Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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1575 | Relationships | Interracial | Romantic | |
3557 | Relationships | Friendship | School classmates | |
3086 | Relationships | Marital | Secrecy | |
1328 | Relationships | Marital | Separated | |
482 | Relationships | (First level term) | Sexual | |
3104 | Relationships | Romantic | Sexual | |
560 | Relationships | Marital | Shotgun marriage | |
620 | Relationships | Familial | Sibling | |
4131 | Relationships | Interracial | Siblings | |
922 | Relationships | Familial | Sister-sister | |
664 | Relationships | Social | Snobbery | |
405 | Relationships | (First level term) | Social | |
4969 | Relationships | Social | Social organizations | |
3089 | Relationships | Marital | Social respectability | |
1013 | Relationships | Marital | Spousal privilege | |
3837 | Relationships | Familial | Stepparent-child | |
4552 | Relationships | Marital | Strife | |
5285 | Relationships | Familial | Support|Neglect | |
1562 | Relationships | Familial | Surrogate | |
741 | Relationships | Hierarchical | Teacher-student | |
5112 | Relationships | Economical | Trustee-ward | |
2417 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Tutor-student | |
1953 | Relationships | Familial | Twins | |
4159 | Relationships | Familial | Uncertain relationship | |
496 | Relationships | Familial | Uncle-nephew | |
2444 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Uncle-nephew | |
2974 | Relationships | Familial | Uncle-niece | |
2947 | Relationships | Romantic | Unrequited | |
1334 | Relationships | Marital | Vicarious wedding | |
4058 | Relationships | Marital | Violence | |
2754 | Relationships | Civic | Voting | |
3094 | Relationships | Marital | Wedding | |
946 | Relationships | Interracial | White-black | |
4285 | Relationships | Familial | Widower | |
2704 | Relationships | Interspecies | Woman-horse | |
1202 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | "Wait" |
Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW |
910 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Abandonment | |
2880 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Abrupt shift in time |
For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F. |
1327 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence | |
617 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as disguise |
This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR |
1331 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as loss | |
5275 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as presence | |
4512 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence of sound | |
358 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Absence/Loss | |
2604 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Absurdity | |
1689 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Accident | |
4419 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Accounts | |
517 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Advent | |
5401 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Aesthetic experience | |
3798 | Themes and Motifs | Art | African American music | |
626 | Themes and Motifs | Community | African-American | |
2232 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Afterlife | |
3214 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Air gun | |
3252 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Airplane | |
1459 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Alarm |
This is whenever a character arrives or departs to communicate a message of alarm. JB |
1783 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Alias | |
2331 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Alienation | |
4447 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Alienation from nature | |
3010 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Alligators | |
3448 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Aloneness |
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP |
4747 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Ambiguous circumstances | |
538 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Ambitious | |
5519 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Amoral | |
2236 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Anchovies | |
4741 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | And an animal | |
3060 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | And caste | |
4950 | Themes and Motifs | Time | And change | |
5377 | Themes and Motifs | Art | And civilization | |
4428 | Themes and Motifs | Death | And inheritance | |
3193 | Themes and Motifs | Past | And monuments | |
2082 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal bear | |
2073 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal Dog | |
2910 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal horse | |
4535 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal mule | |
364 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Animals | |
4847 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Anthropological | |
2749 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Anticipation | |
3099 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Anticipation of death | |
1615 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Antlers | |
2379 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Ants | |
3455 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Anxiety about|Resistance to change | |
4216 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apotheosis | |
4209 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apparition | |
1090 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Appearance | |
631 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Appearance-plain | |
3738 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Apple tree | |
3145 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Arm | |
1667 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Arrival | |
2503 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | |
362 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Arrivals/Departures | |
363 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Art | |
2022 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Artist | |
3444 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Artistic creation | |
5231 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | As character | |
3059 | Themes and Motifs | Past | As explanatory | |
3103 | Themes and Motifs | Money | As motive | |
4513 | Themes and Motifs | Money | As symbol |
I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW |
5529 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | As tribute | |
2865 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Assertive | |
4831 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Attacked |