Answer:
stench
Explanation:
the fact that the person is "grimacing" at the smell of the cooking tells you that it's a (bad) stench, where the other 3 options usually are associated with more pleasant smells
we know that
A kenning is a figurative expression that substitutes a name or a noun. It is usually a compound of two words and words have scripts. The Kennings are associated with the poetry of the ancient Norse, Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon.
Examples
First Lady - wife of the president
Four-eyes = someone who wears glasses
therefore
the answer is the option
A) a kenning.
A descriptive passage that might reveal more information about Silas could be the following;
<span>"Strangely Marner’s face and figure shrank and bent themselves into a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life, so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart. The prominent eyes that used to look trusting and dreamy, now looked as if they had been made to see only one kind of thing that was very small, like tiny grain, for which they hunted everywhere; and he was so withered and yellow, that, though he was not yet forty, the children always called him “Old Master Marner.” (chapter 2)
</span>From this excerpt, the reader might get to know that he lives a mechanical life in the industrialized world so he seems to be dehumanized just for the fact that he lives to work and get money. It could be also perceived that his eyesight had been damaged because of work but his ability to see goes beyond the literal meaning of it. he is also deteriorated both physically, mentally and spiritual
