Fictional Character and Superhero Quiz

Fictional Character and Superhero Quiz
Author: Stella Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Discover New WorldsIn the age of easy access to diverse entertainment, fans of fictional characters are more powerful than ever before.The success of the MCU is a case in point. Fans of the comic book characters propelled the series to more than 10 billion dollars in gross revenue, and the fictional universe looks poised to capture even more eyeballs (and wallets) with its forays into streaming TV and further movie phases. The future is bright!And that's not the only Extended Universe that has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of dedicated fans across the globe today. The Wizarding World, the DC Extended Universe, the LotR fandom, and multiple anime virtual worlds are just a few of the many franchises that bring joy to people in 200 different countries!It's not just movies, books, and TV shows any more: as games become more and more cinematic, they are starting to tell rich and multi-layered stories, and create characters that diverse audiences identify with like never before. A simple plumber (Mario) now shares his world with fully 3D people and animals and objects that are each more interesting than the other. Games like Red Dead Redemption feel like the experience of a book translated into an interactive movie.Mythology is also an important source of the fictional characters to whom this book pays loving tribute. From the Greek Gods whose adventures thrilled us when we were little, to the Norse Gods who have been popularized by Comics and the Thor movies, to gods from African and American mythology, the ancient deities feature heavily in these pages!The puzzles in this book are easy to understand, but difficult to master. I will ease you in - the first few chapters contain trivia snippets and puzzles that are relatively easy, but I will ratchet up the difficulty level steadily, till the last few chapters have you learning about many new characters whom you never knew existed!And let's not forget about books. Since the invention of printing several centuries ago, hundreds of millions of books have been written, and many of them have left behind characters that live on in our minds, hearts, and souls long after their creator left the mortal world. Books - and literature - are often the source of the richest portrayals of men, women, and animals, and become the nuclei of extended universes in other forms of media.There are also quirky characters from the worlds of advertising and sports and country mascots: everything fictional can be found in this book, and you will love them all!In this book, you can test whether you are the biggest Fictional Character fan in the world. Anyone who can score above 85% on the puzzle challenges in this book is a legend.You will be entertained!

Fictional Characters, Real Problems

Fictional Characters, Real Problems
Author: Garry Hagberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198715714

These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.

Get to the Point!

Get to the Point!
Author: Joel Schwartzberg
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523094125

In this indispensable guide for anyone who must communicate in speech or writing, Schwartzberg shows that most of us fail to convince because we don't have a point-a concrete contention that we can argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. He lays out, step-by-step, how to develop one. In Joel's Schwartzberg's ten-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across-one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail-is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. A point is something more. It's a contention you can propose, argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. A point offers a position of potential value. Global warming is real is not a point. Scientific evidence shows that global warming is a real, human-generated problem that will have a devastating environmental and financial impact is a point. When we have a point, our influence snaps into place. We communicate belief, conviction, and urgency. This book shows you how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it and how to train others to identify and successfully make their own points.

Fictional Characters of Literature

Fictional Characters of Literature
Author: James Magee
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781450591140

This handy reference book is a literary quiz game that examines 960 fictional literary characters from classical novels written during six periods of Literature.

HISTORICAL FICTION

HISTORICAL FICTION
Author: NARAYAN CHANGDER
Publisher: CHANGDER OUTLINE
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

THE HISTORICAL FICTION MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE HISTORICAL FICTION MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR HISTORICAL FICTION KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY.

Advice to Writers

Advice to Writers
Author: Jon Winokur
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2000-05-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0679763414

In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.

To Best the Boys

To Best the Boys
Author: Mary Weber
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0718080971

The task is simple: Don a disguise. Survive the labyrinth . . . Best the boys. Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port have received a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see if their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope. In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition. With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone is ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze. Welcome to the labyrinth. Praise for To Best the Boys: “Atmospheric, romantic, inspiring.” —KRISTEN CICCARELLI, internationally bestselling author of The Last Namsara "Smart, determined, and ready to take on the world: Rhen Tellur is an outstanding heroine with every reason to win a competition historically intended for boys." —Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling author of The Incarnate Trilogy and coauthor of My Lady Jane A “Hunger Games/Handmaid’s Tale mash-up.” —BN Teen Blog

Fantasy and Science Fiction Heaven: 3000 Trivia Questions about Superheroes, Mythical Beings, and Book and Game Characters

Fantasy and Science Fiction Heaven: 3000 Trivia Questions about Superheroes, Mythical Beings, and Book and Game Characters
Author: Stella Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-05-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Imagination is SpecialIn the age of easy access to diverse entertainment, fans of fictional characters are more powerful than ever before.The success of the MCU is a case in point. Fans of the comic book characters propelled the series to more than 10 billion dollars in gross revenue, and the fictional universe looks poised to capture even more eyeballs (and wallets) with its forays into streaming TV and further movie phases. The future is bright!And that's not the only Extended Universe that has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of dedicated fans across the globe today. The Wizarding World, the DC Extended Universe, the LotR fandom, and multiple anime virtual worlds are just a few of the many franchises that bring joy to people in 200 different countries!It's not just movies, books, and TV shows any more: as games become more and more cinematic, they are starting to tell rich and multi-layered stories, and create characters that diverse audiences identify with like never before. A simple plumber (Mario) now shares his world with fully 3D people and animals and objects that are each more interesting than the other. Games like Red Dead Redemption feel like the experience of a book translated into an interactive movie.Mythology is also an important source of the fictional characters to whom this book pays loving tribute. From the Greek Gods whose adventures thrilled us when we were little, to the Norse Gods who have been popularized by Comics and the Thor movies, to gods from African and American mythology, the ancient deities feature heavily in these pages!The puzzles in this book are easy to understand, but difficult to master. I will ease you in - the first few chapters contain trivia snippets and puzzles that are relatively easy, but I will ratchet up the difficulty level steadily, till the last few chapters have you learning about many new characters whom you never knew existed!And let's not forget about books. Since the invention of printing several centuries ago, hundreds of millions of books have been written, and many of them have left behind characters that live on in our minds, hearts, and souls long after their creator left the mortal world. Books - and literature - are often the source of the richest portrayals of men, women, and animals, and become the nuclei of extended universes in other forms of media.There are also quirky characters from the worlds of advertising and sports and country mascots: everything fictional can be found in this book, and you will love them all!In this book, you can test whether you are the biggest Fictional Character fan in the world. Anyone who can score above 85% on the puzzle challenges in this book is a legend.You will be entertained!

Watchers

Watchers
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425221808

A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...