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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






2. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






3. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






4. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






5. Fast






6. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






7. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.






8. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






9. Eight-foot line






10. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)






11. Wrote Rivals






12. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






13. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






14. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






15. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second






16. 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






17. God of the sea






18. I and the Village






19. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






20. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






21. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






22. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo






23. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






24. DNA of the song






25. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.






26. One-foot line






27. A dance






28. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






29. Leucippus and Democritus






30. Goddess of Agriculture






31. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






32. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






33. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






34. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






35. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones






36. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






37. Painted 'The Bathers'






38. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






39. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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40. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine






41. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






42. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






43. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado






44. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






45. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






46. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






47. Goddess of Fortune






48. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






49. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






50. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier