When the snow froze over into ice, it caused quite the catastrophe for the parking lot. The ice was so heavy, it caused the
branches to break from the trees and onto the parked cars. In addition to the broken windshields, the floor to the lot was covered in
debris and other particles. This was abnormal weather for this time of the year.
Using your knowledge of Greek and Latin roots, what is the meaning of the word abnormal in the passage above?
A.
Cold
B. Not normal
Normally
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When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.