Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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4755 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Entropy | |
4335 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Epitaph | |
4441 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Epitaph | |
1305 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Estranged | |
2398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Eternal feminine | |
2700 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Eternity | |
536 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Ethics | |
2699 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Eulogy | |
4758 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | European in U.S. | |
3065 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Evil | |
2402 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Evolution | |
3278 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Excrement | |
988 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Execution | |
372 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Exile | |
3350 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Existentialism | |
1789 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Expenses | |
4918 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Explaining | |
2161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Eyeglasses | |
3740 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Eyelashes | |
584 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Eyes | |
629 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Face | |
3162 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Failure to defend honor | |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
2408 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Faith | |
2172 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Faithfulness |
Faithfulness as a general virtue, synonymous with fidelity and/or loyalty (unless others think those merit a separate keyword entry). Wasn't sure if this should go here or go also or instead under Actions > Emotions. JBP |
1210 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | False name | |
2857 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Family history | |
4476 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Family honor | |
4250 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Family values |
Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP |
2466 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fan | |
4205 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Farming tools | |
1927 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fatality | |
2532 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Fated |
Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR |
3279 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Father said | |
3942 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Fatness / obesity | |
4434 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Feminine | |
530 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fence | |
5253 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fiddle | |
1252 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Filthy lucre |
When money elicits moral contempt: as tainted, corrupting, compromised, beneath one. JW |
3554 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Fingers | |
1112 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fire | |
875 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fire on the hearth | |
1986 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fireflies | |
4510 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Firewood | |
2269 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fish | |
2958 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fish | |
3857 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fish trout | |
2950 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fishing rod | |
2651 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fixation |
The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC |
2208 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flag | |
4423 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flashlight | |
3333 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flat-iron | |
3665 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fleas | |
1261 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Flesh | |
3750 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flower orchid | |
2084 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers | |
3292 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Dogwood | |
5160 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers larkspur | |
3291 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Milkweed | |
3287 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Roses | |
3246 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folk customs | |
3133 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folklore | |
727 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Fool|Foolishness | |
3301 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Foot / Feet | |
2028 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Footprint | |
2020 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Forbearance | |
3996 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Forehead | |
2112 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Forgetting | |
914 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fox | |
2464 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fox-horn | |
1006 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Freedom | |
3093 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Freedom from it | |
5559 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Freedom of choice | |
3625 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | French noble names | |
1080 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Frogs | |
1932 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Frozen / Static | |
931 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Funeral | |
3717 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Funeral pyre / cremation | |
645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Furniture | |
374 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Futility | |
844 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Future | |
2051 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Future | |
2403 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Gambler | |
2581 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Gamecock | |
2537 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Gasoline |
Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB |
5595 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Gathering | |
1032 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Gaze | |
3261 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Geese | |
5114 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Gendered | |
5382 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Generous | |
4878 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Genetic | |
5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
4257 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Getting away | |
1883 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Ghost | |
3149 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Gift of money | |
4537 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Giraffe | |
4399 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Glory | |
1201 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Goat | |
1256 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going fast | |
785 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going to Texas |