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Literature by Letter - D

Can you identify these answers related to literature that start with the letter D?
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Author of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Oliver Twist"
Charles Dickens
1897 book by Bram Stoker
Dracula
She visited the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy
What Anne Frank was famous for writing
Diary
Lines spoken between characters
Dialogue
Author of "Inferno", "Purgatorio", and "Paradiso"
Dante
Ill-fated wife of Othello
Desdemona
Famous Emily Dickinson line: "Because I could not stop for _____ he kindly stopped for me"
Death
Oscar Wilde character whose portrait aged while he did not
Dorian Gray
Unrealistic resolution to a seemingly hopeless situation
Deus ex Machina
Trilogy about factions Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Erudite, and Abnegation
Divergent
The opposite of utopia (a common trope of young adult literature such as the above)
Dystopia
Fantasy western series written by Stephen King
Dark Tower, The
Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theatre
Dionysus
Elizabeth Bennet's love interest in "Pride & Prejudice"
Mr. Darcy
British author of "James and the Giant Peach" and "Matilda"
Roald Dahl
The events following the climax of a story in which the final resolution occurs
Dénouement
City in which James Joyce's "Ulysses" is set
Dublin
Cervantes's most famous work
Don Quixote
Book of short stories by Boccaccio, told during the era of the Black Death
Decameron, the
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18 Comments
Zooty
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Level 69
Dec 16, 2016
Nice quizzes! Will you go through all the letters?
Kestrana
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Level 59
Dec 16, 2016
Most of them. There's a couple that would need to be combine to avoid having exceptionally obscure answers.
AlejandroAP
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Level 87
Dec 16, 2016
Great quiz!
kalbahamut
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2017
Again, dystopia, at least in it's original sense, is not the opposite of utopia. It is a scenario where things *seem* like they might be a utopia, at least at first glance... but where something is off or not quite right. Hey, we have enough soylent green to feed everyone, that's great.. but... what's it made of? Hey, everyone in this future is young and beautiful and things seem great... but... that's weird.. why is it nobody is over 30 years old and what's this Carrousel you're talking about? Hey cool.. an interactive theme park where we can pretend to be cowboys and do anything we want and nobody ever gets hurt... or do they? etc. these are examples of dystopian stories. Not the Hunger Games, where... everything just sucks.
alieninvasion109
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Level 24
Mar 12, 2017
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Quizmaster
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Level ∞
May 10, 2026
Sorry, no. This is an attempt to be hypercorrect, ignoring actual usage of the word.

While a dystopia can mean a corrupted utopia (Brave New World), it is more commonly used to mean the opposite of utopia (1984).

By the same token, only a miserable pedant would say that decimate means "to reduce by 10%".

stone222
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Level 47
Oct 20, 2018
i kept trying dinotopia....but eventually realised what was needed
EcceHomo
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Level 86
Dec 14, 2020
...and yet 85% of takers got it.
MVal
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Level 55
Mar 2, 2021
From "Utopia" on Wikipedia: "The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia..."
PitifulExcuse
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Level 65
May 14, 2024
Have you got any references for that meaning? I've never seen it used with that specific meaning and none of the dictionaries I've consulted have it.

e.g. "an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic." Oxford Dictionary of English

"an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives" Merriam-Webster

skukka
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Level 57
May 10, 2018
I really enjoy your literature quizzes, great work!
redsplat
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Level 72
Nov 24, 2018
Agreed, these are great! Literature needs a badge!
marjobro
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Level 66
Jul 15, 2021
Love these quizzes.....It's been 40 years since I earned (?) a degree in humanities/literature, so l appreciated this check-up.

I can say "day-new-ma" but sure couldn't spell it!

Triffid
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Level 67
Aug 4, 2022
I wouldn't describe The Dark Tower as a "western". Sounds like somebody only looked at the title of the first book.
reverendmeat
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Level 87
Feb 5, 2023
The Gunslinger is based on western tropes and multiple books in the series have similar settings and structure as well. It's not a perfect description but it's not hugely inaccurate
Koopa
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Level 88
Oct 22, 2022
Very fun--5 stars.
Angelodevries
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Level 64
Aug 1, 2024
It feels almost illegal to not add a question about Dostoyevsky.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
May 10, 2026
"Crime and Punishment" is used on C.

Can't be repetitive or people will complain.

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