Actions: Verbal Singing
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
- Rumor
- Screaming
- Self-justifying
- Sharing confidences
- Shouting
- Silence
- 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
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Relationships: Hierarchical›Doctor-patient | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Money›Owed
Environment: Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Actions: Emotional›Mourning | Movement›Walking | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Singing
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Meaning›Misinterpretation
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child | Interracial›Master-servant
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Free Will
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Divine plan | Character›Intelligence | Character›Responsibility | Story-telling›Retelling
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Funeral
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Voice
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish
Relationships: Familial›Childlessness | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Declasse | Modernity›Speed | Slavery›Nostalgia | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Verbal›Singing | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hunting clothes | Education›Princeton | Hunting and Fishing›Trophy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible | Objects›Photograph | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe
Aesthetics: Language›Hymn | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Moon | Olfactory›Cigar | Olfactory›Locust | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Domestic›Food preparation | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Train | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Gossip | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Health and Illness›Deafness | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Crickets | Animals›Fox | Art›African American music | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Arrivals/Departures›Return to Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Day›Evening
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Miscarriage | Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Religion›Religious faith | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Public›Jail | Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial spheres
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Community›Alienation
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fire | Objects›Hot water bottle | Objects›Stove | Recurring Tropes›Door
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Objects›Clock | Objects›Firewood | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Unsynchronized clocks
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Relationships: Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Environment: Place›Church | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Church | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Objects›Flowers
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Clock | Objects›Stove | Recurring Tropes›Door | Time›Awareness of time
Environment: Natural›River | Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Mental›Disorientation | Movement›Crossing | Movement›Migration | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Singing | Verbal›Yelling | Violent›Explosion
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Displacement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos