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Literary quiz

By Philip Howard
The Times
By Philip Howard
The Times

1 PORKIES

Who wrote:

a. “Just about as much right as pigs have to fly”?

b. “Some men there are love not a gaping pig”?

c. “And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws”?

2 GRAMMAR

Is asyndeton:

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a. Lack of connections?

b. Assonance?

c. Internal rhyme?

3 WHO CAN THEY MEAN?

a. “——— never learned the art of doing little things with grace” — Sam Johnson.

b. “Our Language sunk under him” — Joseph Addison.

c. “A little heavy, but no less divine” — Lord Byron.

4 TOPOGRAPHY

What trinity connects

Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Thackeray and A. E. Housman?