Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Secret

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"Elly", 214 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Telephone | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience
Themes and Motifs: Home›Getting away | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Romantic›Extra-marital
"Hair", 143 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Gifting | Work›Barbering
Cultural Issues: Age | Ritual›Visit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Absalom, Absalom!, 140 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Absalom, Absalom!, 267 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Discovery | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Absalom, Absalom!, 279 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Terror | Verbal›Warning | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Retelling | Supernatural›Haunted house
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Narrative›Narrative shift
Absalom, Absalom!, 291 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Impatience
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Absalom, Absalom!, 83 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Love | Movement›Horse | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Silence
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
As I Lay Dying, 128 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Mules | Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 129 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Exhaustion | Emotional›Jealousy | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
As I Lay Dying, 130 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Emotional›Jealousy | Moral›Deception | Verbal›Revealing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
As I Lay Dying, 132 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 133 (Event)
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Movement›Following | Verbal›Silence | Work›Farming
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 134 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Economic›Purchase | Mental›Discovery | Moral›Deception | Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective | Labor›Farming | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Expenses | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-horse | Marital›Adultery
As I Lay Dying, 141 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Water moving / flowing | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Without words | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Regret | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Wagon | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Flood imagery
As I Lay Dying, 174 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Woods
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Meaning›Paternity | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Language
As I Lay Dying, 206 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Disagreeing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Tone›Absurdist | Tone›Farce
As I Lay Dying, 215 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 215 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Counting
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 217 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Physical›Discovering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 223 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 225 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 226 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Mass Media›Telephone | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Burial | Death›Respect | Philosophical›Reduction / summing up | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
As I Lay Dying, 235 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Music | Public›Street
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Graphophone
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Phonograph | Recurring Tropes›Secret
As I Lay Dying, 237 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Flags in the Dust, 101 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Communication›Writing | Physical›Burning | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 310 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Mental›Incomprehension
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Flags in the Dust, 334 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Mask
Flags in the Dust, 357 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Verbal›Lying
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Fox | Animals›Pony | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Louisville, Kentucky | Diction›Rural vernacular
The Reivers , 265 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Politics›Democracy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
The Sound and the Fury, 107 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Fireplace|Mantel
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Bribing | Economic›Gifting | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job | Economic›Lending Money | Economic›Offering to buy | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hurting | Emotional›Jealousy | Interaction, Private›Rivalry | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Interaction, Social›Shaking hands | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Learning | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Entrapment / trapping | Physical›Intrusion | Physical›Travel | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Negotiation | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Refusing | Verbal›Requesting | Verbal›Revealing | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Fighting | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Education›College or school traditions | Education›Harvard | Education›Life after graduation | Education›School year | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Widow | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Sexuality›Premarital | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Character›Bookishness | Character›Honesty | Character›Integrity | Memory›Remembering | Money›As motive | Money›Bill | Morals›Chivalry | Morals›Honor | Objects›Cigar | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Values›Devotion | Values›Honor | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Fiance | Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial | Social›Fellow alumni of a college or university
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Havana, Cuba | Allusion, Literary›Galahad | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Parrot | Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 125 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Olfactory›Baking / bread
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Economic›Purchase | Emotional›Caring | Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Charity | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Stealing | Physical›Hiding | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Ethnicity›Italian | Ethnicity›Jewish | Ethnicity›Offensive terminology | Food›Bread | Food›Cake | Food›Coffee | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Masculine woman | Gender›Stereotype librarian / school teacher | Mass Media›Newspaper | Nationality›American | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Librarian look | Body›Eyes | Body›Hand / Palm | Money›Nickel coin | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Coffee | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Civic›Charity | Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem/song "The Star-Spangled Banner" | Description›Color gray | Diction›Ethnic slur | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Drama / Theatre imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Toy bear / teddybear | Genre Conventions›Parody | Tone›Sarcastic
The Sound and the Fury, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Wind | Natural›Creek
Cultural Issues: Food›Candy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Fence | Objects›Ice | Recurring Tropes›Secret
The Sound and the Fury, 148 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cedar trees | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Love | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Thinking | Moral›Confession | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Pointing | Physical›Starting over
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Alcoholism | Class›Class consciousness | Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Experience | Sexuality›First sexual encounter or experience | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Orgasm | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Pretending / Feigning | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Character›Responsibility | Death›Afterlife | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Honor | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Affirmation | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Figures of Speech›Locked | Figures of Speech›Wild breath | Language›Fragments | Language›yes Yes Yes yes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Atmospheric›Firelight | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›Winter
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Mental›Unaware | Movement›Running | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Verbal›Calling | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Wishing
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Chair | Objects›Fire | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 97 (Event)
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
The Town, 304 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Money›Wasting | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 321 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Morals›Justice | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Present-time reference
The Town, 335 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Legal›Will
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
The Town, 337 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defeat
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Female stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Secret