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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Composer - conductor and pianist






2. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s






3. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?






4. Slow






5. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub






6. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier






7. Fast






8. Spanish surrealist painter






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






10. 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






11. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.






12. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






13. Pre-Socrates






14. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






15. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






16. Architect who like a statue at every corner






17. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






18. A dance






19. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






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






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






22. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion






23. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






24. Laborer caste in Hinduism






25. Science fiction writer






26. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






27. Four-foot line






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






29. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






30. 20th Century American composer






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






32. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






33. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






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






35. Goddess of Agriculture






36. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'






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






38. 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






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






40. Spanish surrealist painter






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






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






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






44. Long-Short






45. Long-Long






46. 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.






47. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.






48. Painted 'The Bathers'






49. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






50. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn







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