Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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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 | |
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 | |
1546 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Crystal | |
5534 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Curmudgeonly | |
3165 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Curtains | |
3079 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cushion | |
4281 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Cyclical | |
2196 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Damask | |
4236 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dark house | |
2343 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dead time | |
5226 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Deadpan | |
370 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Death | |
3332 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Death by water / Drowning | |
4799 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Death certificate | |
2980 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Death sentence | |
2257 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Deathbed | |
3411 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Decoration Day | |
2400 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Decorum | |
1998 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Deed | |
730 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Deer | |
2593 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Demijohn | |
4462 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Denial | |
4573 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Denial | |
2515 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Departing Yoknapatawpha |
For characters who leave Yoknapatawpha once and for all in a text - like Bayard Sartoris at the end of Flags in the Dust or Sarty Snopes in "Barn Burning." SR |
1242 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Departure | |
3845 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Depth / deepness | |
764 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Deracination | |
903 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Desertion-family | |
4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design | |
2183 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Destiny | |
4713 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Destroyed | |
1994 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Determination | |
371 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Determinism | |
2384 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Devotion | |
4683 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dice | |
1531 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Dignity | |
3913 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Diminishment / fading | |
3605 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Dirty | |
1725 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Disappearance | |
3174 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Discovering it | |
5266 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Disdaining money | |
4408 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Disease | |
3426 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Disembodiment | |
5187 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dishes | |
3809 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Dishonor | |
503 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Disorder | |
3012 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Dispossession | |
4188 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Distance from home |
For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR |