Keywords

Term IDsort ascending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
1986 Themes and Motifs Animals Fireflies
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB
1984 Actions Interaction, Social Concealment

Any time a character hides something from his peer group or society at large. The particular instance here is John Powell concealing his pistol from the men in the livery stable.
1983 Cultural Issues Law Firearms

Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB
1982 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Belatedness
1981 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Personification
1980 Actions Physical Kicking
1979 Relationships Ancestral Great-grandparent
1978 Cultural Issues Entertainment Baseball
1977 Actions Economic Accounting

This does not merely describe the specific actions of an accountant, but any formal or informal balancing of the books be it Flem Snopes, Maury Priest, or Will Varner. JB
1976 Environment Time of Year May
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.
1974 Cultural Issues Law Wanted poster

Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB
1973 Aesthetics Description Tableau
1972 Actions Emotional Resentment
1971 Cultural Issues Religion Piety
1970 Actions Physical Restraining
1969 Actions Violent Arson
1968 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Livestock
1967 Actions Military Escape
1966 Actions Mental Economizing

When a character invests effort in thinking strategically about personal or household economy, such as when Cora Tull attempts to pay for her pricey chickens by selling cakes made with the eggs of those chickens in AILD. EP
1965 Cultural Issues Economy Domestic
1964 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Spacing
1963 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Onomatopoeia
1962 Cultural Issues War Capture
1961 Environment Auditory Carpentry
1960 Environment Auditory Sawing
1959 Aesthetics Style Cubism
1958 Environment Time of Year July
1957 Themes and Motifs Home Homesickness_Longing for home
1956 Actions Verbal Praising
1955 Actions Play Poker
1954 Relationships Familial Brother-brother
1953 Relationships Familial Twins
1952 Actions Physical Carrying
1951 Actions Domestic Housekeeping
1950 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Triumph
1949 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Breath
1948 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Threshold
1947 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Place
1946 Themes and Motifs Objects Phaeton
1945 Cultural Issues Gender Inversion
1944 Actions Perceptual Eavesdropping
1943 Environment Atmospheric Thunder
1942 Environment Public Church
1941 Actions Movement Racing
1940 Cultural Issues Race Stereotype: teeth
1939 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Replica
1938 Themes and Motifs Appearance Similarity
1937 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Tornado
1936 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Djinn
1935 Cultural Issues Religion Sabbath
1934 Themes and Motifs Art Music
1933 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sun / Sunlight
1932 Themes and Motifs Time Frozen / Static
1931 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Cassandra
1930 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Divine intervention
1929 Cultural Issues Religion Institutional
1928 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Heaven
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
1926 Themes and Motifs Character Teetotaler
1925 Themes and Motifs Objects Sword
1924 Themes and Motifs Morals Honor
1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
1922 Actions Moral Renounce
1921 Themes and Motifs Psychological Trauma
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
1919 Actions Verbal Requesting
1918 Environment Domestic Space Deathbed
1917 Actions Movement Spitting
1916 Actions Domestic Discipline
1915 Actions Movement Hiding
1914 Actions Movement Running
1913 Actions Movement Fetching
1912 Relationships Interracial Master-slave
1911 Environment Weather Sunshine
1910 Relationships Familial Dissolution
1909 Cultural Issues Crime Fratricide
1908 Environment Atmospheric Gloom
1907 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Niobe
1906 Themes and Motifs Objects Photograph
1905 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Hell
1904 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Ogre
1903 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Skeleton
1902 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Disease
1901 Aesthetics Narrative Anticipation
1900 Actions Communication Writing
1899 Cultural Issues Clothes Wedding dress
1898 Actions Bodily Starvation
1897 Themes and Motifs Art Poetry
1896 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity North vs South
1895 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Genesis
1894 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creation
1893 Aesthetics Symbolism Hamsa
1892 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Oxymoron
1891 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Chains
1890 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Demon
1889 Aesthetics Metafictional Painting
1888 Aesthetics Style Long sentence
1887 Themes and Motifs Objects Wisteria

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