Actions: Bodily Dying
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Alimentary
- Asthma
- Barefooted
- Bathing and/or personal hygiene
- Birth / Being born
- Bleeding
- Blinking
- Blushing
- Breastfeeding
- Breathing
- Caressing
- Chewing
- Childbirth
- Choking
- Confessing without words
- Coughing
- Crying
- Decomposition
- Defecation
- Dipping snuff
- Dismemberment
- Drinking
- Drooling
- Eating
- Eating breakfast
- Eating supper
- Ejaculating
- Fainting
- Falling
- Fasting
- Feeling pain
- Flatulence
- Gaining weight
- Going to bed
- Grinning
- Groaning
- Healing
- Heart beating
- Hiccups
- Hiding
- Hungering
- Idleness
- Inject
- Insomnia
- Jumping
- Kissing
- Kneeling
- Laughing
- Limping
- Looking
- Losing consciousness
- Losing weight
- Menstruation
- Miscarriage
- Nausea
- Panting
- Playing music
- Pregnancy
- Recoiling
- Regaining consciousness
- Retching
- Running
- Shaking
- Shaving
- Shivering
- Singing
- Sitting
- Sleeping
- Sleeplessness
- Sleepy
- Smelling
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Spitting
- Squatting
- Standing
- Staring
- Starvation
- Stretching
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Tension
- Thirsting
- Trembling
- Urinating
- Vomiting
- Waking
- Watching
- Weakness
- Work song
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›White-black | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Telephone
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Mystery | Recurring Episodes›Harriss' death
Environment: Time of Day›Noon | Weather›Sun
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal Dog
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Despair | Military›Combat | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Return | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide | Gender›Widow | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Character›Pride | Character›Scoundrel | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Home›Estranged | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic
Cultural Issues: War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Noncombatant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Symbolism›Roman
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Porch
Actions: Bodily›Dipping snuff | Bodily›Dying | Economic›Delivery | Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Persuasion | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Economy›Self-sufficiency
Themes and Motifs: Death | Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Obligation | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes | Language›Ellipsis | Style›Unfinished sentence
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry | Domestic Space›Deathbed | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Resentment | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Deathbed | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Shaking | Emotional›Grief | Moral›Rationalization | Physical›Sawing | Verbal›Shouting | Work›Carpenter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Parents-children
Themes and Motifs: Death›Animal bear
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Diction›Native American languages
Environment: Time of Year›Indian Summer
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Environment: Domestic Space›Home
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War consequences
Environment: Domestic Space›Deathbed | Domestic Space›House | Public›Church
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Pregnancy | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Abortion | Race›White supremacists | Religion›Fanaticism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Violent›Car accident
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Cultural Issues: History›Surrender at Appomattox
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reactionary | Death›Of parent
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Car accident
Relationships: Marital›Abandonment
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Bayard's death
Environment: Time of Year›Friday
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Work›Livery stable
Relationships: Ancestral›Parent's great-grandparent
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Light | Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Heartbeat | Auditory›Insect sounds | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Creek | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›Sand | Natural›Sky | Natural›Water moving / flowing | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Warmth
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Going to bed | Bodily›Heart beating | Bodily›Panting | Bodily›Sitting | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Lying | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Blurring | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Pursuit | Physical›Starting over | Physical›Touching | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Clothes›Skirt | Clothes›Wet clothes | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Sensuality | Sexuality›Sex and death | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Insects crickets | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Hips | Body›Knee | Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Objects›Fence | Objects›Willow tree | Objects›knife | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Romantic›Sexual | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Baptism | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Island of silence | Figures of Speech›Mirror | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›no no | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Cleansing power of water | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation