Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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945 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Response to | |
1161 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Responsibility | |
1226 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Responsibility | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
2416 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Restoring order | |
4127 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Retelling | |
576 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return | |
4693 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return from war | |
1280 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return home | |
2907 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Return to present time | |
4198 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return to Yoknapatawpha | |
4398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reunion | |
4367 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Revenge | |
1721 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Reward | |
1138 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Right |
As in rightness, explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |
5329 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Right-of-way |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
2645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ring | |
5232 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Risque | |
4539 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Rope | |
3463 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Routine | |
4444 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | rubber tree | |
787 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Run away | |
1995 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Running out | |
2024 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Ruthless | |
3123 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Sacrifice | |
2797 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Saddle | |
1992 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Saddlebag | |
4822 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Salt | |
3124 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Salvation | |
4318 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Satchel | |
5289 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Saving | |
4516 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Saw | |
1541 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Scandal | |
2145 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Scar | |
5536 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Scholarship | |
4650 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | School book | |
3105 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Scissors | |
3896 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Scoundrel | |
2223 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Scruffiness | |
729 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Sculpture | |
4161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Scythe | |
2453 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Searching | |
2536 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Second-hand |
These are items that get passed from person to person and re-purposed. Much of this happens in the Snopes family, but there are also other examples. JB |
573 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Secrecy |
This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR |
1920 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Secrecy | |
2383 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Secret | |
5252 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Self-deception | |
4350 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Self-reliance | |
4478 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Self-righteousness | |
4797 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Selflessness | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
2616 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Sensory experience | |
4004 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Sensory memory |
When the physical sensation of a particular past event is remembered by a character. BR |
4171 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sentience |
Created to capture passages which describe an animal as thinking, knowing - specifically, for the way the horse and the hunting dogs "know where" the deer was hiding "as good as we did" in "Race at Morning," a knowledge that is seen is their behavior (299). SR |
1741 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Separation | |
2964 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Series of events experienced as long duration | |
3255 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Sewing machine | |
845 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sexual power | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
5138 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Shaving brush | |
5176 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sheep | |
5486 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Shell | |
3428 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ship | |
1183 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Shotgun | |
3148 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Shoulder | |
5158 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Shovel | |
5291 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Showing up | |
4365 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Shrewdness | |
2613 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Sickness | |
2877 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Signs / Omen | |
843 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Silver | |
4120 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Silver dollar | |
4559 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Silverware | |
1938 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Similarity | |
4366 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Simultaneity of time | |
3582 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Skin | |
2863 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Skull | |
2876 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sleeping in same bed |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
1455 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Slipper | |
2998 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Slipping out at night |
I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP |
5646 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Slop jar | |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
1590 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Snake | |
4567 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Soap | |
3020 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Social force | |
676 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Social life | |
4646 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Social order|disorder | |
3746 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sole owner and proprietor | |
2592 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitary | |
2030 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Solitude | |
2358 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Sophistication | |
2369 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Soul / Spirit | |
2607 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sound of a gunshot | |
3318 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sparrow | |
2385 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Spell | |
4746 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Spousal | |
1809 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Squirrel | |
1527 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Stained glass window | |
918 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Steamboat | |
710 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Still |