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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. One-foot line






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






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






4. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.






5. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!






6. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






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






8. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






9. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






10. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






11. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






12. 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.






13. Short-Short-Long






14. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






15. Pre-Socrates






16. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks






17. God of love and beauty






18. 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.






19. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






20. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






21. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






22. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






23. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






24. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to






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






26. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.






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






28. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






29. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.






30. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






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






32. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.






33. School of nonsense and anti-art






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






35. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure






36. Court dances






37. 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






38. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






39. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner






40. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)






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






42. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






43. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






44. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado






45. Seven-foot line






46. French 20th century architect






47. Beuatiful with ornate borders






48. A capella singers






49. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






50. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.







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