Actions: Verbal Rumor
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Accusatory
- Announcing
- Apology
- Arguing
- Badgering
- Banishment
- Banter / small talk
- Begging
- Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
- Bless
- Bragging
- Calling
- Calling by name
- Chanting
- Chatter
- Code-switching / Change in dialect
- Command
- Complaining
- Confession
- Congratulating
- Consoling
- Conversation
- Cursing
- Daring
- Debating
- Defining
- Demanding
- Denial
- Dialogue
- Disagreeing
- Discussion
- Eloquence
- Esoteric language
- Exaggeration
- Explaining
- Family history
- Flattery
- Flirting
- Garrulousness
- Giving advice
- Gossip
- Haggling
- Honor
- Howling
- Hushing
- Instructing
- Insulting
- Interruption
- Invitation
- Joking
- Listen
- Lying
- Marriage proposal
- Message
- Misspeaking
- Monologue
- Moralizing
- Mumbling
- Naming self
- Negotiation
- News
- Omission
- Ordering
- Persuasion
- Planning
- Praising
- Praying
- Preaching
- Predicting
- Promising
- Provoking
- Punning
- Questioning
- Reading aloud
- Rebel yell
- Refusing
- Renunciation
- Repetition
- Requesting
- Responding
- Reticence
- Revealing
- Rhetorical question
- Screaming
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- Singing
- Social criticism
- Speculation
- Speech
- Stating intent to leave home / run away
- Storytelling
- Stuttering / stammering
- Swearing
- Talking
- Taunt
- Teasing
- Telling
- Thanking
- Threat
- Tirade
- Ultimatum
- Vowing
- Warning
- Whimper
- Whispering
- Wishing
- Withholding
- Writing
- Yelling
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Men vs women | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Perceptual›Voyeurism | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Undressing
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Incest
Cultural Issues: Law›Wedding license | Race›Colorism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Economic›Share-cropping|Tenantry | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Quarters
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Record keeping | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Status, low | Economy›Poverty | Economy›Property | Government›Secrecy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Secrecy | Community›Knowledge | Community›Secrecy | Money›Coin | Money›Gold | Money›Lacking
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Olfactory | Place›Jefferson | Public›Town Square
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Mental›Realization | Movement›Driving | Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Community›Local legends | Time›Anticipation | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out | Values›Determination | Values›Durability
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Rural | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›All-male space | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Separate spaces | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Marital›Arrangements | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Description›Location portrait | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Economic›Buying | Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Surprise | Interaction, Social›Church | Mental›Believing | Mental›Knowing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Economy›Dowry | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Women | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Buying slaves | Slavery›Commodity
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Character›Ruthless | Community›Knowledge | Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Institutional›Church-Town | Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Natural›River | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Ox | Movement›Return | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Crime›Looting | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Group Mentality›Creating an Other | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Politics›Public opinion | Religion›Godhead | Slavery›Imported
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Chaos/Order›Social order|disorder | Community›Crowd | Community›Opinion | Community›Secrecy | Money›Loot | Money›Luxury | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Argument | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Engagement
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Trousseau | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Verbal›Rumor
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Big house vs quarters | Slavery›Traditions
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Hot-air balloon | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Character›Recklessness | Community›Carnival
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Cultural Issues: Labor›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Fatness / obesity
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss
Relationships: Institutional›Jailer-prisoner
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Cultural Issues: Religion›Baptist | Religion›Sunday school
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance
Environment: Time of Year›July
Actions: Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Politics›Campaigning
Environment: Place›Medical practice
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Greeting | Moral›Deception | Physical›Saluting | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye | Verbal›Code-switching / Change in dialect | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Rumor | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Racial|Regional stereotypes about drinking | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Education›Graduation | Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Playing to racial expectations / stereotypes | Race›Rules / norms for addressing whites | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Race›Uncle Tom | Ritual›Holiday | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R. | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Community›Columbus Day | Community›Parade | Home›Homesickness_Longing for home | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Hypocrisy | Objects›Luggage | Recurring Tropes›Gossip | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black | Social›Mentorship
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Princeton University | Allusion, Historical›Columbus, Christopher | Allusion, Historical›Lincoln, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Women's Christian Temperance Union / W.C.T.U. | Allusion, Literary›Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Allusion, Literary›Uncle Tom's Cabin | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Actions: Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Themes and Motifs: Money›In prospect | Objects›Shotgun
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual