Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
1709 Themes and Motifs Texts Newspapers
4668 Themes and Motifs Texts Note
5259 Themes and Motifs Texts Notice
3092 Themes and Motifs Texts Novel
4045 Themes and Motifs Texts Plat
5004 Themes and Motifs Texts Poetry
5095 Themes and Motifs Texts Poster
4650 Themes and Motifs Texts School book
3000 Themes and Motifs Texts Telegram
4132 Themes and Motifs Texts Title
4871 Themes and Motifs Texts Translation
4601 Themes and Motifs Texts Treaty
4572 Themes and Motifs Texts Will
2880 Themes and Motifs Time Abrupt shift in time

For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F.
4950 Themes and Motifs Time And change
2749 Themes and Motifs Time Anticipation
3312 Themes and Motifs Time Awareness of time
3166 Themes and Motifs Time Being in time

Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP
3294 Themes and Motifs Time Being late / tardiness
3293 Themes and Motifs Time Being on time / punctuality
3167 Themes and Motifs Time Being outside of time
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
4281 Themes and Motifs Time Cyclical
3513 Themes and Motifs Time Duration of time
1932 Themes and Motifs Time Frozen / Static
2051 Themes and Motifs Time Future
2304 Themes and Motifs Time Just in time

Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB
1812 Themes and Motifs Time Living in the present

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.
2158 Themes and Motifs Time Long passage of time

Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP
4368 Themes and Motifs Time Lost time
3515 Themes and Motifs Time Measuring time
521 Themes and Motifs Time Past
2600 Themes and Motifs Time Permanence
2907 Themes and Motifs Time Return to present time
3463 Themes and Motifs Time Routine
1995 Themes and Motifs Time Running out
2964 Themes and Motifs Time Series of events experienced as long duration
4366 Themes and Motifs Time Simultaneity of time
3346 Themes and Motifs Time Timelessness
2527 Themes and Motifs Time Town clock
795 Themes and Motifs Time Transcended
1549 Themes and Motifs Time Travel back in time
4294 Themes and Motifs Time Unsynchronized clocks
633 Themes and Motifs Time Watch
2874 Themes and Motifs Time Working day
1022 Environment Time of Day Afternoon
2714 Environment Time of Day Breakfast
698 Environment Time of Day Dawn
1856 Environment Time of Day Daybreak
2069 Environment Time of Day Daytime
1433 Environment Time of Day Dinner
1060 Environment Time of Day Dusk
5195 Environment Time of Day Eight o'clock a.m.
5131 Environment Time of Day Eight o'clock p.m.
4787 Environment Time of Day Eleven o'clock
5149 Environment Time of Day Eleven o'clock p.m.
2484 Environment Time of Day Evening
5633 Environment Time of Day Five o'clock p.m.
5684 Environment Time of Day Four o'clock a.m.
5198 Environment Time of Day Four o'clock p.m.
2555 Environment Time of Day Lunch
3690 Environment Time of Day Midday
614 Environment Time of Day Midnight
5641 Environment Time of Day Monday
559 Environment Time of Day Monday morning
492 Environment Time of Day Morning
687 Environment Time of Day Night
5639 Environment Time of Day Nine o'clock a.m.
4184 Environment Time of Day Nine o'clock p.m.
747 Environment Time of Day Noon
3870 Environment Time of Day One o'clock p.m.
636 Environment Time of Day Pre-dawn
5640 Environment Time of Day Saturday
5636 Environment Time of Day Saturday evening
5132 Environment Time of Day Saturday morning
4415 Environment Time of Day Saturday night
5145 Environment Time of Day Seven o'clock p.m.
5675 Environment Time of Day Six o'clock p.m.
5676 Environment Time of Day Six o'clock p.m.
4808 Environment Time of Day Sunday
2710 Environment Time of Day Sunday morning
5191 Environment Time of Day Sunrise
1220 Environment Time of Day Sunset
706 Environment Time of Day Supper
3472 Environment Time of Day Tea
3310 Environment Time of Day Ten o'clock a.m.
5148 Environment Time of Day Ten o'clock p.m.
5194 Environment Time of Day Three o'clock a.m.
500 Environment Time of Day Twilight
5664 Environment Time of Day Two o'clock a.m.
5638 Environment Time of Day Two o'clock p.m.
3057 Environment Time of Day Wee hours
1855 Environment Time of Year April
5320 Environment Time of Year April Fool's
3691 Environment Time of Year August
5246 Environment Time of Year Between harvesting and planting
5241 Environment Time of Year Between planting and harvesting
1197 Environment Time of Year Christmas
2344 Environment Time of Year Christmas Eve
4850 Environment Time of Year Christmas, figuratively

Any time someone refers to Christmas in relation to it being a particularly auspicious day. In this case, it is being used by "Uncle Willy" to describe when he'll be in California (242). JB

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