Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort ascending Description
1657 Cultural Issues Clothes Bonnet
2911 Themes and Motifs Death Bones
3313 Actions Legal Bonding
1869 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bonaparte, Napoleon
5516 Cultural Issues War Bombing
5491 Themes and Motifs Objects Bomb-sight
3344 Environment Natural Body of water

For when a text refers to a pond, lake, or sea (as in Sea of Galilee or other inland bodies of water). JBP

1640 Cultural Issues Gender Body
365 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Body
342 Actions (First level term) Bodily
3283 Cultural Issues Entertainment Boat race
2070 Themes and Motifs Objects Boat
4898 Environment Auditory Boat
928 Actions Movement Boat
1371 Environment Domestic Space Boarding house
3803 Actions Bodily Blushing
4078 Actions Perceptual Blurring
4509 Themes and Motifs Animals Bluejays
2187 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Bluebeard
5398 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Blue Ridge Mountains
1620 Actions Hunting Blowing horn
2370 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Bloom
1560 Aesthetics Symbolism Blood
1623 Cultural Issues Class Blood
680 Themes and Motifs Body Blood
2302 Actions Bodily Blinking
3248 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Blind
4458 Cultural Issues Religion Blessing
4308 Actions Verbal Bless
5240 Relationships Familial Blended
953 Actions Bodily Bleeding
5286 Environment Atmospheric Bleak
3531 Cultural Issues Clothes Blanket
3416 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Blame
4640 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Blackstone
1602 Actions Economic Blacksmithing
5000 Environment Place Blacksmith shop
1078 Environment Public Blacksmith
885 Actions Work Blacksmith
3101 Cultural Issues Crime Blackmail
2778 Actions Moral Blackmail
3880 Themes and Motifs Character Blackguard
4140 Cultural Issues Gender Black women
1500 Cultural Issues Race Black stereotype
996 Cultural Issues Race Black property ownership
3116 Cultural Issues Race Black incarceration
5413 Cultural Issues Race Black foresight

Any time a black character appears to have a premonition or intuition about how events will play out. I'm thinking her of Job in "Uncle Willy" who melancholically tags along even though he knows things will end badly. The same could be said for any number of Black servants who are forced to entertain their master's fancies. Dilsey is another example. JB

2948 Cultural Issues Race Black family working for white
5418 Cultural Issues Race Black body

Whenever a Black body is described or there is a touch between a White body and Black body. For example, the unnamed narrator describing Job's body in "Uncle Willy": "he felt like a handful of scrawny dried sticks" (246).

4397 Cultural Issues War Bivouac fires
3748 Cultural Issues Gender Bitch
3011 Themes and Motifs Animals Bison
5677 Cultural Issues Food Biscuits
2338 Cultural Issues Class Birthright
2210 Cultural Issues Food Birthday cake
2209 Cultural Issues Ritual Birthday
4710 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Birth defect
3040 Cultural Issues Sexuality Birth control
3618 Actions Bodily Birth / Being born
4269 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Birmingham, Alabama
2488 Environment Auditory Birdsong
1393 Themes and Motifs Animals Birds
3319 Actions Non-human Bird watching a human
4011 Actions Hunting Bird hunting
3321 Actions Non-human Bird flying
1821 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Bird
5482 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Biloxi, Mississippi
1142 Cultural Issues Law Bill of sale
3674 Themes and Motifs Money Bill
1168 Relationships Marital Bigamy
288 Cultural Issues Slavery Big house vs quarters
4888 Cultural Issues Migration Big Bottom
3709 Actions Verbal Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
4422 Actions Movement Bicycle
293 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical curse
303 Cultural Issues Slavery Biblical analogy
3569 Aesthetics Language Biblical
3323 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Bible verse on sparrows
4331 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Bible verse on children
1388 Themes and Motifs Objects Bible
1471 Cultural Issues Religion Bible
4818 Themes and Motifs Texts Bible
4726 Environment Otherworldly Beyond living world passim
3850 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Beyond

I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP

4310 Actions Emotional Bewilderment
5241 Environment Time of Year Between planting and harvesting
5246 Environment Time of Year Between harvesting and planting
3777 Actions Play Betting
2736 Actions Emotional Betrayal
4085 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Bestial imagery
4392 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bertrand du Guesclin
5673 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Bernhardt, Sarah
3397 Environment Olfactory Benzene
5036 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy's name changed
5204 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy committed
5611 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy castrated
5034 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy accosts schoolgirl
1122 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Benjamin
4340 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Ben-Hur
5169 Cultural Issues Clothes Belt

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