Aesthetics: Description Tableau
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Animate/Inanimate
- Character portrait
- Color black
- Color blue
- Color bronze
- Color brown
- Color gray
- Color green
- Color lilac
- Color maroon
- Color of leaf tobacco
- Color pink
- Color purple
- Color red
- Color white
- Color yellow
- Delayed decoding
- Eyes
- Grotesque
- Landscape
- Location portrait
- Stage direction
- Weight / Burden
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return from war
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Spectral | Atmospheric›Stillness | Domestic Space›Yard | Public›Street
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Hiding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Objects›Fence | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Vision | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Pause
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Pasture | Domestic Space›Stable | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Sneaking | Verbal›Screaming | Violent›Dehumanization | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Class›Power | Gender›Inversion | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Religion›Providence | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Southern curse | Slavery›Violence | Violence›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Determinism›Fated | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave | Social›Crowds
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Oppressive | Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›House
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Outrage | Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Forgiveness | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Gender›Female body | Gender›Women | Religion›Damnation | Religion›Forgiveness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Flesh | Body›Voice | Death›Response to | Objects›Photograph | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Obsession | Psychological›Trauma | Recurring Tropes›Dark house | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Story-telling | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Niobe | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Style›Numerous adjectives | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness
Actions: Movement›Horse | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Restraining
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Temporal projection
Environment: Time of Day›Dawn
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Ferris wheel | Entertainment›World's Fair | Materialism›Americana | Materialism›Souvenir | Progress›Skyscraper
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Jewelry Charm | Objects›Opera glass | Objects›Peep-hole viewer / Stanhope | Objects›Watch
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Domestic Space›Backyard
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Arrivals/Departures›Return home
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau