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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Macbeth
Bronte Sisters
Joseph Conrad
multi-media
2. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Hagia Sophia
Baroque Period
Blank Verse
3. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
Mary McCarthy
Ernest Hemingway
Reliquary
4. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Arnold Schoenberg
Edmund Spenser
Maia/Fauna
Mark Twain
5. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Aubrey Beardsley
Alliteration
Dante Aligheri
madrigal
6. Repititions of geometric lines
Brahmans
pieta
American Indian Rugs
Handel
7. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Reliquary
Le Corbusier
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
The Pigeon House
8. Repititions of geometric lines
Neo-classic period
Martha Graham
American Indian Rugs
Andrew Wyeth
9. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Free Verse
aside
Medieval Architecture
Alexander Dumas
10. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Hera/Juno
Michelangelo
Blank Verse
American Indian Rugs
11. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.
Serialism
Irony
Monet
andante
12. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Charles Dickens
Handel
Soliloquy
The Panthenon
13. God of Wine and Theatre
Edvard Greig
gouche
Dionysus/Bacchus
tempura
14. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Personification
Impressionistic Art came before
Alexander Dumas
Thales
15. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
Renaissance
oratorio
Serge Diaghilev
Degas
16. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
Andrew Wyeth
chalice
Frank Lloyd Wright
17. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
alexander calder
Federico Fellini
Celtic Art
Pablo Picasso
18. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Surrealism
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Lorraine Hansberry
19. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Simone De Beauvoir
Aphrodite/Venus
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Ray Bradbury
20. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Joseph Conrad
Degas
Verdi and Puccini
21. Fast
Thomas Edison
Buddhists
allegro
El Greco
22. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Joseph Conrad
Abstraction
Ionic
Christopher Marlowe
23. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Victor Hugo
Roman Basilica
korai
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
24. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
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25. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Alexander Dumas
Dante Aligheri
Johannes Brahms
Charles Dickens
26. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Zeus/Jupiter
Claude Monet
gothic age architecture
Mathew Brady
27. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mies van der Rohe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aaron Copeland
28. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Henri Matisse
Beethoven & Wagner
Pilgrim's Progress
Delacroix
29. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Le Corbusier
pop art
Tchaikovsky
30. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
flying buttress
Book of Durrow
Persian Rugs
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
31. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
pop art
Chopin
Socrates
32. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Bernini
Baroque art
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
T.S. Eliot
33. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Charles Dickens
Remington
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Joan Miro
34. Spanish surrealist painter
Renaissance
Salvador Dali
Poseidon/Neptune
Mannerism
35. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Atomists
Renoir
James Boswell
36. Wrote operas
Eisenstein
Phoebus/Apollo
Hestia/Vesta
Verdi and Puccini
37. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
alexander calder
Remington
Victor Hugo
Pavane and the Polonaise
38. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
alexander calder
Jules Verne
Joan Miro
39. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
obelisk
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
hagia sophia
40. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely
Eros/Cupid
french female pose
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Georg W. F. Hegel
41. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Raphael
Honore de Balzac
Spondaic Pattern
Leo Tolstoy
42. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
Da Vinci
Andre Previn
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
43. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Giotto
Eisenstein
Tchaikovsky
Bernini
44. French impressionist painter
Monet
Martha Graham
William Shakespeare
Chalice
45. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
New Orleans
Dionysus/Bacchus
Alexander Dumas
46. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Arthur Miller
Parmenides
Penny Marshall
Gilbert and Sullivan
47. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Edvard Greig
Josiah Wedgewood
Rembrandt
48. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl
Mannerism
El Greco
flying buttress
D.W. Griffith
49. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Leo Tolstoy
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
ballet
50. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
neo-classic period
Heptameter
Romanesque Style
dada school