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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts






2. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






3. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises






4. God of Marriage






5. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror






6. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






7. 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






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






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






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






11. One unit of meter in poetry






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






13. Goddess of Hunting






14. A capella singers






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






16. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'






17. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






18. Thucydides and Herodotus






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






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






21. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-






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






23. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.






24. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?






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






26. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons






27. 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






28. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.






29. Laborer caste in Hinduism






30. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






31. 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.






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






33. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






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






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






36. Beautiful Italian singing






37. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.






38. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






39. Science fiction writer






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






41. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






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






43. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel






44. French 20th century architect






45. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






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






47. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






48. Spanish surrealist painter






49. Three dimensional work of art - statue






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