Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
2435 Cultural Issues Clothes Silk
843 Themes and Motifs Objects Silver
4120 Themes and Motifs Money Silver dollar
4968 Cultural Issues History Silver Shirts
4559 Themes and Motifs Objects Silverware
1938 Themes and Motifs Appearance Similarity
608 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Simile
682 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Simile-mask
4366 Themes and Motifs Time Simultaneity of time
1780 Cultural Issues Religion Sin
2087 Actions Verbal Singing
1402 Actions Bodily Singing
5201 Environment Auditory Siren
922 Relationships Familial Sister-sister
1408 Actions Bodily Sitting
2783 Actions Physical Sitting
1987 Environment Domestic Space Sitting room
1903 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Skeleton
2146 Actions Mental Skepticism
3582 Themes and Motifs Body Skin
4145 Cultural Issues Clothes Skirt
2595 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Skull
2863 Themes and Motifs Objects Skull
3544 Environment Natural Sky
3356 Cultural Issues Progress Skyscraper
4221 Aesthetics Language Slang, military
3378 Actions Violent Slapping
1466 Actions Hunting Slave hunting
5608 Environment Place Slave market
2026 Environment Place Slave Quarters
306 Cultural Issues Slavery Slave trading
248 Cultural Issues (First level term) Slavery
289 Cultural Issues Slavery Slaves vs masters
297 Cultural Issues Slavery Slaves vs poor whites
663 Actions Bodily Sleeping
2757 Actions Physical Sleeping
2876 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sleeping in same bed

For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP
2999 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Sleeping pill
5336 Actions Bodily Sleeplessness
4600 Actions Bodily Sleepy
1455 Themes and Motifs Objects Slipper
2998 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Slipping out at night

I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP
4027 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Slot machine
4505 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Smallpox
2978 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Smelled like trees
2800 Actions Bodily Smelling
498 Actions Perceptual Smelling
4450 Environment Olfactory Smelling black
2240 Environment Olfactory Smelling death
2930 Environment Olfactory Smelling trees
3575 Environment Olfactory Smelling water
4569 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Smith, Al
5111 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Smith, Thorne
4540 Environment Olfactory Smoke
3780 Cultural Issues Progress Smoke stack
2027 Environment Place Smokehouse
802 Actions Bodily Smoking
4743 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Smoking habit
5468 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Smollett, Tobias
1590 Themes and Motifs Animals Snake
2618 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Snake
2098 Actions Movement Sneaking
4922 Aesthetics Language snicksnicksnick...
664 Relationships Social Snobbery
1357 Cultural Issues Class Snopesism
3468 Actions Bodily Snoring
2747 Environment Weather Snow
4567 Themes and Motifs Objects Soap
2988 Cultural Issues Alcohol Sobriety
4978 Cultural Issues Progress Social
405 Relationships (First level term) Social
4603 Actions Verbal Social criticism
5600 Cultural Issues Class Social decline
3020 Themes and Motifs Money Social force
676 Themes and Motifs Community Social life
3452 Cultural Issues Class Social mobility
4646 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Social order|disorder
4969 Relationships Social Social organizations
2422 Actions Interaction, Social Social protest
3089 Relationships Marital Social respectability
2107 Cultural Issues Group Mentality Social Shaming
275 Cultural Issues Slavery Social value
2456 Cultural Issues Religion Social welfare as substitute
1358 Cultural Issues Prejudice Socio-economic
2885 Cultural Issues Clothes Socks
4781 Cultural Issues Food Soda
1176 Cultural Issues Agriculture Soil quality
709 Cultural Issues Identity, Personal Soldier
3746 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sole owner and proprietor
2585 Cultural Issues Race Solidarity

Whenever characters feel a relationship or shared purpose with another character due to racial affinity. In the specific example, Lucius imagines that Ned and Minnie have some type of relationship because they are both African-American (117). JB
2592 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitary
2030 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitude
4611 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Solomon
2358 Themes and Motifs Character Sophistication
2369 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Soul / Spirit
2607 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sound of a gunshot
4353 Environment Auditory Sound of drums
3478 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South America
3653 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South Bend, Indiana
3307 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South Carolina

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