Keywords
| Term ID |
Vocabulary |
Parent | Term | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5278 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Haunted by past | |
| 5289 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Saving | |
| 5291 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Showing up | |
| 5301 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Confederate | |
| 5303 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Possum | |
| 5304 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Owl | |
| 5329 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Right-of-way |
Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR |
| 5330 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stud fee | |
| 5338 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Constitutive moment |
A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR |
| 5352 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Of parent | |
| 5377 | Themes and Motifs | Art | And civilization | |
| 5382 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Generous | |
| 5393 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Mottoes | |
| 5401 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Aesthetic experience | |
| 5406 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cigarette lighter | |
| 5407 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Meaning of | |
| 5425 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Conventional | |
| 5431 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Reactionary | |
| 5439 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Ill-gotten | |
| 5446 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Supportive | |
| 5486 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Shell | |
| 5491 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bomb-sight | |
| 5496 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Need for | |
| 5498 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Vision | |
| 5519 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Amoral | |
| 5524 | Themes and Motifs | Home | New home | |
| 5529 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | As tribute | |
| 5534 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Curmudgeonly | |
| 5536 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Scholarship | |
| 5540 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wheel chair | |
| 5559 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Freedom of choice | |
| 5573 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Grasshoppers | |
| 5574 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Grasshoppers | |
| 5578 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Buttocks | |
| 5595 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Gathering | |
| 5597 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | License Plate | |
| 5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
| 5619 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects tick | |
| 5621 | Themes and Motifs | Inheritance | Renouncing | |
| 5635 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Classical Greek | |
| 5643 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Tankard | |
| 5645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pitcher | |
| 5646 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Slop jar | |
| 5681 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Kettle | |
| 5682 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coffee pot | |
| 5683 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cup | |
| 5687 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pillow | |
| 5692 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Postcard | |
| 5694 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Burial society |