Keywords
Term ID |
Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1325 | Environment | Auditory | Heartbeat | |
| 1326 | Environment | Place | Vacant house | |
| 1327 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence | |
| 1328 | Relationships | Marital | Separated | |
| 1329 | Environment | Olfactory | Evoking memory | |
| 1331 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as loss | |
| 1332 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Nothingness | |
| 1333 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Obsession | |
| 1334 | Relationships | Marital | Vicarious wedding | |
| 1335 | Actions | Bodily | Insomnia | |
| 1336 | Aesthetics | Allusion, Biblical | Christ | |
| 1337 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Frustration | |
| 1338 | Actions | Perceptual | Professional surveillance | |
| 1339 | Actions | Bodily | Gaining weight | |
| 1340 | Actions | Mental | Channeling |
An unFaulknerian term for what Zilphia does when, in Jefferson, she lives "vicariously and transcendentally" inside the lives of her former husband and his new wife in another state, or what Darl does so often in As I Lay Dying. SR |
| 1341 | Actions | Emotional | Exultation | |
| 1342 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Vicarious | |
| 1343 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Letters | |
| 1344 | Actions | Verbal | Screaming | |
| 1345 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | When will it stop | |
| 1346 | Cultural Issues | Race | Imaginary Negro men | |
| 1347 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Lack of choice | |
| 1348 | Environment | Place | Hospital | |
| 1349 | Themes and Motifs | Death | In childbirth | |
| 1350 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Car accident | |
| 1351 | Relationships | Familial | Invented | |
| 1352 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Life as repetition | |
| 1353 | Cultural Issues | Food | As substitute | |
| 1354 | Relationships | Marital | Abandonment | |
| 1355 | Relationships | Marital | Adultery | |
| 1356 | Environment | Auditory | Confused din | |
| 1357 | Cultural Issues | Class | Snopesism | |
| 1358 | Cultural Issues | Prejudice | Socio-economic | |
| 1359 | Actions | Economic | Scheming | |
| 1360 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Female | |
| 1361 | Aesthetics | Tone | Sarcastic | |
| 1362 | Environment | Place | Corral | |
| 1363 | Actions | Perceptual | Nosiness | |
| 1364 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Pause | |
| 1365 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Maternal impulse | |
| 1366 | Relationships | Familial | Physical discipline | |
| 1367 | Actions | Physical | Undressing | |
| 1368 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Rural sales | |
| 1369 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Chaos | |
| 1370 | Aesthetics | Tone | Farce | |
| 1371 | Environment | Domestic Space | Boarding house | |
| 1372 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Accident | |
| 1373 | Actions | Non-human | Escape | |
| 1374 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, male | |
| 1375 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Underclothes, female | |
| 1376 | Actions | Physical | Dressing | |
| 1377 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Injured | |
| 1378 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Nursing | |
| 1379 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Doctoring | |
| 1380 | Aesthetics | Language | Ah-Ah-Ah | |
| 1381 | Relationships | Familial | Exigent circumstances | |
| 1382 | Actions | Work | For room and board | |
| 1383 | Actions | Perceptual | Overhearing | |
| 1384 | Relationships | Familial | Physical resemblances | |
| 1385 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Capture as loss | |
| 1386 | Aesthetics | Tone | Absurdist | |
| 1387 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Out of ordered place |
This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR |
| 1388 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bible | |
| 1389 | Actions | Physical | Kissing | |
| 1390 | Actions | Movement | Bus | |
| 1391 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Suitcase | |
| 1392 | Actions | Emotional | Sadness | |
| 1393 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Birds | |
| 1394 | Environment | Public | Bus Depot/Bus stop | |
| 1395 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | knife | |
| 1396 | Actions | Verbal | Joking | |
| 1397 | Relationships | Civic | child protection | |
| 1398 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Hypocrisy | |
| 1399 | Environment | Public | Jail | |
| 1400 | Actions | Violent | Suicide | |
| 1401 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Pregnancy | |
| 1402 | Actions | Bodily | Singing | |
| 1403 | Environment | Domestic Space | Cabin | |
| 1404 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Terror | |
| 1405 | Actions | Legal | Arrest | |
| 1406 | Relationships | Institutional | Jailer-prisoner | |
| 1407 | Cultural Issues | Health and Illness | Addiction | |
| 1408 | Actions | Bodily | Sitting | |
| 1409 | Cultural Issues | Race | Self-abnegation | |
| 1410 | Environment | Place | Lane | |
| 1411 | Actions | Physical | Protection | |
| 1412 | Environment | Auditory | Haunting | |
| 1413 | Actions | Physical | Stalking | |
| 1414 | Cultural Issues | Race | Racist child | |
| 1415 | Actions | Communication | Telephone | |
| 1416 | Cultural Issues | Progress | Cars | |
| 1417 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Renaming |
When a character is given or takes a new name due to a change in their identity. BR |
| 1418 | Relationships | Social | Homosocial | |
| 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 |
| 1420 | Relationships | Social | Isolation |
This term describes moments when a character is isolated or ostracized from the wider social community. BR |
| 1421 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Dress | |
| 1422 | Cultural Issues | Sexuality | Unattractiveness | |
| 1423 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Pathetic fallacy | |
| 1424 | Cultural Issues | Crime | Vigilantism |
This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR |
| 1425 | Aesthetics | Language | Ellipsis |