Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
1001 Themes and Motifs Objects Watch
5156 Cultural Issues Clothes Watch chain
4722 Actions Physical Watching
1726 Actions Perceptual Watching
1482 Actions Bodily Watching
627 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Water
3262 Environment Auditory Water
3860 Environment Natural Water moving / flowing
1491 Themes and Motifs Objects Watermelon
4071 Actions Physical Wave / waving
3453 Cultural Issues Health and Illness Weak heart
5166 Actions Bodily Weakness
1044 Cultural Issues Economy Wealth
4372 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Weaponry imagery
341 Environment (First level term) Weather
5293 Actions Work Weaving
5313 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Weber, Joe

Part of the vaudeville comedy duo Weber and Fields. JHB

3094 Relationships Marital Wedding
1666 Themes and Motifs Community Wedding
5620 Cultural Issues Ritual Wedding
1899 Cultural Issues Clothes Wedding dress
1048 Cultural Issues Law Wedding license
669 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding license
2843 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding ring
5193 Environment Time of Year Wednesday
3057 Environment Time of Day Wee hours
2996 Environment Olfactory Weed
3965 Environment Natural Weeds
2441 Themes and Motifs Body Weight
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
3492 Cultural Issues Government Welfare
1062 Themes and Motifs Objects Well
4558 Environment Place Well|Wellhouse
2143 Cultural Issues Education West Point
5367 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical West Point
622 Aesthetics Diction Western vernacular
4149 Cultural Issues Clothes Wet clothes
3984 Environment Atmospheric Wetness
2470 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel
5540 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel chair
1345 Themes and Motifs Futility When will it stop
4647 Actions Verbal Whimper
2482 Actions Violent Whipping
694 Themes and Motifs Animals Whippoorwills
724 Cultural Issues Alcohol Whiskey
1077 Actions Verbal Whispering
3732 Environment Auditory Whistle
5147 Actions Physical Whistling
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
I'm using wilderness when it is directly discussed in the text as a presence, a living thing as in GDM (i.e., "the wilderness breathed again" (174)) JJ

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

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