Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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3186 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Burning a town | |
5578 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Buttocks | |
2909 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Buzzards | |
4417 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Camera | |
2198 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Candelabra | |
1268 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Candle | |
4562 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Cannon | |
4563 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cannon | |
4674 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Canteen | |
1385 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Capture as loss | |
670 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Car | |
1350 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Car accident | |
3402 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cards | |
2724 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Carnival | |
906 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Case file | |
4853 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Cash | |
5161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Catechism | |
2722 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Cats | |
593 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Cattle | |
3855 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Cautious | |
745 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Census | |
3066 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chair | |
2340 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chamber pot | |
2034 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chandlier | |
2433 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Change over time | |
1369 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Chaos | |
385 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Chaos/Order | |
366 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Character | |
4656 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Charity | |
2511 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Chasing a person |
For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR |
4675 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chastity belt | |
4119 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Check | |
1739 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Chickens/roosters | |
4997 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Child | |
2684 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Child's name | |
3536 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Childlike | |
3995 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Chins | |
1320 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Chivalry | |
3272 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Christian art or iconography | |
4709 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Christmas card | |
1221 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Cicadas | |
1042 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cigar | |
3800 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cigarette | |
5406 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cigarette lighter | |
4051 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Citizenship papers | |
1678 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Civic records | |
5635 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Classical Greek | |
4720 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Classical music | |
646 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Clock | |
3815 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coal oil | |
1127 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coffee | |
5682 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coffee pot | |
1790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Coffin | |
4679 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coffin | |
3964 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Coin | |
4024 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coin | |
3062 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Collaborative | |
3267 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Collar box | |
2200 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Collecting money |
Added for when Gavin Stevens raises money to pay for the funeral in "Go Down, Moses"; can be used for anytime characters take a collection or otherwise raise money for some cause. JBP |
2237 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Collective memory | |
3703 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Columbus Day | |
2266 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Comforter | |
4952 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Commercial origins | |
571 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Communal mythology | |
368 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Community | |
3721 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Compared to living | |
3842 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Compared to sleep | |
2068 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Compass | |
1243 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Complexion | |
3522 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Condition of heaviness | |
2744 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Condom | |
5301 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Confederate | |
2204 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Confederate monument | |
3598 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Conformity | |
3734 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Confusion | |
2092 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Conscience | |
2938 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Conservatism |
Here conservatism is meant as a value and is politically agnostic. It is roughly being used as prudence, common sense, and tradition all wrapped up in one. JB |
4345 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Constitutive moment | |
5338 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Constitutive moment |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
4214 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Construction tools | |
2013 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Continuity |
Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB |
601 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Control | |
5425 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Conventional | |
4362 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Conviction | |
4815 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Cook book | |
4856 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Cooperation | |
4702 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Corncob | |
1525 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Corpse | |
1788 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Corpse | |
2090 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Cosmetics | |
684 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Courage | |
3671 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Courteous | |
2741 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Coward | |
2473 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Cows | |
2509 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Creating order | |
1894 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Creation | |
3713 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Crib / Cradle | |
2486 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Crickets | |
1596 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Crowd | |
2904 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Cruel |