Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
5130 Environment Place Sheriff's office
5347 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Sherlock Holmes
2602 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sherman, William Tecumseh
4565 Aesthetics Language Shhhh
2660 Aesthetics Tone Shift
3666 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Shiloh
4777 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Shiloh
3428 Themes and Motifs Objects Ship
4347 Actions Movement Ship
3590 Cultural Issues Technology Ship's wheel
5510 Cultural Issues Economy Shipping
3586 Cultural Issues Technology Shipping schooner
3585 Cultural Issues Technology Shipping tugboat
2630 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirt
5321 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtless
3080 Cultural Issues Clothes Shirtsleeves
916 Actions Bodily Shivering
3388 Actions Emotional Shock
1190 Cultural Issues Clothes Shoes
1054 Actions Hunting Shooting
861 Cultural Issues Violence Shooting
1253 Actions Violent Shooting
619 Actions Interaction, Social Shopping
4759 Actions Economic Shopping
1183 Themes and Motifs Objects Shotgun
560 Relationships Marital Shotgun marriage
4187 Environment Auditory Shots
3148 Themes and Motifs Body Shoulder
1061 Actions Verbal Shouting
5158 Themes and Motifs Objects Shovel
4732 Actions Physical Showing
5291 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Showing up
4365 Themes and Motifs Character Shrewdness
4247 Environment Place Shrubbery
620 Relationships Familial Sibling
4131 Relationships Interracial Siblings
3742 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Sick as euphemism for pregnancy
3153 Environment Domestic Space Sick room

Added to denote a room being used or described as for when someone is sick. Added to refer to the "empty" room that is also where the family "has the measles" in S&F, but can be applied in other texts as well -- Addie's room in AILD, for example. -JBP
2613 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Sickness
2765 Environment Public Sidewalk
2376 Aesthetics Metafictional Signs
2877 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Signs / Omen
803 Environment Auditory Silence
1854 Actions Verbal Silence
4425 Actions Communication Silence
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
5675 Environment Time of Day Six o'clock p.m.
5676 Environment Time of Day Six o'clock p.m.
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
5646 Themes and Motifs Objects Slop jar
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

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