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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
chalice
Impressionism
gothic age architecture
Alliteration
2. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Pythagoras
Simone De Beauvoir
Post Impressionism
3. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Gilbert Stuart
Seurat
Gilbert and Sullivan
Joseph Conrad
4. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Jules Verne
Remington
Vermeer
madrigal
5. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
William Faulkner
The Muses
Giotto
Mies van der Rohe
6. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Alexander Dumas
Handel
bel canto
Picasso
7. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Arthur Miller
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Tchaikovsky
Mark Twain
8. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Serge Diaghilev
Stephen Foster
Renoir
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
9. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Frank Gehry 1929
Degas
fresco
10. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Aaron Copeland
Trimeter
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Popular Transcendentalists
11. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Pentatonic Scale
William Shakespeare
Arnold Schoenberg
neo-classic period
12. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Hamlet
Bayeux tapestry
Chalice
T.S. Eliot
13. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Samuel Beckett
Leo Tolstoy
Jean Fragonard
Merry Wives of Windsor
14. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
louise nevelson
Herman Melville
Tragic figure
Rembrandt
15. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Mary Shelley
Demeter/Ceres
fresco
16. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Peter Paul Rubens
Zeus/Jupiter
Mies van der Rohe
Da Vinci
17. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
reliquary
Hermes/Mercury
Leo Tolstoy
Trompe l'oeil
18. Slow
Jane Austen
Thomas Hobbes
Lao Tzu
andante
19. 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
Seurat
Andrea Palladio
Modern Period
Buddhists
20. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Penny Marshall
Thomas Hobbes
Othello
Pearl Buck
21. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Bronte Sisters
Roman Basilica
Christopher Wren
Leo Tolstoy
22. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Demeter/Ceres
Bayeux tapestry
Mary Shelley
James Boswell
23. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Jules Verne
Edvard Greig
Tetrameter
Beethoven & Wagner
24. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Plato
Manhattan Project
Henrik Ibsen
Michelangelo
25. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Augustine Age
Renoir
Salvador Dali
Hector Berlioz
26. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Dionysus/Bacchus
gothic age architecture
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Lorraine Hansberry
27. Spanish surrealist painter
Trochaic pattern
Joan Miro
Richard Sheridan
Friedrich Nietzsche
28. 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
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Iambic pattern
George Sand
Heptameter
29. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Cervantes
Greek Doric
Jane Austen
Othello
30. 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.
The Panthenon
Johannes Brahms
The Pigeon House
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
31. God of Wildlife
Thales
Kouroi
Thomas Hobbes
Artemis/Diana
32. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
neo-classic period
tragic figure
Renaissance
33. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Thales
Poseidon/Neptune
Mathew Brady
34. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
James Boswell
Aaron Copeland
hagia sophia
James Boswell
35. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
korai
Scrim
minuetto
Tetrameter
36. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Manichaeism
Hera/Juno
Georgia O'Keefe
37. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
flying buttress
scrim
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain
38. 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.
Le Corbusier
neo-classic period
Al Jolson
Art Deco Movement
39. French 20th century architect
King Lear
Pythagoras
Brussels tapestries
Le Corbusier
40. Opaque watercolor
presto
gouche
Byzantine Style
Manichaeism
41. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
George Sand
Existentialism
french female pose
Verdi and Puccini
42. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Brahmans
Claude Monet
Gilbert Stuart
43. The Starry Night
bel canto
Bronte Sisters
John Roebling
Vincent van Gogh
44. Slow
Peter Paul Rubens
andante
Bayeux tapestry
A long syllable
45. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Georg W. F. Hegel
Leo Tolstoy
Lao Tzu
Rembrandt
46. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Aubrey Beardsley
James Boswell
Dada school
American Indian Rugs
47. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Botticelli
James Joyce
henry moore
mannerism
48. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Greek Ionic
Aside
Pearl Buck
Socrates
49. Spanish surrealist painter
Eros/Cupid
Bronte Sisters
madrigal
Joan Miro
50. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Onomatopoeia
Confucianism
Soliloquy
Andrea Palladio
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