LP 11

Question 1

mutiny

Answer 1

noun verb
forcible or passive resistance to lawful authority
or resisting rebel

she mutinied against the officer who told her to stop killing people

Question 2

Immured

Answer 2

verb
to enclose within or as if within walls

the animals are immured by their rooms at the zoo

Question 3

Strident

Answer 3

adj
harsh sounding
his strident tone made me know he was mad

Question 4

Mortify

Answer 4

verb
to subject to severe
embarrassment

Question 5

Officious

Answer 5

adj
1: volunteering one’s services where they are neither askednor needed
meddlesome

Question 6

Baffle

Answer 6

verb
frustrated

Question 7

Anachronism

Answer 7

noun
an error in chronology, misplacing of even in history

the movie about WW2 had many anachronisms

Question 8

Arid

Answer 8

adj
dry specificly regions

Question 9

Mundane

Answer 9

adj
ordinary

the mundane concerns of day-to-day life

Question 10

Illustrate

Answer 10

verb

draw demonstrate

Question 11

interim

Answer 11

temporary

interim cheif

Question 12

Rouse

Answer 12

verb

AWAKEN

she was roused from sleep with her mother screams

Question 13

Anastrophe

Answer 13

DO-S-TV
constructions: chocolate I like as opposed to I like chocolate

Question 14

parallelism

Answer 14

The presentation of several ideas of equal importance by putting each of them into the same kind of
grammatical structure.

To think carefully and to write precisely are interrelated goals

Question 15

Antithesis

Answer 15

• Contrasts two ideas by placing them next to each other, always in a parallel structure

Man disposes, God proposes.
Women cry; men die.

Question 16

Asyndeton

Answer 16

only commas to list things
The fruit market displayed apples, peaches, pears, nectarines.

Question 17

Polysyndeton

Answer 17

• The use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause
  Within six hours, the computer virus had spread worldwide, infecting mail servers and Web
  servers and home users and business networks.