Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1000 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Vanishing Indian
2025 Themes and Motifs Character Vanity
2719 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vardaman, James K.
3431 Themes and Motifs Objects Vase
4256 Themes and Motifs Objects Vegetation
1670 Cultural Issues Clothes Veil
5654 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Venereal disease
943 Actions Violent Vengeance
1277 Actions Emotional Vengeful
3430 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Venice
5251 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Venus
770 Environment Domestic Space Veranda
355 Actions (First level term) Verbal
4170 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Vernacular
1744 Cultural Issues Clothes Vest
1279 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Vestal
5318 Cultural Issues War Veterans

This is a general marker for anything to do with veterans. The specific instance is the relationship between Jock and Captain Warren in "Death Drag." Although this is technically a "relationship" between veterans, the occurrence is so rare that it makes more sense to create a generic term.
5544 Cultural Issues Government Veterans Administration
1342 Cultural Issues Sexuality Vicarious
1334 Relationships Marital Vicarious wedding
3636 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Vicksburg
4813 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vicksburg
1424 Cultural Issues Crime Vigilantism

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR
2188 Actions Emotional Vindictive
3966 Environment Natural Vines
277 Cultural Issues Slavery Violence
4058 Relationships Marital Violence
249 Cultural Issues (First level term) Violence
3260 Actions Violent Violence against animals
4828 Cultural Issues War Violence against civilians
2848 Themes and Motifs Character Violent
356 Actions (First level term) Violent
3787 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Violent in figurative sense

For when a text uses "violent" in a figurative sense for things not actually violent -- violent fecundity, for instance, or "cheap violent blues" of someone's clothing. JBP
4494 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Virgil
2993 Cultural Issues Education Virginia
4560 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Virginia
1884 Cultural Issues Sexuality Virginity
2296 Themes and Motifs Values Virtue
5498 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Vision
4406 Cultural Issues Ritual Visit
1539 Actions Interaction, Social Visiting
4986 Actions Mental Visualize
3417 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vitality
2598 Themes and Motifs Body Voice
1886 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Voice
1800 Environment Auditory Voices
4729 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Voltaire
1293 Actions Bodily Vomiting
4354 Cultural Issues Religion Voodoo
4780 Cultural Issues Crime Voter fraud
2754 Relationships Civic Voting
716 Cultural Issues Politics Voting
2524 Actions Interaction, Social Voting
2525 Cultural Issues Government Voting rights
2519 Actions Verbal Vowing
3087 Cultural Issues Sexuality Voyeurism
552 Actions Perceptual Voyeurism
4892 Themes and Motifs Determinism Vs human agency
5118 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Vymy Ridge
1194 Cultural Issues Economy Wages
3282 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Wagner, Richard
1040 Themes and Motifs Objects Wagon
497 Actions Movement Wagon
3264 Actions Physical Wagon|Car maintenance
3987 Themes and Motifs Body Waist
2001 Cultural Issues Crime Waistcoat
5651 Actions Work Waiter
2854 Actions Emotional Waiting
1616 Actions Hunting Waiting
1879 Actions Physical Waiting
4621 Actions Work Waitress
2846 Themes and Motifs Death Wake

For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP
2180 Actions Bodily Waking
2735 Actions Physical Walking
704 Actions Movement Walking
2833 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Wall Street
1974 Cultural Issues Law Wanted poster

Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB
4676 Cultural Issues Alcohol Wanting a drink
807 Cultural Issues Gender War
812 Cultural Issues Age War
821 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss War
250 Cultural Issues (First level term) War
2424 Cultural Issues History War of 1812
1712 Cultural Issues War War of 1812
5689 Aesthetics Genre Conventions War story
2224 Environment Weather Warmth
1269 Actions Verbal Warning
5216 Actions Legal Warrant
1504 Cultural Issues Law Warrant
3235 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Warsaw
5631 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash charges posse
5630 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Wash kills Sutpen
1189 Actions Domestic Washing
630 Actions Physical Washing clothes
658 Actions Work Washing clothes
5254 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Washington Irving
2680 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Washington, D.C.
1123 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Washington, George
4534 Themes and Motifs Money Wasting
633 Themes and Motifs Time Watch

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