Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
473 Cultural Issues (First level term) Materialism
1365 Cultural Issues Gender Maternal impulse
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
1306 Cultural Issues Age Maturing
1107 Themes and Motifs Character Maturity
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
1976 Environment Time of Year May
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
5072 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes McCarron ambushed
723 Environment Place McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
5670 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McClellan, George B.
3231 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical McLaurin
381 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Meaning
5407 Themes and Motifs Money Meaning of
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
2924 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Measles
3515 Themes and Motifs Time Measuring time
2674 Cultural Issues Food Meat
2061 Actions Work Mechanic
2718 Themes and Motifs Objects Medal
3751 Actions Physical Meddling
413 Aesthetics (First level term) Media
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
2397 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Medical / Surgical
1296 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical advice
2037 Environment Place Medical practice

Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB
4266 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medical treatment
3254 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine
4498 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine aspirin
3680 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Medicine camphor
2103 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Melodrama
460 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Memory
589 Environment Place Memphis
5421 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis Junction
2372 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Memphis, Tennessee
805 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Men
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
5134 Actions Domestic Mending
5369 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Menelaus
529 Cultural Issues Labor Menial
5174 Actions Bodily Menstruation
3945 Cultural Issues Gender Menstruation / menstrual cycle
348 Actions (First level term) Mental
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
1521 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental illness
721 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Mental limitations
806 Relationships Intergenerational Mentor-disciple
1262 Cultural Issues Education Mentorship
1263 Relationships Social Mentorship
1264 Relationships Familial Mentorship
1108 Cultural Issues War Mercenary
3032 Aesthetics Metafictional Merging history and fiction
5474 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mesopotamia
4305 Actions Verbal Message
4532 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Messalina
1502 Actions Communication Messenger

Whenever someone comes to deliver a message verbally in person.
484 Aesthetics (First level term) Metafictional
4118 Themes and Motifs Objects Metal detector
1030 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Metaphor
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
1324 Themes and Motifs Animals Metaphorical elephant
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
4909 Environment Atmospheric Meteor shower
2106 Cultural Issues Religion Methodism
2130 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Metonym
2861 Cultural Issues War Mexican
5351 Cultural Issues History Mexican Rebellion
4380 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mexico
4666 Themes and Motifs Animals Mice
3368 Aesthetics Narrative Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
5170 Environment Time of Year Mid-week
3690 Environment Time of Day Midday
624 Cultural Issues Class Middle
4420 Cultural Issues Age Middle age
5229 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Middle Ages
308 Cultural Issues Slavery Middle passage
614 Environment Time of Day Midnight
1089 Cultural Issues (First level term) Migration
2701 Actions Movement Migration
2153 Environment Weather Mild
776 Relationships Institutional Military
349 Actions (First level term) Military
4974 Relationships Interracial Military
2682 Cultural Issues Clothes Military
2329 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Military analogy
4228 Cultural Issues War Military awards
4840 Environment Place Military camp
3023 Themes and Motifs Texts Military communications
3188 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Military defeat
4226 Cultural Issues Education Military education
4626 Themes and Motifs Objects Military equipment
3708 Cultural Issues War Military rank of general
4274 Cultural Issues War Military reassignment
4784 Cultural Issues War Military service

Whenever a character did or did not serve in the military during war. In this case, it is Redmond in The Unvanquished (225), but another example is Percy Grimm. JHB
2156 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Military terminology
2414 Cultural Issues Government Militia muster
5653 Cultural Issues Food Milk
5269 Environment Olfactory Milk
2497 Themes and Motifs Objects Milk
1207 Actions Domestic Milking

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