Select the four prepositional phrases. Rose tied a blindfold around Ezra's eyes and placed the bat in his hands. Then, as everyone began to cheer wildly, she guided him to the piñata, which was nearly bursting with candy.​

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Rose tied a blindfold around Ezra's eyes and placed the bat in his hands. Then, as everyone began to cheer wildly, she guided him to the piñata, which was nearly bursting with candy.​

Explanation:

A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition and an object, that is, the preposition's complement. Its function is, mostly, to modify a verb or a noun. To find prepositional phrases in a sentence, first we must locate the prepositions themselves. Among the most common ones, we have: to, from, of, by, around, about, with, in, on, at.

In the sentences we are analyzing here, there are four prepositional sentences. They are:

around Ezra's eyes

in his hands

to the piñata

with candy

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.