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6) Which of the following from "When Greek Meets Greek" contains an example of idiom?
A) "I know of a landlord up the road who vow that he ain't ever taking anybody who come from the West Indies."
B) "Sure, you stand a chance."
C) "I am an Untouchable from the heart of India."
D) "This house is to small for the two of we," Ram say to himself, "one will have to go."

7) Which of the following best describes the diction of this excerpt from "And of Clay Are We Created"?
"Much later, after soldiers and volunteers had arrived to rescue the living and try to access the magnitude of cataclysm, it was calculated that beneath the mud lay more than twenty thousand human beings and an infinite number of animals putrefying in a viscous soup."
A) Precise and formal
B) Simple and casual
C) Vivid and figurative
D) elevated and metaphorical

Answer 1

6) Of this examples, the sentence containing an idiom is B.

The phrase "stand a chance" does not have any meaning that can be deduced from the individual words. It was through usage that it acquired the meaning of "having the possibility of doing something".

7) The diction from the excerpt of "And of Clay Are We Created?" is C: vivid and figurative.

The words in this sentence creates a very vivid image of war, the soldiers' dispair and the dreadful image of bodies rotting in the mud.

At the same time, the tone is figurative because the author uses the word "infinite" to express that there was a great amount of dead animals; and uses the expression "viscous soup" to refer to the mixture of rotting bodies, dead animals and mud.

Answer 2

The answer to question 6 is B. You stand a chance is an idiom to say that someone has a possibility to something. An idiom is an expression that doesn't adapt to grammatical rules or the literal usage of the words, "stand a chance" doesn't make sense if one reads each word as literal, stand as a verb wouldn't be referring to a chance.

And the answer to question is C. Vivid means that it produces intense mental images and figuratve that a word isn't being used completely literally. Both can be seen in the phrase "putrefying in a viscous soup" for example