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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. One-foot line
Eugene O'Neil
Stephen Crane
Monometer
Tchaikovsky
2. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Neoplatonism
Pythagoras
3. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Victor Hugo
Mies van der Rohe
Honore de Balzac
4. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
Poseidon/Neptune
Federico Fellini
Post Impressionism
5. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Frank Lloyd Wright
Apostrophe
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Hellenistic Period
6. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Salvador Dali
Remington
Imagery
chalice
7. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
aside
Obelisk
Mary Shelley
William Faulkner
8. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Allegory
Vincent van Gogh
Jane Austen
9. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Jackson Pollock
gouche
High Renaissance Painters
alexander calder
10. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
King Lear
Victor Hugo
Aubrey Beardsley
High Renaissance
11. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Mathew Brady
korai
tragic figure
12. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Edvard Greig
Metaphor
D.W. Griffith
Verdi and Puccini
13. Short-Short-Long
Anapestic Pattern
El Greco
allegro
Libretto
14. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Victor Hugo
Pavane and the Polonaise
Scrim
T.S. Eliot
15. Pre-Socrates
Jane Austen
Pythagoras
Apostrophe
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
16. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Vincent van Gogh
Lionel Hampton
Augustine Age
Macbeth
17. God of love and beauty
Aphrodite/Venus
Kshatriyas
Islam
Botticelli
18. 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.
renaissance
Atomism
Persian Rugs
Salvador Dali
19. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Meter
michelangelo
Rembrandt
20. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Delacroix
Aubrey Beardsley
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
21. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Federico Fellini
Serge Diaghilev
Zeno
Stravinsky
22. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
Church of San Vitale
Da Vinci
23. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Book of Kells
Langston Hughes
Gilbert and Sullivan
Surrealism
24. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Neoplatonism
Bronte Sisters
Pieta
25. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Lindisfarne Gospel
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Andrew Wyeth
Raphael
26. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Mannerism
Scott Joplin
Post and Lintel
Francois Rabelais
27. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Victor Hugo
Charles Dickens
Hestia/Vesta
French female pose
28. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
29. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
The Pigeon House
Greek Doric
Brunelleschi
Gothic age architecture
30. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Pieta
Aristotle
constantin brancusi
George Sand
31. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Delacroix
pop art
Arthur Miller
Edmund Spenser
32. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Alfred Hitchcock
mannerism
Bayeux tapestry
Arnold Schoenberg
33. School of nonsense and anti-art
dada school
Anapestic Pattern
Pilgrim's Progress
Post Impressionism
34. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism
Andrea Palladio
El Greco
Claude Monet
Arnold Schoenberg
35. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Martha Graham
Hagia Sophia
Fauvism
Flying buttresses
36. Court dances
renaissance
Pavane and the Polonaise
Thomas Gainsborough
Jules Verne
37. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Aphrodite/Venus
Peter Paul Rubens
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Zeus/Jupiter
38. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Dactylic
Joan Miro
Geoffrey Chaucer
Greek Corinthian
39. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Socrates
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aristotle
Hans-Georg Gadamer
40. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Donatello
Jonathan Swift
Henrik Ibsen
Zeno
41. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Wyeth
Brussels tapestries
Heraclitus
Mary Shelley
42. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
reliquary
William Shakespeare
43. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Remington
sitar
The Pigeon House
mosaics
44. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Le Corbusier
Mathew Brady
The Pigeon House
William Shakespeare
45. Seven-foot line
George Sand
Richard Sheridan
Heptameter
chalice
46. French 20th century architect
Le Corbusier
Theme
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Monet
47. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Honore de Balzac
Hector Berlioz
Brussels tapestries
Vermeer
48. A capella singers
James Boswell
flying buttress
madrigal
Henry Dixon Cowell
49. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Hestia/Vesta
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
neo-classic period
50. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Artemis/Diana
andante
Paleolithic
Thales
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