Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct ones:

1. A. A mixed metaphor conjoins two or more obviously diverse metaphoric vehicles.
2. B. In metonymy, a part of something is used to signify the whole.
3. C. To scan a passage of verse is to go through it line by line to analyse its content, theme and diction.
4. D. The term 'kenning' denotes the recurrent use, in poems in Old Germanic languages, of a descriptive phrase in place of the ordinary name for something.
5. E. Figurative language is often divided into two categories: tropes and schemes.

1. AA, D and E only
2. BB, C and E only
3. CB, C and D only
4. DA, B and D only

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Correct answer: A. A, D and E only

Explanation

A, D and E follow Abrams' Glossary — e.g. a kenning like 'whale-road' for the sea. B is wrong: part-for-whole is synecdoche; metonymy uses an associated thing ('the Crown' for the monarch). C is wrong: scansion analyses metre — feet and stresses — not content.