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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Long-Short-Short






2. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti






3. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






4. Laborer caste in Hinduism






5. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man






6. Leucippus and Democritus






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






8. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar






9. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...






10. The Starry Night






11. Science fiction writer






12. French impressionist painter






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.






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






15. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.






16. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.






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






18. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






19. The Color Purple






20. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






21. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






22. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






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






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.






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






26. A capella singers






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






28. Wrote Rivals






29. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






30. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






31. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






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






34. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






35. Goddess of Hunting






36. God of love and beauty






37. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers






38. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






39. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






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






41. Court dances






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






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






44. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






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.






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






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






48. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice






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






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