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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






2. Messenger of the Gods and Finance






3. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations






4. 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






5. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






6. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later






7. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






8. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h






9. Pre-Socrates






10. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft






11. 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






12. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






13. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






14. Rebirth






15. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






16. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital






17. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.






18. Spanish surrealist painter






19. 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.






20. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing






21. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






22. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






23. Long-Short-Short






24. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.






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






26. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






27. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.






28. 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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29. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?






30. Eight-foot line






31. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr






32. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






33. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






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






35. 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.






36. Fast






37. 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






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






39. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






40. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting






41. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?






42. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window






43. One-foot line






44. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.






45. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






46. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He






47. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






48. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






49. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time






50. Free-standing statues of nude male youths