Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
1324 Themes and Motifs Animals Metaphorical elephant
281 Cultural Issues Slavery Metaphorical

Used to flag the passages in which a narrator or a non-enslaved character uses "slavery" metaphorically, to describe something else. Lucas Burch, for instance, complains that his job at the planing mill has him "slaving all day." SR
1030 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Metaphor
4118 Themes and Motifs Objects Metal detector
484 Aesthetics (First level term) Metafictional
1502 Actions Communication Messenger

Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person.
4532 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Messalina
4305 Actions Verbal Message
5474 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mesopotamia
3032 Aesthetics Metafictional Merging history and fiction
1108 Cultural Issues War Mercenary
1262 Cultural Issues Education Mentorship
1263 Relationships Social Mentorship
1264 Relationships Familial Mentorship
806 Relationships Intergenerational Mentor-disciple
721 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental limitations
1521 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental illness
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
348 Actions (First level term) Mental
3945 Cultural Issues Gender Menstruation / menstrual cycle
5174 Actions Bodily Menstruation
529 Cultural Issues Labor Menial
5369 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Menelaus
5134 Actions Domestic Mending
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
805 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Men
2372 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis, Tennessee
5421 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis Junction
589 Environment Place Memphis
460 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Memory
2103 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Melodrama
3680 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine camphor
4498 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine aspirin
3254 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine
4266 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical treatment
2037 Environment Place Medical practice

Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB
1296 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical advice
2397 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Medical / Surgical
2622 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mediation

Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC
413 Aesthetics (First level term) Media
3751 Actions Physical Meddling
2718 Themes and Motifs Objects Medal
2061 Actions Work Mechanic
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
3515 Themes and Motifs Time Measuring time
2924 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Measles
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
5407 Themes and Motifs Money Meaning of
381 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Meaning
3231 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McLaurin
5670 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McClellan, George B.
723 Environment Place McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
5072 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes McCarron ambushed
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
1976 Environment Time of Year May
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
1107 Themes and Motifs Character Maturity
1306 Cultural Issues Age Maturing
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
1365 Cultural Issues Gender Maternal impulse
473 Cultural Issues (First level term) Materialism
871 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Material
4278 Themes and Motifs Objects Matchstick
3607 Actions Movement Matching / Paralleling
2971 Cultural Issues Agriculture Matched team of horses or mules
1594 Relationships Hierarchical Master-slave
1912 Relationships Interracial Master-slave
1551 Relationships Interracial Master-servant
3467 Relationships Hierarchical Master-servant
3610 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Massachusetts
438 Cultural Issues (First level term) Mass Media
751 Cultural Issues Race Masquerade

I created "Masquerade" to address Lucas’s dissimulation with Roth Edmonds, the inscrutability of his racial performance. JW
2568 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Masons
3619 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mason and Dixon Line
2798 Cultural Issues Religion Mason

Although the Masons are explicitly not a religion, as a secret fraternal order they do represent a belief system. I have placed them under religion for the time being, until we figure out a better place. JB
679 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Mask
585 Cultural Issues Gender Masculinity
1272 Cultural Issues Gender Masculine woman
2173 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Mary
5476 Cultural Issues Religion Martyrdom
847 Cultural Issues Law Marshal
2050 Environment Place Mars
5273 Relationships Marital Marriage vs freedom
2641 Actions Verbal Marriage proposal
3288 Actions Communication Marriage announcement
1579 Cultural Issues Segregation Marriage
1581 Relationships Interracial Marriage
310 Cultural Issues Slavery Marriage
323 Cultural Issues Gender Marriage
949 Actions Interaction, Social Marriage
1238 Actions Legal Marriage
5465 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Marlowe, Christopher
2054 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Marksmanship
1683 Actions Interaction, Social Marketing
5569 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Market-hunting
4875 Cultural Issues Agriculture Market gardening
5308 Cultural Issues Economy Market day
3216 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Mark Twain
3581 Actions Work Maritime / Marine

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