Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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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). |
2948 | Cultural Issues | Race | Black family working for white | |
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 |
3116 | Cultural Issues | Race | Black incarceration | |
996 | Cultural Issues | Race | Black property ownership | |
1500 | Cultural Issues | Race | Black stereotype | |
4140 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Black women | |
3880 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Blackguard | |
3101 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Blackmail | |
2778 | Actions | Moral | Blackmail | |
1078 | Environment | Public | Blacksmith | |
885 | Actions | Work | Blacksmith | |
5000 | Environment | Place | Blacksmith shop | |
1602 | Actions | Economic | Blacksmithing | |
4640 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Blackstone | |
3416 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Blame | |
3531 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Blanket | |
5286 | Environment | Atmospheric | Bleak | |
953 | Actions | Bodily | Bleeding | |
5240 | Relationships | Familial | Blended | |
4308 | Actions | Verbal | Bless | |
4458 | Cultural Issues | Religion | Blessing | |
3248 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Blind | |
2302 | Actions | Bodily | Blinking | |
1560 | Aesthetics | Symbolism | Blood | |
1623 | Cultural Issues | Class | Blood | |
680 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Blood | |
2370 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Bloom | |
1620 | Actions | Hunting | Blowing horn | |
5398 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Blue Ridge Mountains | |
2187 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Bluebeard | |
4509 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bluejays | |
4078 | Actions | Perceptual | Blurring | |
3803 | Actions | Bodily | Blushing | |
1371 | Environment | Domestic Space | Boarding house | |
2070 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Boat | |
4898 | Environment | Auditory | Boat | |
928 | Actions | Movement | Boat | |
3283 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | Boat race | |
342 | Actions | (First level term) | Bodily | |
1640 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Body | |
365 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Body | |
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 |
5491 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bomb-sight | |
5516 | Cultural Issues | War | Bombing | |
1869 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Bonaparte, Napoleon | |
3313 | Actions | Legal | Bonding | |
2911 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Bones | |
1657 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Bonnet | |
3076 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Book of life | |
3457 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bookishness | |
2452 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Books | |
3039 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Booksatchel | |
5053 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Boon shoots Negro | |
4932 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Boone, Daniel | |
3498 | Actions | Work | Boot-black / Shoe shine | |
3479 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Booth, William | |
569 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Bootlegging | |
853 | Actions | Economic | Bootlegging | |
3932 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Bootlegging | |
722 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Bootlegging | |
2225 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Boots | |
2558 | Environment | Olfactory | Bordello | |
4848 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Borneo | |
1453 | Actions | Economic | Borrowing | |
2248 | Relationships | Interracial | Boss-employee | |
2238 | Relationships | Commercial | Boss-underling | |
3733 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Boston, Massachusetts | |
2469 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bottle | |
5221 | Environment | Place | Boundary | |
2905 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bow and arrow | |
3563 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Bowels | |
3138 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bowl | |
1829 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Boxers Dempsey and Tunney | |
1828 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Boxers Sullivan and Kilrain | |
4016 | Actions | Violent | Boxing | |
1842 | Actions | Verbal | Bragging | |
2615 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Brain / mind | |
4951 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Brand name | |
941 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Brass | |
4259 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bravado | |
3668 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bravery | |
2673 | Cultural Issues | Food | Bread | |
865 | Cultural Issues | Food | Breakfast | |
2714 | Environment | Time of Day | Breakfast | |
5186 | Actions | Physical | Breaking | |
940 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Breaking and entering | |
1614 | Actions | Hunting | Breaking camp | |
4020 | Actions | Interaction, Private | Breaking marriage engagement | |
4141 | Relationships | Marital | Breakup | |
3998 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Breast | |
4056 | Actions | Bodily | Breastfeeding | |
1949 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Breath | |
1428 | Environment | Auditory | Breathing | |
1444 | Actions | Bodily | Breathing | |
4009 | Actions | Hunting | Breeding | |
3427 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Geographical | Brest | |
2584 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Bribe |
Any payoff to law enforcement or other institution to circumvent the strictures of the law. In The Reivers Lucius Priest refers to this as "blackmail" (112). This is meant ironically. JB |
3774 | Actions | Economic | Bribing | |
3177 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bricks |