Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
2967 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Latin pastoral poetry
3168 Aesthetics Language Latin phrase
2708 Actions Bodily Laughing
1432 Actions Emotional Laughing
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
5271 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Launcelot
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
4653 Environment Place Lavatory
546 Cultural Issues Race Law
437 Cultural Issues (First level term) Law
986 Actions Work Law enforcement
518 Cultural Issues Education Law school
1132 Cultural Issues Law Law school
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
3899 Environment Place Lawns
2767 Cultural Issues Alcohol Laws

This keyword covers any laws and regulations regarding the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol. This covers "Blue Laws", bootlegging, and other legal frameworks. The reason for putting this under Alcohol and not crime was that this is not to highlight any specific law or that someone has even committed a crime, but rather the legal structure affirms or contradicts cultural norms around alcohol. JB

4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
744 Relationships Institutional Lawyer-client
1134 Actions Work Lawyering

Performing any sort of work as an attorney at law. JW

4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
4753 Cultural Issues Religion Lay preacher
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
822 Relationships Hierarchical Leader
976 Actions Interaction, Social Leadership
3846 Environment Natural Leaf / leaves
5395 Cultural Issues History League of Nations
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
3517 Actions Mental Learning
2155 Cultural Issues Sexuality Learning about

This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP

2206 Themes and Motifs Psychological Learning disability
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2094 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving home
4052 Actions Work Leaving work
4158 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Leda and the Swan
4115 Cultural Issues Economy Ledger
1731 Themes and Motifs Texts Ledger
2661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lee, Robert Edward
5659 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical LeFlore, Greenwood
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
3361 Cultural Issues Food Leftovers
2202 Cultural Issues Slavery Legacy after emancipation

Refers to when a text alludes to the legacy of slavery years (or decades) after the end of slavery. It was created to tag the references to "sold my Benjamin" in "Go Down, Moses" - a story whose very title alludes to slavery. JBP

1086 Actions (First level term) Legal
5547 Cultural Issues Law Legal advice
1249 Cultural Issues Law Legal authority
5297 Aesthetics Language Legal definitions
1232 Cultural Issues Law Legal document
4049 Cultural Issues Law Legal fine
1011 Cultural Issues Law Legal issue
5298 Cultural Issues Law Legal ownership
648 Actions Moral Legal surrender
3347 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Legends in American history
3021 Cultural Issues Government Legislative action
3992 Themes and Motifs Body Legs
3316 Actions Economic Lending Money
5716 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lenin, Vladimir
4474 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Leprosy
4475 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Leprosy
3806 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Lethe
788 Themes and Motifs Objects Letter
1494 Actions Communication Letter
1705 Themes and Motifs Texts Letter of protest
1343 Themes and Motifs Texts Letters
3906 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Lexington, Virginia
2578 Cultural Issues Politics Liberal

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB

1695 Themes and Motifs Values Liberty
3920 Themes and Motifs Appearance Librarian look
789 Environment Domestic Space Library
733 Environment Place Library
5597 Themes and Motifs Objects License Plate
3821 Environment Natural Lichen / fungi
3766 Cultural Issues Education Life after graduation
1352 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Life as repetition
3147 Actions Physical Lifting
728 Environment Atmospheric Light
5601 Cultural Issues Technology Lighting

For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP

1222 Themes and Motifs Animals Lightning bugs
3303 Themes and Motifs Death Like death
2693 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Lilith
3221 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Lilith
5656 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lilliput
5515 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Limbourg, Belgium
3419 Themes and Motifs Death Liminal

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP

3833 Themes and Motifs Meaning Limitations of words / language
3652 Actions Movement Limousine
4411 Actions Bodily Limping
1441 Actions Movement Limping
2326 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lincoln, Abraham
3217 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lind, Jenny
2795 Themes and Motifs Animals Lion
2794 Actions Hunting Lion hunting
3990 Themes and Motifs Body Lips
3510 Aesthetics Style List
944 Actions Verbal Listen
697 Actions Perceptual Listening
4315 Actions Communication Listening
4670 Themes and Motifs Art Lithographs
3271 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Little sister
2055 Actions Work Livery stable
2010 Environment Place Livery stable
4907 Cultural Issues Agriculture Livestock

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