Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
5114 Themes and Motifs Determinism Gendered
1153 Aesthetics Description Character portrait
1204 Aesthetics Description Eyes
1973 Aesthetics Description Tableau
2270 Aesthetics Description Animate/Inanimate
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
3056 Aesthetics Description Stage direction
3144 Aesthetics Description Color red
3421 Aesthetics Description Delayed decoding

Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
3583 Aesthetics Description Color brown
3584 Aesthetics Description Color of leaf tobacco
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3786 Aesthetics Description Color green
3822 Aesthetics Description Color gray
3873 Aesthetics Description Color yellow
3897 Aesthetics Description Color white
3961 Aesthetics Description Color pink
4075 Aesthetics Description Color lilac
4215 Aesthetics Description Location portrait
4507 Aesthetics Description Color maroon
4508 Aesthetics Description Color purple
5243 Aesthetics Description Grotesque
5736 Aesthetics Description Color black
844 Themes and Motifs Death Future
931 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral
945 Themes and Motifs Death Response to
985 Themes and Motifs Death Indian burial practices
988 Themes and Motifs Death Execution
1349 Themes and Motifs Death In childbirth
1350 Themes and Motifs Death Car accident
1537 Themes and Motifs Death Suicide
1788 Themes and Motifs Death Corpse
1790 Themes and Motifs Death Coffin
2073 Themes and Motifs Death Animal Dog
2082 Themes and Motifs Death Animal bear
2229 Themes and Motifs Death Murder
2232 Themes and Motifs Death Afterlife
2257 Themes and Motifs Death Deathbed
2265 Themes and Motifs Death Burial
2699 Themes and Motifs Death Eulogy
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP
2878 Themes and Motifs Death Hearse
2910 Themes and Motifs Death Animal horse
2911 Themes and Motifs Death Bones
2980 Themes and Motifs Death Death sentence
3099 Themes and Motifs Death Anticipation of death
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
3303 Themes and Motifs Death Like death
3332 Themes and Motifs Death Death by water / Drowning
3419 Themes and Motifs Death Liminal

For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP
3518 Themes and Motifs Death Preparing for death
3717 Themes and Motifs Death Funeral pyre / cremation
3721 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to living
3841 Themes and Motifs Death Dying wish
3842 Themes and Motifs Death Compared to sleep
3861 Themes and Motifs Death Respect
3917 Themes and Motifs Death Killing oneself slowly
4335 Themes and Motifs Death Epitaph
4408 Themes and Motifs Death Disease
4428 Themes and Motifs Death And inheritance
4440 Themes and Motifs Death Plane accident
4462 Themes and Motifs Death Denial
4535 Themes and Motifs Death Animal mule
4677 Themes and Motifs Death Imagined
4746 Themes and Motifs Death Spousal
4747 Themes and Motifs Death Ambiguous circumstances
4790 Themes and Motifs Death Moving a dead body
4886 Themes and Motifs Death Suspicious
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
4997 Themes and Motifs Death Child
5352 Themes and Motifs Death Of parent
5694 Themes and Motifs Death Burial society
1730 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity America and opportunity
1896 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity North vs South
2388 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Puritan
2447 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Anglophile
3031 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Lost Cause
3195 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity American
3207 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Multiculturalism
3661 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Country vs city
3663 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Southern identity
4698 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Jewish
4745 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Outlander
4819 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Trans-regional
4849 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Savagism
5375 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity And nationality
592 Cultural Issues Crime Theft|Robbery
596 Cultural Issues Crime Forgery
722 Cultural Issues Crime Bootlegging
750 Cultural Issues Crime Murder
940 Cultural Issues Crime Breaking and entering
968 Cultural Issues Crime Making whisky
969 Cultural Issues Crime Manslaughter
990 Cultural Issues Crime Penalty for
1424 Cultural Issues Crime Vigilantism

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR
1746 Cultural Issues Crime Gambling
1747 Cultural Issues Crime Vagrancy

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