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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






2. 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






3. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






4. 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






5. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






6. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd






7. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during






8. Both wrote music based on Don Juan






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






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






11. Impressionistic Music






12. 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






13. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






14. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






15. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






17. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism






18. Repititions of geometric lines






19. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






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






21. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






22. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.






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






24. 20th Century American composer






25. Fast






26. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






27. 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






28. 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.






29. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings






30. God of War






31. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women






32. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






33. Goddess of Hunting






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






35. 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






36. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






37. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.






38. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman






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






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






41. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.






42. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






43. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.






44. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France






45. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism






46. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads






47. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






48. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






49. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.






50. Fast