Keywords
| Term ID |
Vocabulary |
Parent | Term | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4116 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Treasure | |
| 4118 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Metal detector | |
| 4119 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Check | |
| 4120 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Silver dollar | |
| 4123 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Wrong name | |
| 4127 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Retelling | |
| 4132 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Title | |
| 4134 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Inheritance | |
| 4136 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Knowledge | |
| 4146 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects crickets | |
| 4148 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Missing | |
| 4150 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Willow tree | |
| 4161 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Scythe | |
| 4171 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sentience |
Created to capture passages which describe an animal as thinking, knowing - specifically, for the way the horse and the hunting dogs "know where" the deer was hiding "as good as we did" in "Race at Morning," a knowledge that is seen is their behavior (299). SR |
| 4177 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Point-of-view |
Created for a moment in "Race at Morning" when the narrator imagines what the hunted deer is seeing and thinking. There may not be other instances of this, but to open up the narrative to the subjectivity of an animal seems worth noting. SR |
| 4188 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Distance from home |
For moments when somebody thinks how far they've come from where they live. SR |
| 4197 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Nondescript | |
| 4198 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Return to Yoknapatawpha | |
| 4205 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Farming tools | |
| 4206 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Past vs present | |
| 4209 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apparition | |
| 4210 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vanishing | |
| 4211 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Physical disability | |
| 4214 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Construction tools | |
| 4216 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Apotheosis | |
| 4218 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Nothing to do |
"There's nothing else I can do now," Elly thinks (207). Reaching a point where no further options or ways forward can be imagined. |
| 4224 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Repression | |
| 4236 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dark house | |
| 4242 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Racialized | |
| 4250 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Family values |
Not to be confused with the contemporary politically charged term. Rather, these are values shared by all or most members of the family. It's what your mamma or daddy taught you. JB and EP |
| 4255 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Symbolism |
This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR |
| 4256 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Vegetation | |
| 4257 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Getting away | |
| 4258 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Individualism |
Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP |
| 4259 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bravado | |
| 4261 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Neglect | |
| 4278 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Matchstick | |
| 4281 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Cyclical | |
| 4283 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Substitute | |
| 4284 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Traumatic | |
| 4286 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Balance | |
| 4289 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maybe as concept | |
| 4294 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Unsynchronized clocks | |
| 4306 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Engagement ring | |
| 4317 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Musical instrument | |
| 4318 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Satchel | |
| 4329 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Inexperience | |
| 4335 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Epitaph | |
| 4339 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mental disability | |
| 4345 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Constitutive moment | |
| 4349 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Design | |
| 4350 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Self-reliance | |
| 4357 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Woodpecker|Lord-to-God | |
| 4362 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Conviction | |
| 4365 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Shrewdness | |
| 4366 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Simultaneity of time | |
| 4367 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Revenge | |
| 4368 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Lost time | |
| 4374 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Belonging | |
| 4398 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reunion | |
| 4399 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Glory | |
| 4401 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hatchet | |
| 4408 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Disease | |
| 4417 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Camera | |
| 4418 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Substitute | |
| 4419 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Accounts | |
| 4421 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | tent | |
| 4423 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flashlight | |
| 4424 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Stranger |
I'm thinking of the times when someone enters a community who is unknown and the collective community has suspicions about this character. A clear example would be Lena Grove. (jj) |
| 4427 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Success | |
| 4428 | Themes and Motifs | Death | And inheritance | |
| 4434 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Feminine | |
| 4437 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Jazz music | |
| 4440 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Plane accident | |
| 4441 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Epitaph | |
| 4444 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | rubber tree | |
| 4447 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Alienation from nature | |
| 4457 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Maternity | |
| 4460 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Helpless | |
| 4462 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Denial | |
| 4469 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insect boll weevil | |
| 4476 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Family honor | |
| 4477 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Money order | |
| 4478 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Self-righteousness | |
| 4479 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Superhuman strength | |
| 4483 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Laughter as sign of madness | |
| 4484 | Themes and Motifs | Character | stoic | |
| 4503 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Swallows | |
| 4509 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bluejays | |
| 4510 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Firewood | |
| 4511 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Emptiness | |
| 4512 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence of sound | |
| 4513 | Themes and Motifs | Money | As symbol |
I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW |
| 4514 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pear tree | |
| 4516 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Saw | |
| 4525 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Improvements | |
| 4528 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Prosthetic | |
| 4534 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Wasting | |
| 4535 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal mule | |
| 4537 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Giraffe |