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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Long-Short-Short






2. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






3. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






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






5. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






6. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






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






8. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






9. 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.






10. Mannerism painter






11. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.






12. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer






13. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






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






15. 20th Century American composer






16. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






17. Rebirth






18. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






19. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






20. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.






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






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






23. Eight-foot line






24. Free-standing statues of nude male youths






25. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.






26. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






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






28. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






29. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi






30. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.






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






32. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






33. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






34. 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.






35. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






36. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






37. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






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






39. The Starry Night






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






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






42. 1900 to the Present






43. 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






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






45. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






46. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






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






48. Wrote Rivals






49. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






50. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance