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Term IDsort descending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
1828 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Boxers Sullivan and Kilrain
1829 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Boxers Dempsey and Tunney
1830 Themes and Motifs Animals Named bear Ben
1831 Relationships Social Fame
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
1833 Actions Agricultural Farming
1834 Actions Violent Animal predatory behavior
1835 Actions Violent Destructive behavior

Should "destructive" be a second-level category for "Actions"? (Violent seems wrong for things like vandalism.) -JBP
1836 Cultural Issues Clothes Hunting clothes
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
1838 Actions Mental Self-consciousness
1839 Environment Public Zoo
1840 Themes and Motifs Animals Tigers
1841 Themes and Motifs Animals Elephants
1842 Actions Verbal Bragging
1843 Actions Work Store clerk
1844 Actions Work Restauranteer
1845 Cultural Issues Gender Bachelor
1846 Cultural Issues Education Yale
1848 Actions Work Government
1849 Cultural Issues Politics City government
1850 Actions Work Fireman
1851 Actions Bodily Chewing
1852 Aesthetics Narrative Commentary
1853 Cultural Issues Race Colorism
1854 Actions Verbal Silence
1855 Environment Time of Year April
1856 Environment Time of Day Daybreak
1857 Relationships Commercial Business partners
1858 Actions Play Historical recreation
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
1860 Relationships Familial Husband-wife
1861 Actions Physical Throwing
1862 Actions Physical Running
1863 Themes and Motifs Home Homecoming
1864 Themes and Motifs Psychological Will to endure
1865 Actions Physical Building
1866 Actions Verbal Announcing
1867 Actions Physical Eating
1868 Actions Agricultural Livestock care
1869 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bonaparte, Napoleon
1870 Actions Physical Riding
1871 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Coke upon Littleton
1872 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Josephus, Flavius
1873 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Koran
1874 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Mississippi Reports
1875 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Taylor, Jeremy
1876 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Scott, Walter
1877 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Cooper, James Fenimore
1878 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Dumas, Alexandre
1879 Actions Physical Waiting
1880 Actions Physical Dreaming
1881 Themes and Motifs Memory Uncertain
1882 Actions Emotional Lust
1883 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Ghost
1884 Cultural Issues Sexuality Virginity
1885 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Crucifixion
1886 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Voice
1887 Themes and Motifs Objects Wisteria
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
1889 Aesthetics Metafictional Painting
1890 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Demon
1891 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chains
1892 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Oxymoron
1893 Aesthetics Symbolism Hamsa
1894 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creation
1895 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Genesis
1896 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity North vs South
1897 Themes and Motifs Art Poetry
1898 Actions Bodily Starvation
1899 Cultural Issues Clothes Wedding dress
1900 Actions Communication Writing
1901 Aesthetics Narrative Anticipation
1902 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Disease
1903 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Skeleton
1904 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Ogre
1905 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Hell
1906 Themes and Motifs Objects Photograph
1907 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Niobe
1908 Environment Atmospheric Gloom
1909 Cultural Issues Crime Fratricide
1910 Relationships Familial Dissolution
1911 Environment Weather Sunshine
1912 Relationships Interracial Master-slave
1913 Actions Movement Fetching
1914 Actions Movement Running
1915 Actions Movement Hiding
1916 Actions Domestic Discipline
1917 Actions Movement Spitting
1918 Environment Domestic Space Deathbed
1919 Actions Verbal Requesting
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
1921 Themes and Motifs Psychological Trauma
1922 Actions Moral Renounce
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
1924 Themes and Motifs Morals Honor
1925 Themes and Motifs Objects Sword
1926 Themes and Motifs Character Teetotaler
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
1928 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Heaven

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