Superheroes Quiz 1

Question 1

Research Question

Answer 1

contemporary superheroes in films and tv

Question 2

Golden Age

Answer 2

1930s comics related to economy, US getting out of Great Depression, kids had extra money to spend on comics, heroes based on chemicals and real life events and novels

Question 3

Silver Age

Answer 3

Time period where audiences started to learn about radiation and radiation started to be used in hero origin stories, X+radiation=superheroes

Question 4

Where are original comics from?

Answer 4

classical literature, pulp fiction, based on popular literature

Question 5

Frederick Wertham

Answer 5

wrote the book The Seduction of the Innocent which was called the second red scare and there were a lot of communists included in American media

Question 6

Why DC over Marvel?

Answer 6

DC was based on actual events and stories and not just because of chemicals and radiation

Question 7

What is The Splash?

Answer 7

Panel page, larger and different in shape, first thing you see in old comics and included somewhere in the beginning in new comics, includes hero’s name in big letter, description of story, and both author’s names

Question 8

Why 2 authors?

Answer 8

One for graphics, one for story

Question 9

Retcon

Answer 9

retroactive continuity, take same character come up with new origin story with new civilian identity, powers may alter, often used when original heroes die off and they remake them and make popular again

Question 10

Gardner Fox

Answer 10

created Jay Garrick’s Flash, didn’t want his Flash to be forgotten so he created the multiverse

Question 11

Character attributes

Answer 11

powers, suits, where they live, they’re friends, social network

Question 12

Adaptation Theory

Answer 12

focuses on when you change content from one medium to another, books to movies

Question 13

Single Composite Character

Answer 13

made up of multiple parts; Superman is some aspects of Doc Savage and other characters, multiple source character

Question 14

Multiple Cognate Character

Answer 14

single source character, The Flash is reincarnated from Winged Mercury, and Hermes, and Quicksilver, they are all cognates/siblings

Question 15

Fiction/genre

Answer 15

category or type of literature

Question 16

Convention

Answer 16

characteristics of the culture in films

Question 17

4 conventions of fiction

Answer 17

setting, character, plot, narration

Question 18

Setting

Answer 18

time, place, world building (how do people live in that time and place/how they dress, routines, type of work, recreation, transportation used, food eaten, tech available)

Question 19

Character

Answer 19

protagonist, antagonist, allies, static, dynamic, flat character, round character, stock character

Question 20

Plot

Answer 20

5 stages, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

Question 21

Narration

Answer 21

4 main perspectives, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, omniscient narrator, limited omniscient narrator, reliable narrator, unreliable narrator

Question 22

Protagonist

Answer 22

hero/main character/character narrator follows around

Question 23

Antagonist

Answer 23

villain/someone against protagonist/opposes protagonist

Question 24

Allies

Answer 24

people around protagonist and antagonist

Question 25

Static

Answer 25

character that never changes

Question 26

Dynamic

Answer 26

character that often changes because of events that happen during plot

Question 27

Flat

Answer 27

not psychologically developed, know nothing about them serve function in story and then is gone

Question 28

Round

Answer 28

psychologically well developed, we understand why they do what they do, past experiences influenced their present, thinking process

Question 29

Stock

Answer 29

character based on stereotype

Question 30

Exposition

Answer 30

introduction, background, backstory

Question 31

Rising Action

Answer 31

protagonist and antagonist meet for the first time on friendly terms and then they have an argument that builds into a big deal

Question 32

Climax

Answer 32

turning point, major confrontation between an antagonist

Question 33

Falling Action

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consequences of climax, protagonist and antagonist and their respective allies

Question 34

Resolution

Answer 34

final or end stage of what happens to protagonist and antagonist/closure, living happily ever after

Question 35

In Medias Res

Answer 35

flashback, old variation of plot, inserted in the middle of rising action, telling the story out of chronological order

Question 36

Rising Action Expands

Answer 36

second variation of plot, rising action expands and falling action contracts

Question 37

1st person

Answer 37

refer to themselves with first person pronouns, I, we, me, mine

Question 38

2nd person

Answer 38

refers to themselves in second person pronouns, you

Question 39

3rd person

Answer 39

refer to themselves in third person pronouns, he, she, his, her, them

Question 40

Omniscient narrator

Answer 40

all knowing narrator

Question 41

Limited Omniscient Narrator

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has limitations because they must obey laws of physics

Question 42

Reliable Narrator

Answer 42

unbiased, no exaggeration, trustworthy

Question 43

Unreliable Narrator

Answer 43

usually the villain and they may lie, feel guilty, trick reader, possible mental illness, substance use