Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Term Description
5680 Actions Verbal Thanking
2006 Actions Emotional Theatricality
2973 Actions Mental Thinking
1597 Actions Bodily Thirsting
563 Actions Verbal Threat
1750 Actions Violent Threatening
1861 Actions Physical Throwing
3749 Actions Violent Throwing downstairs
2922 Actions Perceptual Tickling
2720 Actions Verbal Tirade
4687 Actions Work To pay for education
2437 Actions Emotional Tolerance
2976 Actions Physical Touching
1618 Actions Hunting Tracking
1195 Actions Economic Trading
4793 Actions Movement Traffic
3834 Actions Emotional Tragic / tragedy
1763 Actions Movement Train
4015 Actions Military Training
3686 Actions Physical Trampling
4487 Actions Economic Transactional
3212 Actions Communication Transcribing
869 Actions Physical Transporting
3091 Actions Physical Travel
4194 Actions Work Traveling salesman
1443 Actions Physical Trembling
1445 Actions Bodily Trembling
2523 Actions Legal Trial
3808 Actions Physical Tripping
3391 Actions Emotional Triumph
2048 Actions Movement Truck
1626 Actions Hunting Turkey hunting
3989 Actions Physical Turning away
2605 Actions Verbal Ultimatum
2349 Actions Mental Unaware
575 Actions Mental Uncertainty
981 Actions Mental Understanding
1367 Actions Physical Undressing
2067 Actions Perceptual Unknowable

This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP
2428 Actions Communication Unsent message
4629 Actions Bodily Urinating
943 Actions Violent Vengeance
1277 Actions Emotional Vengeful
355 Actions (First level term) Verbal
2188 Actions Emotional Vindictive
3260 Actions Violent Violence against animals
356 Actions (First level term) Violent
1539 Actions Interaction, Social Visiting
4986 Actions Mental Visualize
1293 Actions Bodily Vomiting
2524 Actions Interaction, Social Voting
2519 Actions Verbal Vowing
552 Actions Perceptual Voyeurism
497 Actions Movement Wagon
3264 Actions Physical Wagon|Car maintenance
5651 Actions Work Waiter
1616 Actions Hunting Waiting
1879 Actions Physical Waiting
2854 Actions Emotional Waiting
4621 Actions Work Waitress
2180 Actions Bodily Waking
704 Actions Movement Walking
2735 Actions Physical Walking
1269 Actions Verbal Warning
5216 Actions Legal Warrant
1189 Actions Domestic Washing
630 Actions Physical Washing clothes
658 Actions Work Washing clothes
1482 Actions Bodily Watching
1726 Actions Perceptual Watching
4722 Actions Physical Watching
4071 Actions Physical Wave / waving
5166 Actions Bodily Weakness
5293 Actions Work Weaving
4647 Actions Verbal Whimper
2482 Actions Violent Whipping
1077 Actions Verbal Whispering
5147 Actions Physical Whistling
5079 Actions Physical Whittling
4014 Actions Hunting Wildcat hunting
4571 Actions Legal Will
4080 Actions Physical Winking
3127 Actions Verbal Wishing
5518 Actions Interaction, Social Withdrawal from public
868 Actions Verbal 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.
357 Actions (First level term) Work
4431 Actions Bodily Work song
825 Actions Emotional Worry
5800 Actions Agricultural Wrangling
5628 Actions Physical Wrestling
1900 Actions Communication Writing
5224 Actions Verbal Writing
4832 Actions Movement Wrong direction
5497 Actions Work Yard work
2752 Actions Verbal Yelling
1202 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes "Wait"

Spoken by a character to pause or slow down narration by another character so s/he can process the significance or take over the narration. The classic examples are from ABSALOM, but it's a signature verbal formula across Faulkner. JW
910 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Abandonment
2880 Themes and Motifs Time Abrupt shift in time

For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F.
1327 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence

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