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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
Hamlet
Scott Joplin
Apostrophe
2. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Alliteration
El Greco
Edmund Spenser
3. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Pieta
Johannes Brahms
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lorraine Hansberry
4. Laborer caste in Hinduism
Maia/Fauna
Shudras
Simone Martini
Arthur Miller
5. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Mary Shelley
Flying buttress
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Edvard Greig
6. Leucippus and Democritus
Neoplatonism
A short syllable
Atomists
James Joyce
7. 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
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lillian Gish
Andrea Palladio
Mies van der Rohe
8. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Neolithic
Mary Wollstonecraft
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
William Wordsworth
9. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Victor Hugo
fresco
Johannes Brahms
Allegory
10. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Immanuel Kant
Vermeer
Salvador Dali
11. Science fiction writer
Ares/Mars
Othello
Serialism
Issac Asimov
12. French impressionist painter
Renoir
T.S. Eliot
Atomists
Monet
13. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Raphael
Neoclassicism
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
dada school
14. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Epicureans
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Edmund Spenser
Samuel Beckett
15. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Edmund Spenser
Tyche/Fortuna
Transcendentalism
Church of San Vitale
16. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Atomism
Merchant of Venice
Zeus/Jupiter
Renaissance
17. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
pop art
Cubism
constantin brancusi
scrim
18. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Chopin
Stravinsky
Didactic-ism
Francois Rabelais
19. The Color Purple
Andrew Wyeth
Alice Walker
Thomas Gainsborough
Obelisk
20. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Pilgrim's Progress
James Boswell
21. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
James Boswell
Delacroix
Francesco Petrarch
Donatello
22. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
fresco
Trimeter
Rembrandt
Ray Bradbury
23. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Seurat
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Mark Twain
Post and Lintel
24. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Joan Miro
Henry Dixon Cowell
Minimalist Music
Celtic Art
25. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Serge Diaghilev
Aphrodite/Venus
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Doric
26. A capella singers
Othello
E.E. Cummings
Persian Rugs
madrigal
27. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Mary Shelley
Francois Rabelais
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
pieta
28. Wrote Rivals
Personification
Thomas Edison
Claude Debussy
Richard Sheridan
29. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Eros/Cupid
Gouche
Peter Paul Rubens
Sitar
30. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
presto
gothic age architecture
Minimalist Music
Jane Austen
31. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Eisenstein
Arnold Schoenberg
scrim
Serge Diaghilev
32. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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33. 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
Georg W. F. Hegel
Dionysus/Bacchus
A long syllable
Edvard Greig
34. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Ionic
Federico Fellini
Neo-classic period
Verdi and Puccini
35. Goddess of Hunting
Simone De Beauvoir
louise nevelson
Edmund Spenser
Artemis/Diana
36. God of love and beauty
Hermes/Mercury
Aphrodite/Venus
T.S. Eliot
Eugene O'Neil
37. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
John Locke
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens
Anapestic Pattern
38. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Arthur Miller
William Shakespeare
Remington
New Orleans
39. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hades/Pluto
Aaron Copeland
The Pigeon House
40. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
French female pose
louise nevelson
Peter Paul Rubens
Henry Dixon Cowell
41. Court dances
George Sand
Da Vinci
IM Pei
Pavane and the Polonaise
42. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Christopher Wren
Chartres Cathedral
Greek Ionic
Epic
43. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
obelisk
flying buttress
Mathew Brady
Vermeer
44. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Vermeer
Hector Berlioz
Degas
High Renaissance Painters
45. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Plato
Rene Descartes
Lorraine Hansberry
flying buttress
46. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Aubrey Beardsley
Picasso
bel canto
Andrew Wyeth
47. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Aristotle
Romanesque Style
ballet
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
48. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
dada school
Arnold Schoenberg
Jane Austen
Ernest Hemingway
49. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Aside
Rhymed Verse
Renaissance Art
Leo Tolstoy
50. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
James Boswell
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Arnold Schoenberg
Eisenstein