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A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence as in the following examples:
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Tells what the subject does, is, or has.
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Jean will sing
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| Latin "year" ex.anniversary |
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| Greek "ruler" ex. anarchy |
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| Greek "star" ex.astrology |
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| Greek "self ex.autobiography |
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| Greek "life" ex.biography |
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| Latin "head" ex.capitalize |
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| Latin "hundred" ex.century |
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| Greek "universe" ex.cosmic |
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| Latin "believe" ex.creditable |
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| Latin "speak" ex.contradict |
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| Greek "write" ex.autobiography |
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| Greek "letter" ex.cardiogram |
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| Latin "law" ex. injury, justice, judge |
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| Latin "light" ex.illuminate, lucid, luster |
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| Greek "measure" ex.diameter |
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| Latin "Write" describe, inscription |
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| Latin "conquer" convince, victory |
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| Latin "see" video, vision |
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| Latin "live" revive, vital |
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| has a second meaning beneath the surface one. The author's major interest is in the ulterior meaning |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds "Free and easy" |
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| The use of something as a metaphorical image that is closely related to the thing actually meant "the order came from the whitehouse"...meaning from the president |
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| An apparent contradiction that is true "It is a shame that youth is wasted on the young" |
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| Opposites, a paradox in 2 words "Jumbo shrimp" |
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| Colonial years literature to the 1800's (authors) |
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Bradford,Bradstreet,Edwards,Jefferson,Mather,Paine,Rowlandson,Wheatley,Winthrop
records of exploration and conquest |
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| Neoclassical age of literature (authors)1706-1790 |
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Franklin
instructs and entertains |
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| Romanticism authors 1800's |
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Cullen Bryant,Finimore Cooper,Douglas, Hawthorne, Wadsworth Longfellow,Edgar Allen Poe, Irving, Melville,Henry David Thoreau, Whittier
Stressed the inherent goodness of mankind and its place in rustic nature |
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| Realism (late 1800's, early 1900's) |
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Choplin, Dickinson, Twain,Witman
emphasizes the truthfulness of reality vs. imagination |
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| Naturalism authors 1900's |
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Elliot, Cane, Frost, London,Norris, Wolfe
extreme realism, phenomena is knowable from a scientific perspective |
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Hughes, Steinback
existentialism based |
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| Post Modernism late 1900's |
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