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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
Jonathan Swift
Lorraine Hansberry
obelisk
2. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Renoir
louise nevelson
Eugene Delacroix
Verdi and Puccini
3. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
James Boswell
Henrik Ibsen
Didactic-ism
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
4. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Stoicism
Chopin
Seurat
Confucianism
5. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Tragic figure
Versailles
Joseph Conrad
T.S. Eliot
6. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Beethoven & Wagner
Romanesque Style
Hermes/Mercury
obelisk
7. A dance
Mark Twain
Andrew Wyeth
minuetto
Victor Hugo
8. Rebirth
James Boswell
Usonian
renaissance
Peter Paul Rubens
9. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Vermeer
Andrew Wyeth
Ghiberti
Serialism
10. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Pavane and the Polonaise
Victor Hugo
Jean Jacques Rousseau
chalice
11. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Merchant of Venice
Edvard Greig
Salvador Dali
Cubism
12. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Pythagoras
Noh Theatre
Fresco
Monometer
13. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Greek Doric
Plato
Arthur Miller
Merry Wives of Windsor
14. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Shudras
Ray Bradbury
Hyperbole
Rococo
15. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
fresco
Celtic Art
Mary Shelley
Martha Graham
16. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Donatello
pieta
James Joyce
Meter
17. 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).
Heraclitus
Al Jolson
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Brunelleschi
18. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Christopher Marlowe
Verdi and Puccini
Hamlet
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
19. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
IM Pei
Confucianism
Andre Previn
20. Science fiction writer
Peter Paul Rubens
Fresco
Henri Matisse
Issac Asimov
21. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Lao Tzu
Denouement
mannerism
chalice
22. School of nonsense and anti-art
Arthur Miller
dada school
Serge Diaghilev
Honore de Balzac
23. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Thomas Gainsborough
Honore de Balzac
24. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
William Blake
Victor Hugo
Frank Gehry 1929
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
25. God of the Sea
Lionel Hampton
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Poseidon/Neptune
Honore de Balzac
26. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Edmund Spenser
Guggenheim Museum
Donatello
Libretto
27. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Hera/Juno
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Baroque Period
Aristotle
28. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Herman Melville
Mary McCarthy
Sitar
Twelve Tone System
29. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
IM Pei
Pavane and the Polonaise
Pilgrim's Progress
30. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Mannerism
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
oratorio
Honore de Balzac
31. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
henry moore
Chalice
Al Jolson
A long syllable
32. Goddess of Animals
tempura
Le Corbusier
Persian Rugs
Maia/Fauna
33. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Gilbert Stuart
Mathew Brady
Scott Joplin
cellini
34. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Doric
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Mary Shelley
Classical Period
35. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
henry moore
Hermes/Mercury
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Hades/Pluto
36. Wrote Rivals
Samuel Beckett
Richard Sheridan
Jane Austen
Socrates
37. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Artemis/Diana
King Lear
T.S. Eliot
Mies van der Rohe
38. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Stephen Foster
Jules Verne
Jean Fragonard
John Dryden
39. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Thomas Edison
Ballet
Francois Rabelais
40. 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
Seurat
Irony
Libretto
Degas
41. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
ballet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vermeer
aside
42. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
tragic figure
Geoffrey Chaucer
bel canto
Seurat
43. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Pythagoras
Aaron Copeland
Byzantine Style
44. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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45. Opaque watercolor
Pieta
Athena/Minerva
Jane Austen
gouche
46. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Hellenistic Period
tragic figure
Issac Asimov
Bernini
47. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
multi-media
Baroque Period
henry moore
Chalice
48. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Usonian
Renoir
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Transcendentalism
49. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Jackson Pollock
Beethoven & Wagner
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Jane Austen
50. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Andrew Wyeth
Greek Ionic
Sitar
french female pose