FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 23 Quiz

Answer: There's more than one ending.

"Sugarcane Island" (1976) is the first "Choose Your Own Adventure" book.

Question by player NTBM

Answer: foreshadowing

In a work of fiction, narrative devices serve the purpose of moving the plot forward. One of the oldest of these devices, foreshadowing gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later in the story. While it can be provided by the title itself, foreshadowing is most often accomplished by an event in the narrative, such as a prophecy or a dream. Some of the best-known examples of foreshadowing through prophecy appear in Shakespeare's works - notably "Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar". The device is also frequently used in modern fantasy literature: prominent examples are found in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series.

Deus ex machina refers to an improbable event that brings the story to an end, while a red herring is something that leads to a false conclusion, and a cliffhanger is a dangerous or shocking situation that occurs at the very end of a narrative.

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: Tom Sawyer

The events in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are a continuation of the events in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", which makes the former a sequel to the latter. Both books were written by Mark Twain.

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Don Quixote is the main character in the book "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, and Jesus is from The Bible.

Question by player hotdogPi

Answer: Roots: the Saga of an American Family

"Roots: the Saga of an American Family" was written by American author Alex Haley, and was loosely based on his family's history.
"Roots", the mini-series, first aired in 1977, and starred Levar Burton as Kunta Kinte, a Gambian-born slave, who is later captured and sent to Maryland, USA to work as a slave on a plantation.

Question by player trumpygirl

Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car

Ian Fleming created "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for his son Caspar and it was first published in 1964 and was turned into a film in 1968. "1984" is a novel written by George Orwell and published in 1949 and created the phrase "Big Brother is Watching You". "Brave New World" is a novel by Aldous Huxley and was first published in 1932. We all know "Hamlet" and who wrote it.

Question by player matthewpokemon

Answer: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" kicks off William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which famously continues, "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." The other three phrases all come from the first lines of three of Donne's "Holy Sonnets" or "Divine Meditations".

This collection of nineteen sonnets, most of which were written in the Petrarchan style, was published two years after the poet's death.

Question by player skylarb

Answer: Harper Lee

Capote was quoted as saying that Lee's character of Boo Radley from "To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on a real person in their hometown. Capote's book "Other Voices, Other Rooms," includes a character named Idabell Thompkins who was based on his recollections of Harper Lee.

Question by player pusdoc

Answer: Silence

Sue Grafton was born in Kentucky in 1940. One of her parents, C.W. Grafton was also a writer of crime fiction.

Question by player rubytops

Answer: Horton

Horton is an elephant created by Theodor Geisel, under his pen name Dr. Seuss, in "Horton Hatches an Egg" (1940). In the story, Horton is fooled by a bird, Mayzie, into sitting on her egg while she leaves town for Palm Beach. Even when he figures out that he has been tricked, he does not back away from his promise. Babar the Elephant was created by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 and figured in many French children's books. Dumbo was a Walt Disney creation. George and Martha are hippopotamuses who are best friends, created by James Marshall for a series of books (1972-1988) which were adapted to an animated children's television programme in 1999 and to a stage musical in 2011.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft wrote on various topics, but is best remembered for his horror novels. His best known creature is Cthulhu.

Question by player Starlord