Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
2723 Actions Movement Hot-air balloon
3339 Actions Movement Hurrying
3735 Actions Movement Interurban streetcar / trolley
3652 Actions Movement Limousine
1441 Actions Movement Limping
3489 Actions Movement Marching
3607 Actions Movement Matching / Paralleling
2701 Actions Movement Migration
1128 Actions Movement Mule
2541 Actions Movement Ox
4032 Actions Movement Procession
1941 Actions Movement Racing
1738 Actions Movement Random
834 Actions Movement Return
1230 Actions Movement Riding
1914 Actions Movement Running
1601 Actions Movement Running away
4347 Actions Movement Ship
2098 Actions Movement Sneaking
1917 Actions Movement Spitting
2517 Actions Movement Steamboat
4889 Actions Movement Stopping
2557 Actions Movement Streetcar
2550 Actions Movement Surrey
1749 Actions Movement Swimming
4654 Actions Movement Taxi
4793 Actions Movement Traffic
1763 Actions Movement Train
2048 Actions Movement Truck
497 Actions Movement Wagon
704 Actions Movement Walking
4832 Actions Movement Wrong direction
1783 Themes and Motifs Naming Alias
3060 Themes and Motifs Naming And caste
5529 Themes and Motifs Naming As tribute
4951 Themes and Motifs Naming Brand name
2433 Themes and Motifs Naming Change over time
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
4952 Themes and Motifs Naming Commercial origins
1210 Themes and Motifs Naming False name
3625 Themes and Motifs Naming French noble names
1832 Themes and Motifs Naming Importance of naming

When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP
846 Themes and Motifs Naming Indian name
3621 Themes and Motifs Naming Long name
1166 Themes and Motifs Naming Named for historical figure
580 Themes and Motifs Naming Nickname
3197 Themes and Motifs Naming Nicknames
2871 Themes and Motifs Naming Not knowing person or thing's name

For occasions when a narrative draws attention to a character forgetting or not knowing the word or name of someone or something - Benjy being raised not to know his mother's name in Sound and Fury, for instance, or when Joe Christmas can't think at first of what it is he is eating until he remembers "It's peas." -JBP
1702 Themes and Motifs Naming Place name
2411 Themes and Motifs Naming Promotional
1417 Themes and Motifs Naming Renaming

When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR
1550 Themes and Motifs Naming Using Indians as names
4123 Themes and Motifs Naming Wrong name
4062 Aesthetics Narrative Adage
3521 Aesthetics Narrative African-American folk sayings
3215 Aesthetics Narrative Alternative story
1638 Aesthetics Narrative Anti-climax
1901 Aesthetics Narrative Anticipation
4958 Aesthetics Narrative Argument
4921 Aesthetics Narrative Background
5228 Aesthetics Narrative Child's perspective
2096 Aesthetics Narrative Chronological enjambment

When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other.
1186 Aesthetics Narrative Collaborative narration

Any time multiple characters or voices participate in relating a story. JW
1852 Aesthetics Narrative Commentary
586 Aesthetics Narrative Communal narrative
1016 Aesthetics Narrative Conjectural narration

This is the term I came up with to describe situations where the narrator (I was thinking mainly of anonymous narrators) uses phrases like "perhaps," "probably," "might," "maybe" to weaken the certainty or authority of what's being narrated. Where, that is, the narrator hedges his bets. JW
3088 Aesthetics Narrative Contested

I created this to capture scenes when two or more characters interrupt each other's attempt to create a narrative - specifically, in the context of the way Gavin (and sometimes the Governor) seize on parts of Temple's story that she would rather not dwell on. SR
1470 Aesthetics Narrative Conversation with oneself
4612 Aesthetics Narrative Cyclical
1751 Aesthetics Narrative Delayed revelation

Any time in a narrative where something happens, but the exact nature of the event is not revealed till some time later. Faulkner uses this technique quite often. The example here is from Monk, where Monk had apparently been living in a house for several months, but the town does not find out about it until months later.
4868 Aesthetics Narrative Disruption
1637 Aesthetics Narrative Epiphany
2611 Aesthetics Narrative Fantasy

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC
490 Aesthetics Narrative First-person
494 Aesthetics Narrative First-person passim
3131 Aesthetics Narrative First-person passim throughout section
504 Aesthetics Narrative First-person plural passim
487 Aesthetics Narrative First-person vernacular
488 Aesthetics Narrative First-person vernacular passim
3038 Aesthetics Narrative Foreshadowing
1659 Aesthetics Narrative Frame

Though somewhat obvious, this refers to a "nested" narrative where a story is told by someone to someone else. The example here is the opening of The Reivers, where the entire text is framed as being told to Lucius III by Lucius II. JB
2849 Aesthetics Narrative Free indirect discourse
4351 Aesthetics Narrative Gaps
1805 Aesthetics Narrative Imagined conversation

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR
613 Aesthetics Narrative Indeterminacy
3404 Aesthetics Narrative Irony
3368 Aesthetics Narrative Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
3561 Aesthetics Narrative Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
4382 Aesthetics Narrative Narrative anomaly
4395 Aesthetics Narrative Narrative shift
3122 Aesthetics Narrative Origin
1687 Aesthetics Narrative Parentheses
1364 Aesthetics Narrative Pause
2697 Aesthetics Narrative Perspective
2085 Aesthetics Narrative Present-time reference

For when a character switches from past-tense narration (about past events) to refer to the present time and/or how he/she feels "now." -JBP
2182 Aesthetics Narrative Quotation as thought

For when a text says a character "thinks" or "thought" something - often as a passage in quotation marks but also sometimes in italics. In those cases, perhaps the "Italics" keyword should also be applied. JBP
2015 Aesthetics Narrative Reconstructed
982 Aesthetics Narrative Repetition
2081 Aesthetics Narrative Reported narration

For when a character reports what some other character has told him/her about something that has happened - typically for things that the narrator was not present to see in person. -JBP
4165 Aesthetics Narrative Reported narration passim

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