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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide






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






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






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






5. Fast






6. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






7. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






8. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






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






10. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.






11. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme






12. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






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






14. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?






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






16. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






17. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






18. God of the sea






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






20. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti






21. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






22. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)






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






24. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales






25. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






26. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






27. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






28. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






29. A dance






30. God of Wine






31. Architect who liked a statue at every corner






32. Mannerism painter






33. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






34. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






35. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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36. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






37. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson






38. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






39. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing






40. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






41. Rebirth






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






43. Short-Short






44. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)






45. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






46. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






47. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r






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






49. Opaque watercolor






50. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl