Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
3613 Cultural Issues Religion Sacrilege
2797 Themes and Motifs Objects Saddle
1992 Themes and Motifs Objects Saddlebag
1392 Actions Emotional Sadness
2391 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Saint
3269 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Saint Francis
3351 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Saint Louis Fair of 1904 / Louisiana Purchase Exposition
5506 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Saint Mihiel
5101 Cultural Issues Economy Sales contract
2766 Environment Place Saloon
4822 Themes and Motifs Objects Salt
3678 Cultural Issues Agriculture Salt lick
3693 Actions Physical Saluting
3124 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Salvation
5561 Cultural Issues Religion Salvation
4546 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Samson
5359 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical San Diego, California
5588 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical San Francisco
4144 Environment Natural Sand
2895 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sande, Earl
5642 Cultural Issues Food Sandwich
2573 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Santa Claus

I'm assuming the group of people who both read Faulkner and believe in Santa Claus is relatively small, so saying he is mythical is not a spoiler. JB
1361 Aesthetics Tone Sarcastic
5040 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris builds railroad
5026 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris captures Yankees
5045 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris deposed
5078 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris escapes Yankees
5044 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Sartoris raises regiment
2834 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Saskatchewan
2352 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Satan
4318 Themes and Motifs Objects Satchel
3716 Cultural Issues Ritual Sati or suttee
5086 Aesthetics Language Satire
1281 Actions Emotional Satisfaction
5640 Environment Time of Day Saturday
1757 Environment Time of Year Saturday
5636 Environment Time of Day Saturday evening
5132 Environment Time of Day Saturday morning
4415 Environment Time of Day Saturday night
4849 Cultural Issues Cultural Identity Savagism
5289 Themes and Motifs Money Saving
4521 Actions Economic Saving money
4068 Cultural Issues Economy Savings
4516 Themes and Motifs Objects Saw
1960 Environment Auditory Sawing
2761 Actions Physical Sawing
1198 Environment Place Sawmill
1193 Actions Work Sawmilling
2554 Actions Economic Scamming
1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
5475 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Scandanavia
2145 Themes and Motifs Body Scar
4864 Cultural Issues Food Scarcity
2601 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Scarecrow
1359 Actions Economic Scheming
2282 Actions Moral Scheming

Any action that plots or plans to gain a material or social advantage over someone through immoral means. This is separate from economic scheming, which is often directly tied to a commercial situation. It is also not like deception, because the deception has not happened yet. The specific example is Boon "scheming" to take out the car, but there are other instances of characters ratiocinating or plotting to do so. JB
4112 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Schiller, Friedrich
5536 Themes and Motifs Money Scholarship
3547 Environment Public School
4650 Themes and Motifs Texts School book
3557 Relationships Friendship School classmates
1289 Actions Play School recess
5550 Cultural Issues Education School vs life
3756 Cultural Issues Education School year
4995 Environment Place School, segregated
2140 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Scientific

To be used for figures of speech drawn from science (for example, references to osmosis, astronomy, or Darwinian evolution) - CR
3105 Themes and Motifs Objects Scissors
2478 Actions Emotional Scolding
1808 Cultural Issues War Scorched-earth policy

This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South.
857 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Scotch-Irish
4912 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Scotland
1876 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Scott, Walter
4930 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Scottish / Scots
3896 Themes and Motifs Character Scoundrel
2599 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Scratch
3997 Actions Violent Scratching
1344 Actions Verbal Screaming
3922 Actions Physical Screaming
2223 Themes and Motifs Appearance Scruffiness
729 Themes and Motifs Art Sculpture
4161 Themes and Motifs Objects Scythe
2666 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Scythe
2354 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Scythian
3592 Environment Natural Sea / Ocean
1316 Actions Physical Searching
2453 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Searching
2536 Themes and Motifs Objects Second-hand

These are items that get passed from person to person and re-purposed. Much of this happens in the Snopes family, but there are also other examples. JB
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.
3086 Relationships Marital Secrecy
573 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Secrecy

This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR
1920 Themes and Motifs Community Secrecy
1737 Cultural Issues Government Secrecy
2574 Actions Moral Secret

This is the action of keeping a secret or deciding whether or not to keep a secret. It is not necessarily good or bad, rather keeping a secret is a type of moral choice. Since, this is a singular secret and not a protracted secret, as for example Linda Snopes's parentage, this is placed under moral actions and not themes. JB
2383 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Secret
5358 Cultural Issues Religion Sect
4938 Cultural Issues Crime Sedition
2355 Actions Interaction, Private Seducing
2386 Actions Emotional Seduction
2095 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Seed
1276 Environment Place Seedy parts of town

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