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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Simile
Flat
Guggenheim Museum
2. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Lorraine Hansberry
Henry Dixon Cowell
Giotto
Salvador Dali
3. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Jules Verne
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
sitar
Issac Asimov
4. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Apollo
Picasso
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
5. 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
John Roebling
Ballet
Seurat
Jane Austen
6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Joseph Conrad
Leo Tolstoy
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
7. 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).
multi-media
Heraclitus
Merry Wives of Windsor
Neolithic
8. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Lionel Hampton
Mary McCarthy
Noh Theatre
Merchant of Venice
9. 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
Merchant of Venice
Renoir
flat
michelangelo
10. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
alexander calder
Claude Debussy
Alexander Dumas
Joan Miro
11. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
Pavane and the Polonaise
Art Deco Movement
Paleolithic
Handel
12. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
bel canto
Henry Dixon Cowell
ballet
Mies van der Rohe
13. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Giotto
Stephen Crane
Frank Lloyd Wright
14. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Le Corbusier
Persian Rugs
tragic figure
Benjamin Franklin
15. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
soliloquy
Reliquary
Romanticism Movement
Botticelli
16. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Greek Corinthian
Herman Melville
Giotto
Chloris/Flora
17. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
pieta
Lionel Hampton
aside
bel canto
18. God of the underworld - and wealth
Samuel Beckett
Marc Chagall
Neoclassicism
Hades/Pluto
19. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Popular Transcendentalists
Mary Shelley
Chopin
French Romantic painter
20. Repititions of geometric lines
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
American Indian Rugs
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mary Shelley
21. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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22. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Edgar Allen Poe
Simone De Beauvoir
Thomas Edison
23. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Chopin
Donatello
Joseph Conrad
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
24. Paul Gauguin
Libretto
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Atomism
Merry Wives of Windsor
25. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Mary Shelley
The Muses
Rembrandt
aside
26. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
James Boswell
Salvador Dali
Honore de Balzac
Whole Tone Scale
27. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
michelangelo
Eugene Delacroix
Christopher Wren
Reliquary
28. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Apostrophe
Beethoven & Wagner
constantin brancusi
Alfred Hitchcock
29. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
John Roebling
Lorraine Hansberry
Stephen Crane
Martha Graham
30. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Remington
Twelve Tone System
High Renaissance Painters
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
31. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Josiah Wedgewood
Antonio Gaudi
Cervantes
multi-media
32. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
Josiah Wedgewood
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
33. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Scott Joplin
Tragic Playwrights
Joan Miro
Othello
34. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Bronte Sisters
dada school
Stephen Crane
T.S. Eliot
35. Thucydides and Herodotus
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Libretto
Historians
T.S. Eliot
36. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
neo-classic period
Eugene O'Neil
Jonathan Swift
37. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Othello
Henrik Ibsen
Christopher Wren
Alliteration
38. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
Meter
William Faulkner
cellini
Lionel Hampton
39. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
Aaron Copeland
Stephen Foster
Mary Wollstonecraft
Plato
40. 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
Renaissance Art
Gothic age architecture
Stephen Foster
Mark Twain
41. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
multi-media
constantin brancusi
Thomas Hobbes
Christopher Wren
42. Mannerism painter
Kshatriyas
El Greco
Dionysus/Bacchus
Popular Transcendentalists
43. 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.
hagia sophia
Lao Tzu
Stephen Crane
Josiah Wedgewood
44. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Masaccio
Trimeter
Mary Shelley
Augustine Age
45. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Chopin
Othello
Degas
46. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Denouement
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Alfred Hitchcock
Greek Ionic
47. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Lionel Hampton
Simone De Beauvoir
Charles Dickens
Renoir
48. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Bronte Sisters
obelisk
Serge Diaghilev
Popular Transcendentalists
49. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aristotle
Aaron Copeland
T.S. Eliot
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
50. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Greek Doric
Eisenstein
Dionysus/Bacchus