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Literary quiz

by Philip Howard
The Times
by Philip Howard
The Times

1 WHODUNNIT?

“Ah lovely appearance of death!/ What sight upon earth is so fair?/ Not all the gay pageants that breathe/ Can with a dead body compare.”

2 GRAMMAR

Is anacoluthon? a. A gigantic water-boa b. Personification c. Broken syntax

3 GEOG

Jane Austen died here. Izaak Walton lived here. Keats wrote here. The Romans called it Venta Belgarum. Where?

4 WHO SHE?

“I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses” — Charlotte Brontë.

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