Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
2912 Actions Mental Disbelief
1203 Actions Mental Discovery
4199 Actions Mental Disorientation
3801 Actions Mental Distraction
3660 Actions Mental Distrust
1314 Actions Mental Dreaming
1966 Actions Mental Economizing

When a character invests effort in thinking strategically about personal or household economy, such as when Cora Tull attempts to pay for her pricey chickens by selling cakes made with the eggs of those chickens in AILD. EP
890 Actions Mental Envisioning
3553 Actions Mental Failing / Failure
3327 Actions Mental Fantasizing
2263 Actions Mental Fatalism
3907 Actions Mental Flashback
5155 Actions Mental Forgetting
3047 Actions Mental Hallucinating
2177 Actions Mental Imagining
2207 Actions Mental Impairment
3555 Actions Mental Inattentativeness
3804 Actions Mental Incomprehension
1996 Actions Mental Inquiry
4328 Actions Mental Insight
4346 Actions Mental Internal argument
5121 Actions Mental Knowing
3517 Actions Mental Learning
4360 Actions Mental Logically reasoning
2219 Actions Mental Misunderstanding
2499 Actions Mental Nightmare
4029 Actions Mental Planning
2847 Actions Mental Predicting
1811 Actions Mental Realization
4842 Actions Mental Reinterpretation
1150 Actions Mental Remembering
2917 Actions Mental Repression
1838 Actions Mental Self-consciousness
2146 Actions Mental Skepticism
1234 Actions Mental Speculation
3098 Actions Mental Studying
2646 Actions Mental Submission / Acquiescence
4073 Actions Mental Suppression / trying not to think
2973 Actions Mental Thinking
2349 Actions Mental Unaware
575 Actions Mental Uncertainty
981 Actions Mental Understanding
4986 Actions Mental Visualize
2237 Themes and Motifs Memory Collective memory
2112 Themes and Motifs Memory Forgetting
5278 Themes and Motifs Memory Haunted by past
4884 Themes and Motifs Memory Not remember
856 Themes and Motifs Memory Remembering
640 Themes and Motifs Memory Remembering passim
4004 Themes and Motifs Memory Sensory memory

When the physical sensation of a particular past event is remembered by a character. BR
1881 Themes and Motifs Memory Uncertain
2604 Themes and Motifs Meaning Absurdity
5401 Themes and Motifs Meaning Aesthetic experience
5091 Themes and Motifs Meaning Interpretation
2427 Themes and Motifs Meaning Interpretation of symbol
3833 Themes and Motifs Meaning Limitations of words / language
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
3160 Themes and Motifs Meaning Misinterpretation
877 Themes and Motifs Meaning Mystery
3820 Themes and Motifs Meaning Paternity
3979 Themes and Motifs Meaning Profound
3359 Cultural Issues Materialism Americana
3342 Cultural Issues Materialism Machinery or mechanical references

For when a text makes explicit reference to machinery, mechanical issues, or the workings of related items -- e.g., Quentin's references in S&F to the wheels and gears of his watch (and his father's before him). JBP
3360 Cultural Issues Materialism Souvenir
2059 Cultural Issues Materialism Status

Any material acquisition that signifies a marker of status. Lucius Priest buying an automobile because Colonel Sartoris had one. J. Burgers.
1793 Cultural Issues Mass Media Advertising
1447 Cultural Issues Mass Media Fantasy

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR
4482 Cultural Issues Mass Media Graphophone
1286 Cultural Issues Mass Media Magazines
1287 Cultural Issues Mass Media Movies
667 Cultural Issues Mass Media Newspaper
3770 Cultural Issues Mass Media Newspaper comics / funny paper
708 Cultural Issues Mass Media Radio
801 Cultural Issues Mass Media Telephone
1354 Relationships Marital Abandonment
625 Relationships Marital Abusive
1355 Relationships Marital Adultery
1147 Relationships Marital Alleged
3384 Relationships Marital Arranged
1029 Relationships Marital Arrangements
2992 Relationships Marital As atonement
4954 Relationships Marital Bachelor
1168 Relationships Marital Bigamy
4141 Relationships Marital Breakup
4086 Relationships Marital Certificate
1321 Relationships Marital Civil marriage
893 Relationships Marital Common law
1055 Relationships Marital Conflict
3118 Relationships Marital Death of spouse
1233 Relationships Marital Desertion
4125 Relationships Marital Divorce
628 Relationships Marital Elopement
4196 Relationships Marital Entrapment
1067 Relationships Marital Father in law-son in law
1622 Relationships Marital Forced
3097 Relationships Marital Honeymoon
5353 Relationships Marital Honeymoon
674 Relationships Marital Husband-wife

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