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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






2. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






3. Long-Short-Short






4. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






5. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






6. 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.






7. Five-foot line






8. 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






9. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo






10. Eight-foot line






11. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism






12. 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.






13. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






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






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






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






17. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






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






19. A musical composition for voices and orchestra






20. 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






21. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






22. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy






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






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






25. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






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






27. 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






28. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






29. Long-Long






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






31. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






32. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)






33. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






34. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






35. Science fiction writer






36. Court dances






37. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua






38. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






39. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines






40. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






41. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






42. 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






43. Rebirth






44. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






45. 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






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






47. God of the sea






48. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






49. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






50. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist







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