Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
3368 Aesthetics Narrative Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
3369 Aesthetics Narrative Resumption of sentence after interruption
3372 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Cloud
3373 Aesthetics Language Ha ha ha
3376 Aesthetics Language Haw haw haw
3403 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Armor
3404 Aesthetics Narrative Irony
3409 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Columbus, Christopher
3410 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Garibaldi, Giuseppe
3413 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Italian flag
3421 Aesthetics Description Delayed decoding

Used in instances when the initial description of an object is ambiguous or defamiliarized, and the narrative only later clarifies exactly what was being described. For example, in _Flags in the Dust_, a clarinet is initially described as "a slender tube frosted over with keys" (143). BR
3423 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Cerberus
3425 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Three score and ten
3427 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Brest
3430 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Venice
3433 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Beauregard, P. G. T.
3434 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Johnston, Joseph E.
3435 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Hinson, Jack
3439 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Barbados
3442 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary A Midsummer Night's Dream
3446 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Milton, John
3451 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Abraham
3459 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Sabatini, Rafael
3460 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Dreiser, Theodore
3461 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Arlen, Michael
3462 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Romance
3470 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ahenobarbus
3471 Aesthetics Language Archaic
3473 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Atalanta
3474 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Texas
3478 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South America
3479 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Booth, William
3484 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Delilah
3485 Aesthetics Language Antimetabole
3494 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts
3510 Aesthetics Style List
3511 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Drained marsh
3512 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Gull
3514 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Philosopher Bergson, Henri
3516 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Death / Dead imagery
3519 Aesthetics Description Weight / Burden
3521 Aesthetics Narrative African-American folk sayings
3534 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rabbit
3538 Aesthetics Style Numerous adjectives
3551 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mississippi River
3552 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical De Soto, Hernando
3558 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Glass
3561 Aesthetics Narrative Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
3564 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Hopkins, Gerard Manley
3565 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "The Windhover"
3567 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book of Isaiah
3568 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Conflation of several possible sources

I added this to account for a Biblical allusion ("Benjamin child of mine old age") that seems to have several possible Old Testament sources, representing a kind of conflating of those sources. JBP
3569 Aesthetics Language Biblical
3577 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Invisible wire
3579 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Charles River
3583 Aesthetics Description Color brown
3584 Aesthetics Description Color of leaf tobacco
3587 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Ghost
3588 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Toys
3594 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Archimedes
3599 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oxford, England
3602 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Arctic
3604 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Sheep
3606 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Kentucky
3608 Aesthetics Figures of Speech King and/or queen
3609 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Planets
3610 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Massachusetts
3617 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Cambridge, Massachusetts
3619 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Mason and Dixon Line
3636 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Vicksburg
3638 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Holly Springs, Mississippi
3645 Aesthetics Description Color bronze
3646 Aesthetics Description Color blue
3653 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical South Bend, Indiana
3654 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Puppy
3655 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Marmion"
3656 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Byron
3658 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Don Juan"
3659 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Romance / Romanticism
3666 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Shiloh
3667 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Battle of Atlanta
3670 Aesthetics Tone Incongruous
3677 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical French Lick, Indiana
3679 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Hunting metaphor / imagery
3684 Aesthetics Diction "Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past

This could come under Style, too -- to capture when Faulkner uses simple words like "is" or "was" as synonyms for larger concepts of past or present. Added for Quentin, but could be used in As I Lay Dying too for Darl's rumination on the same. JBP
3692 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Fertilise / Fertility imagery
3695 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Stowe, Harriet Beecher
3696 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Uncle Tom's Cabin
3699 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Princeton University
3704 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U.
3711 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Bride / Bridal
3712 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Old Testament Book of Psalms
3718 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Semiramis
3724 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Poisoned
3728 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Valley of the shadow of death
3733 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Boston, Massachusetts
3741 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Swallows
3744 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Canada
3754 Aesthetics Language Misspelling
3755 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Havana, Cuba

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