English Language · English Literature
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. Assertion A: In Thomas Gray's line 'The plowman homeward plods his weary way,' the adjective 'weary' indicates that the path itself experiences physical exhaustion. Reason R: Transferred Epithet, or hypallage, is a figure of speech where an adjective is grammatically applied to the wrong noun, transferring a quality from a person to an object. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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- 1A is not correct but R is correct✓
- 2A is correct but R is not correct
- 3Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
- 4Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
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A is not correct but R is correct
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