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CLEP Humanities All In One

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






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






3. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






4. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere






5. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






6. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






7. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h






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






9. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






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






11. Slow






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






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






14. Goddess of Love and Beauty






15. Spanish surrealist painter






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






17. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






18. 20th Century American composer






19. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






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






21. Six-foot line






22. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education






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






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






25. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






26. 1900 to the Present






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






28. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second






29. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






30. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






31. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






32. School of nonsense and anti-art






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






34. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






35. 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






36. Short-Short






37. 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






38. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors






39. Fast






40. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.






41. The Color Purple






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






43. Four-foot line






44. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors






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






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






47. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






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






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






50. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson







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