Statement A: True.
"A mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphoric vehicles."
- A mixed metaphor occurs when two or more incompatible metaphors are used together, often leading to confusion or absurd imagery.
Example: "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it."
→ "burn that bridge" + "come to it" are clashing metaphoric images.
Statement B: False.
"In metonymy, a part of something is used to signify the whole."
- This is actually the definition of synecdoche, not metonymy.
Synecdoche: A part represents the whole or vice versa.
e.g., "All hands on deck" (hands = sailors).
Metonymy: A related concept represents the thing.
e.g., "The pen is mightier than the sword" (pen = writing, sword = warfare).
Statement C: False.
"To scan a passage of verse is to go through it line by line to analyze its content, theme and diction."
- Scanning (or scansion) refers specifically to analyzing the meter and rhythmic pattern of a verse — not content, theme, or diction.
You mark stresses, feet, syllable patterns, etc.
Statement D: True.
"The term ‘kenning’ denotes the recurrent use, in the poems written in old Germanic languages, of a descriptive phrase in place of the ordinary name for something."
- A kenning is a figurative, often compound expression used in Old English and Old Norse poetry.
e.g., "whale-road" for sea, "battle-sweat" for blood.
Statement E: True.
"Figurative language is often divided into two categories: Tropes and Schemes."
Tropes: Deviation in meaning (e.g., metaphor, irony, metonymy).
Schemes: Deviation in form or word order (e.g., alliteration, parallelism, chiasmus).
This is a classical rhetorical classification from ancient rhetoric.
Correct Option: 1. A, D, E
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