Elizabeth (1998)

Up in the air(2009)
a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is centered on a corporate "downsizer" Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his travels. The film follows his isolated life and philosophies and the people he meets along the way. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities. Several scenes were filmed in Detroit, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Miami, Florida.

Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something, or vice-versa. An example is referring to workers as hired hands.

Boys and Girls
A short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles.

Roman Fever
A short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton's last short-story collection, The World OveR

mal- :bad

e.g. :malcious, malfunction

bene- :good

e.g. : beneficial, benefic

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e.g. : bronchitis, gastritis

ter- :earth

e.g.: terra,terrain

magni-: enlarge

e.g. : magnify