Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Term Description
4084 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Othello
2743 Aesthetics Tone Overwrought

This label is as subjective as it is possibly contentious, yet I have created for those instances in which the tone appears too highfalutin, philosophical, or otherwise "fancy" in relation to the subject matter at hand. The specific example, is from The Reivers when Lucius Priest constantly reflects on his younger self in mock-epic fashion to describe his battles with "Virtue". JB

3599 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oxford, England
4371 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Oxford, Mississippi
1892 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Oxymoron
2830 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Ozarks
5410 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Pacific islands
4731 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Paine, Thomas
4076 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Paint
1889 Aesthetics Metafictional Painting
5260 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Pan
5097 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Parable
1687 Aesthetics Narrative Parentheses
4309 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Paris
5378 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Paris
3494 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts
3924 Aesthetics Genre Conventions Parody
3769 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Parrot
2586 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Parsham
2896 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Patch, Dan
1423 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Pathetic fallacy
1364 Aesthetics Narrative Pause
3237 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
3875 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Pencil
527 Aesthetics Figures of Speech People compared to animals
3954 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Periodical filth
4087 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Persephone
1981 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Personification
2697 Aesthetics Narrative Perspective
4926 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Perth Highlands, Scotland
5190 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Petronius
2836 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Peyton, George
1121 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Pharaoh
5584 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Philippines
3514 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Philosopher Bergson, Henri
2321 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Phoenix
2393 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Photography
4400 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Pickett's Charge
5685 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Pickett, George
2323 Aesthetics Metafictional Picture/image
4734 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Pilate
2647 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Pilgrim
4378 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
3609 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Planets
5220 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Plantation to housing development
2392 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Planting
4499 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Pocahontas
4403 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poe, Edgar Allan
3658 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Don Juan"
3340 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Kubla Khan"
3655 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Marmion"
3885 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"
3852 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
3159 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "The Waste Land"
3565 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem "The Windhover"
5463 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
3923 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem/song "The Star-Spangled Banner"
4312 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
3724 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Poisoned
5472 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Poland
959 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Polynesian tribes
5671 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Pope, John
5067 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Popeye's execution
3243 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Popular magazines
2954 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Porter, Fitz-John
3234 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Prentiss
2507 Aesthetics Style Present tense
2085 Aesthetics Narrative Present-time reference

For when a character switches from past-tense narration (about past events) to refer to the present time and/or how he/she feels "now." -JBP

5008 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Priam
2588 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Priapus
3699 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Princeton University
2291 Aesthetics Language Profanity

Any time a character uses profanity. JB

2371 Aesthetics Metafictional Projection
2853 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Przemysl
5427 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Ptolemy
3654 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Puppy
4337 Aesthetics Allusion, Biblical Purgatory
5462 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Pushkin, Alexander
2664 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Pyramus and Thisbe
3179 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Queen Victoria
5076 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Quentin's suicide
2182 Aesthetics Narrative Quotation as thought

For when a text says a character "thinks" or "thought" something - often as a passage in quotation marks but also sometimes in italics. In those cases, perhaps the "Italics" keyword should also be applied. JBP

3534 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rabbit
705 Aesthetics Diction Racist term
2091 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rain
2792 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul
2840 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Rainey, Paul DELETE
2828 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Raleigh, Tennessee
2632 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rape
4114 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Rats
4904 Aesthetics Symbolism Rebirth
2015 Aesthetics Narrative Reconstructed
412 Aesthetics (First level term) Recurring Episodes
2245 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Recurring event, intertextual

When Faulkner in one text refers to or re-writes an event that also occurs in other text(s), for example the account of Miss Quentin climbing down the pear tree (in The Sound and the Fury) or the rain pipe (as the same event has it in the "Appendix" and The Mansion. SR

2244 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Recurring event, intratextual

When Faulkner refers to or re-writes an event more than once inside a single text, for example the four references to Caddy's muddy drawers in Benjy and Quentin's sections of The Sound and the Fury. SR

2835 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Red Banks
5185 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Red Sea
3106 Aesthetics Symbolism Reflection

Created for when a text makes explicit reference to mirrored reflection that has potential symbolic importance - created to capture Benjy's repeated references to a mirror in the library (of fire, of Caddy) that in the present day is gone (leaving only a door-like discoloration on the wall where it once had been). -JBP

3805 Aesthetics Allusion, Geographical Reno, Nevada
982 Aesthetics Narrative Repetition

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