Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1387 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Out of ordered place

This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR
1462 Environment Domestic Space Outhouse
4745 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Outlander
2543 Environment Place Outlaw country

On a number of occasions, Faulkner makes reference to stretches of outlaw country. Places where illegal and illicit practices transpire, but there is no enforcement by local or federal authority. This is particular in reference to Frenchman's Bend in the Hamlet, but also Ballenbaugh's historic emergence in the Reivers. JB
886 Actions Emotional Outrage
756 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Over time
1026 Cultural Issues Clothes Overalls
1383 Actions Perceptual Overhearing
3682 Environment Olfactory Oversweet organic

Honeysuckle, but also the blooms from the "heaven tree" in Sanctuary, etc.
4334 Actions Emotional Overwhelmed
2743 Aesthetics Tone Overwrought

This label is as subjective as it is possibly contentious, yet I have created for those instances in which the tone appears too highfalutin, philosophical, or otherwise "fancy" in relation to the subject matter at hand. The specific example, is from The Reivers when Lucius Priest constantly reflects on his younger self in mock-epic fashion to describe his battles with "Virtue". JB
2121 Themes and Motifs Money Owed

This keyword is for when a character claims or otherwise believes he or she is owed money (to repay a debt, as payment for labor, etc.). -JBP
5304 Themes and Motifs Animals Owl
3381 Environment Auditory Owls
282 Cultural Issues Slavery Ownership

For moments in the texts where owning slaves is evoked as a marker of status or wealth, as when Jason Compson connects his family pride to the fact that his ancestors owned slaves. SR
4947 Cultural Issues Land-Use Ownership
939 Themes and Motifs Animals Ownership
5305 Cultural Issues Agriculture Ownership
2541 Actions Movement Ox
2036 Themes and Motifs Animals Oxen
3465 Cultural Issues Education Oxford
3599 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oxford, England
4371 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oxford, Mississippi
1892 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Oxymoron
2830 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Ozarks
5409 Cultural Issues Progress Pace of travel
5410 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Pacific islands
921 Cultural Issues Global Pacific Ocean
2292 Actions Domestic Packing
3380 Environment Domestic Space Paddock
1700 Themes and Motifs Objects Padlock
2561 Environment Place Paducah
4630 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Pain
4731 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Paine, Thomas
4076 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Paint
1544 Themes and Motifs Art Painting
1889 Aesthetics Metafictional Painting
2160 Actions Work Painting|Drawing
5260 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Pan
1027 Cultural Issues Clothes Panama hat
4883 Actions Emotional Panic
5292 Cultural Issues History Panic of 1893
999 Themes and Motifs Animals Panther
2793 Actions Hunting Panther hunting
1586 Actions Bodily Panting
4069 Actions Physical Panting
2569 Cultural Issues Clothes Pants
3146 Themes and Motifs Objects Paper
5097 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Parable
3407 Themes and Motifs Community Parade
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
5539 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Paralysis
1301 Themes and Motifs Psychological Paranoia
1646 Themes and Motifs Objects Parasol
3633 Themes and Motifs Objects Parcel
1766 Actions Legal Pardon
1771 Cultural Issues Law Pardon
2041 Relationships Ancestral Parent's great-grandparent
4486 Relationships Hierarchical Parent-child
1303 Themes and Motifs Past Parental
1687 Aesthetics Narrative Parentheses
2884 Cultural Issues Education Parenting

This word already exists as a private interaction. Here it is intended not as a specific moment of parenting, but rather the cultural norms and practices that are related to parenting. JB
2147 Actions Interaction, Private Parenting
965 Relationships Familial Parents-children
5378 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Paris
4309 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Paris
4719 Environment Place Park
5508 Environment Public Park
3494 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts
1514 Environment Domestic Space Parlor
3924 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Parody
5344 Cultural Issues Law Parole
3769 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Parrot
2586 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Parsham
3190 Actions Economic Partnership
3191 Relationships Economical Partnership
2431 Actions Interaction, Social Partying
4241 Cultural Issues Race Passing
3532 Actions Perceptual Passing from sight
2264 Actions Emotional Passivity
521 Themes and Motifs Time Past
1093 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Past
1322 Themes and Motifs Past Past in present
4206 Themes and Motifs Past Past vs present
4455 Relationships Hierarchical Pastor-congregant
1512 Environment Domestic Space Pasture
2806 Environment Public Pasture

There is already an entry for Domestic Space -> Pasture. This refers to a pasture that is not part of a domestic space. JB
2896 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Patch, Dan
4502 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Patent medicine
828 Relationships Social Paternalism
3820 Themes and Motifs Meaning Paternity
1423 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Pathetic fallacy
2029 Actions Emotional Patience
3937 Relationships Familial Patriarch
1523 Cultural Issues Gender Patriarchy
935 Cultural Issues War Patriotism
4764 Actions Military Patrol
1364 Aesthetics Narrative Pause
5360 Cultural Issues Progress Paving
5513 Environment Place Pawn shop

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