Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent |
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Description |
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296 | Cultural Issues | Slavery | White anxiety |
For moments in the text which describe anxiety felt by white characters about the presence or possible actions of slaves, as when Loosh's sudden appearance and behavior make Bayard uncomfortable. SR |
2811 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | White Citizens' Council | |
4962 | Cultural Issues | Race | White fear | |
2401 | Cultural Issues | Race | White race | |
1007 | Cultural Issues | Race | White savior | |
2530 | Cultural Issues | Race | White supremacists | |
572 | Cultural Issues | Prejudice | White supremacy | |
2513 | Cultural Issues | Class | White trash | |
946 | Relationships | Interracial | White-black | |
2409 | Cultural Issues | Economy | White-Indian commerce | |
5079 | Actions | Physical | Whittling | |
3818 | Aesthetics | Language | WhoOoooo | |
3819 | Aesthetics | Language | WhoOooooooooooooooo | |
1655 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Widow | |
4285 | Relationships | Familial | Widower | |
4102 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Wild breath | |
606 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Wild horses | |
4014 | Actions | Hunting | Wildcat hunting | |
1002 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Wildcats | |
3053 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Literary | Wilde, Oscar | |
1548 | Environment | Natural | Wilderness |
I'm wondering how this is different from "woods" and if they two terms might need to be meshed into one. Are woods more domestic or something? LW |
1728 | Environment | Place | Wilderness-civilized boundary | |
594 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Wildness | |
4936 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Wilkinson, James | |
4571 | Actions | Legal | Will | |
4572 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Will | |
5206 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Will Mayes lynched | |
1864 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Will to endure | |
4150 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Willow tree | |
3250 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Wilson, Woodrow | |
883 | Environment | Atmospheric | Wind | |
2021 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Windows | |
2228 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Wine | |
4106 | Cultural Issues | Alcohol | Wine hamper | |
4080 | Actions | Physical | Winking | |
773 | Environment | Time of Year | Winter | |
3127 | Actions | Verbal | Wishing | |
1887 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wisteria | |
5518 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Withdrawal from public | |
868 | Actions | Verbal | Withholding | |
1639 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Withholding | |
1570 | Actions | Communication | Without words |
When someone communicates by means of something other than words (written or spoken); for example, the envelope full of money Boyd wants Ike to give his mistress, or the verbena that Drusilla leaves on Bayard's pillow. |
1009 | Cultural Issues | Law | Witness | |
2043 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Wolf | |
5324 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Woman smoking | |
2704 | Relationships | Interspecies | Woman-horse | |
2620 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Womb | |
800 | Cultural Issues | War | Women | |
561 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Women | |
621 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Women | |
3950 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Women as gentler sex / delicate | |
3953 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Women as mysterious / secretive | |
4701 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Women as sacred | |
3704 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | |
2943 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Won | |
5354 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Wonderful | |
818 | Cultural Issues | Hunting and Fishing | Woodcraft | |
4357 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Woodpecker|Lord-to-God | |
2318 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Woodpile | |
1103 | Environment | Natural | Woods | |
2873 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Work | |
357 | Actions | (First level term) | Work | |
1419 | Cultural Issues | Migration | Work |
This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR |
3572 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Work clothes | |
1196 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Work ethic | |
4431 | Actions | Bodily | Work song | |
1174 | Cultural Issues | Class | Working | |
2874 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Working day | |
978 | Cultural Issues | War | World War I | |
735 | Cultural Issues | War | World War II | |
3358 | Cultural Issues | Entertainment | World's Fair | |
825 | Actions | Emotional | Worry | |
616 | Cultural Issues | War | Wound | |
1824 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wreath | |
5628 | Actions | Physical | Wrestling | |
5224 | Actions | Verbal | Writing | |
1900 | Actions | Communication | Writing | |
4832 | Actions | Movement | Wrong direction | |
4123 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Wrong name | |
5479 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Wzlewski | |
2962 | Aesthetics | Language | Yah-yah-yah | |
1846 | Cultural Issues | Education | Yale | |
1530 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Cultural | Yankee | |
4845 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Yankee uniform | |
1025 | Environment | Domestic Space | Yard | |
5497 | Actions | Work | Yard work | |
4945 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Year 1860 | |
5081 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Historical | Year 1861 | |
4910 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Year the stars fell |
Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP |
2752 | Actions | Verbal | Yelling | |
4333 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Yellow fever | |
4103 | Aesthetics | Language | yes Yes Yes yes | |
5325 | Aesthetics | Language | YIPPPEEE | |
5370 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Yoknapatawpha as mythic Greece | |
4983 | Environment | Place | Yoknapatawpha Beat | |
2418 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Yoknapatawpha founders | |
5032 | Aesthetics | Recurring Episodes | Young Bayard's death | |
650 | Cultural Issues | Age | Youth | |
4651 | Cultural Issues | Age | Youth vs age | |
5579 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Mythical | Zodiac |