CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -After an Oxford education, Fowler was a schoolmaster until his middle age and then worked in London as a freelance writer and journalist, but was not very successful. In partnership with his brother Francis, beginning in 1906, he began publishing seminal grammar, style and lexicography books.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Fowler was a writer and he had come to meet Ausable. Fowler’s first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable’s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.

Detailed explanation-3: -English: occupational name for a fowler a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation) from Middle English fogheler fugheler (Old English fugelere a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Fowler was a young and romantic writer who had come to meet Ausable. He experienced his first authentic thrill of the day when he saw an unknown man in Ausable’s room pointing a small automatic pistol towards him and Ausable.

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