Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
4654 Actions Movement Taxi
4793 Actions Movement Traffic
4832 Actions Movement Wrong direction
4889 Actions Movement Stopping
5080 Actions Movement Flat tire
5361 Actions Movement Hitch-hiking
5432 Actions Movement Aviation
5658 Actions Movement Canoe
580 Themes and Motifs Naming Nickname
846 Themes and Motifs Naming Indian name
1166 Themes and Motifs Naming Named for historical figure
1210 Themes and Motifs Naming False name
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
1702 Themes and Motifs Naming Place name
1783 Themes and Motifs Naming Alias
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
2411 Themes and Motifs Naming Promotional
2433 Themes and Motifs Naming Change over time
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
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
3060 Themes and Motifs Naming And caste
3197 Themes and Motifs Naming Nicknames
3621 Themes and Motifs Naming Long name
3625 Themes and Motifs Naming French noble names
4123 Themes and Motifs Naming Wrong name
4951 Themes and Motifs Naming Brand name
4952 Themes and Motifs Naming Commercial origins
5529 Themes and Motifs Naming As tribute
487 Aesthetics Narrative First-person vernacular
488 Aesthetics Narrative First-person vernacular passim
490 Aesthetics Narrative First-person
494 Aesthetics Narrative First-person passim
504 Aesthetics Narrative First-person plural passim
586 Aesthetics Narrative Communal narrative
613 Aesthetics Narrative Indeterminacy
668 Aesthetics Narrative Temporal projection

When the narrative gets ahead of itself, for example in "Race at Morning" Event 305.1 begins "Then we seen him for the first time," but that does not actually happen until two Events later, 305.3, "and then suddenly . . . the buck hisself" (305). It doesn't matter whether the narrative is looking forward a dozen sentences or a hundred pages, whenever it explicitly anticipates something that it won't actually depict until a later Event, it's "Temporal projection." SR
982 Aesthetics Narrative Repetition
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
1139 Aesthetics Narrative Self-correction

When the narrator corrects, or significantly qualifies, an immediately preceding statement or account. JW
1186 Aesthetics Narrative Collaborative narration

Any time multiple characters or voices participate in relating a story. JW
1364 Aesthetics Narrative Pause
1470 Aesthetics Narrative Conversation with oneself
1637 Aesthetics Narrative Epiphany
1638 Aesthetics Narrative Anti-climax
1639 Aesthetics Narrative Withholding
1650 Aesthetics Narrative Self-Reflective
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
1687 Aesthetics Narrative Parentheses
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.
1805 Aesthetics Narrative Imagined conversation

When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR
1852 Aesthetics Narrative Commentary
1901 Aesthetics Narrative Anticipation
1975 Aesthetics Narrative Second-person directed

Whenever the narrator of the text refers to "you" as a specific subject or auditor, as is the case with Lucius II referring to Lucius III in the Reivers. This is slightly more nuanced than storytelling, which is generic. Instead this is a narrative crafted with a particular auditor in mind.
1989 Aesthetics Narrative Revision
2015 Aesthetics Narrative Reconstructed
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
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
2096 Aesthetics Narrative Chronological enjambment

When the narrative apposes two chronologically distant moments in a single sentence, right on top of each other.
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
2211 Aesthetics Narrative Unreliable narrator
2212 Aesthetics Narrative Stream of consciousness narration
2315 Aesthetics Narrative Summary
2611 Aesthetics Narrative Fantasy

Whenever a narrator engages in an event that she or he knows to be pure fantasy or wish fulfillment. JC
2697 Aesthetics Narrative Perspective
2849 Aesthetics Narrative Free indirect discourse
2982 Aesthetics Narrative Theatrical effect
3038 Aesthetics Narrative Foreshadowing
3081 Aesthetics Narrative Revisionary
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
3122 Aesthetics Narrative Origin
3131 Aesthetics Narrative First-person passim throughout section
3215 Aesthetics Narrative Alternative story
3368 Aesthetics Narrative Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
3369 Aesthetics Narrative Resumption of sentence after interruption
3404 Aesthetics Narrative Irony
3521 Aesthetics Narrative African-American folk sayings
3561 Aesthetics Narrative Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
4062 Aesthetics Narrative Adage
4107 Aesthetics Narrative Suspense
4165 Aesthetics Narrative Reported narration passim
4178 Aesthetics Narrative Reported narration passim in section
4351 Aesthetics Narrative Gaps
4382 Aesthetics Narrative Narrative anomaly
4395 Aesthetics Narrative Narrative shift
4445 Aesthetics Narrative Temporal discontinuity

When narrative relates events in achronological order, i.e. event3 followed by event1 followed by event2, etc. Cf. opening paragraph of Sanctuary. SR
4612 Aesthetics Narrative Cyclical
4700 Aesthetics Narrative Under oath
4868 Aesthetics Narrative Disruption
4921 Aesthetics Narrative Background
4958 Aesthetics Narrative Argument
4982 Aesthetics Narrative Unidentified character
5228 Aesthetics Narrative Child's perspective
5270 Aesthetics Narrative Suspended|Resumed
5738 Aesthetics Narrative Flash forward
960 Cultural Issues Nationality Japanese
1257 Cultural Issues Nationality American
1567 Cultural Issues Nationality Old vs New World
3928 Cultural Issues Nationality Immigration|Immigrants
3936 Cultural Issues Nationality Foreigners

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