson, Emily | |
3230 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dickson | |
407 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Diction | |
1698 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dillinger, John | |
5245 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Dionysus | |
1902 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Disease | |
4868 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Disruption | |
1930 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Divine intervention | |
1936 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Djinn | |
5562 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Doddsville, Mississippi | |
2387 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Don Juan | |
4302 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Don Quixote | |
4527 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Donne, John | |
5039 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Doom becomes chief | |
1308 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Dots |
This is for the occasions when Faulkner uses a series of dots as a feature of his prose - i.e. ". . ." or ". . . . . ." We can't call these dots ellipses, because they do not represent anything being left out of the text. The most disconcerting use of this technique is in "Miss Zilphia Gant." SR |
849 | Aesthetics | Diction | Double entendre | |
2189 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Dragon's teeth | |
3511 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Drained marsh | |
3759 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Drama / Theatre imagery | |
4520 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Drawing of an eye | |
5010 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Drawing of delta | |
3460 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dreiser, Theodore | |
5063 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Driving to Goodwin's | |
4393 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Duke John of Lorraine | |
1878 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Dumas, Alexandre | |
3295 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Dumas, Alexandre | |
3236 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Dunquerque | |
5674 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Duse, Eleonora | |
5429 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | East Lynne | |
4633 | Aesthetics | Language | eeeeeeeeeeeeeee | |
4518 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Egypt | |
4492 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Einstein, Albert | |
2032 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Electricity | |
742 | Aesthetics | Tone | Elegiac | |
3158 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Eliot, T. S. | |
5637 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Ellipses | |
1425 | Aesthetics | Language | Ellipsis | |
1049 | Aesthetics | Intertextuality | Embedded text, cursive |
This term was created In reference to the names "George Wilkins" and "Nathalie Beauchamp" written by hand on the wedding license in "Point of Law." JW |
1180 | Aesthetics | Intertextuality | Embedded text, lettering | |
3912 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Embroidery | |
3218 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Emperor Maximilian | |
2707 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | England | |
1637 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Epiphany | |
3220 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Erinys | |
5047 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Etching name on window | |
3927 | Aesthetics | Diction | Ethnic slur | |
4088 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Euboeleus / Eubuleus | |
5071 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Eula's medallion unveiled | |
5442 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Europe | |
2617 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Eve | |
4322 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Exodus | |
760 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Exoticism | |
4963 | Aesthetics | Interpretation | Explanatory passage | |
1661 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Explorers | |
2287 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Expression |
Any common expression, saying, or proverb that Faulkner uses. For example, "cat on a hot stove" or "sticks out like a horse in a duck pond." JB |
915 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Eyes | |
1204 | Aesthetics | Description | Eyes | |
1545 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Face | |
2611 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Fantasy |
Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC |
1370 | Aesthetics | Tone | Farce | |
1278 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Fate | |
2802 | Aesthetics | Intertextuality | Faulkner text | |
2300 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Faustus | |
3789 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Female monsters | |
3692 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fertilise / Fertility imagery | |
5107 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Fielding, Henry | |
5314 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Fields, Lew |
Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB |
408 | Aesthetics | (First level term) | Figures of Speech | |
3872 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fire | |
4054 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Fire | |
5042 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | First settlers arrive | |
490 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person | |
494 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person passim | |
3131 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person passim throughout section | |
504 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person plural passim | |
487 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person vernacular | |
488 | Aesthetics | Narrative | First-person vernacular passim | |
2621 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Fish | |
5119 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |