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Botticelli is a guessing game where one person or team thinks of a famous person and reveals the initial letter of their name, and then answers yes–no questions to allow other players to guess the identity. It requires the players to have a good knowledge of biographical details of famous people.
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NOTE: Some characters do not neatly conform to gender binary/cisnormativity-bias: these may dual-identify and may be included in multiple categories. Subcategories This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1] He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and "The Purloined Letter" (1844).
Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. [1] Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured antihero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him; in short, the Byronic hero.
In fiction, a character is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). [1] [2] [3] The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. [2]
The unnamed female narrator of the novel Mating (1992) by Norman Rush; graduate student of anthropology [2] Olivia is a minor character in The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, 2013. Unnamed team of ethnologists and graduate students mentioned in the science-fiction novel Ports of Call by Jack Vance. On the planet Terce, all were eaten by the ...