Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
Term![]() |
Description |
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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 | |
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 |