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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Laborer caste in Hinduism






2. 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.






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






4. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






5. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






6. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






7. Opaque watercolor






8. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






9. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






10. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






11. School of nonsense and anti-art






12. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






13. Beautiful Italian singing






14. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






15. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.






16. Long-Short-Short






17. Science fiction writer






18. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






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






20. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.






21. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state






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






23. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






24. 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).






25. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






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






27. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






28. God of Love






29. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.






30. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide






31. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.






32. 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.






33. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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






35. One unit of meter in poetry






36. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






37. School of nonsense and anti-art






38. The use of an object to represent another object or idea.






39. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore






40. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.






41. Fast






42. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.






43. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky






44. God of the sea






45. Russian composer






46. 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






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






48. Pre-Socrates






49. God of Wine and Theatre






50. Knowm for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters - The Old Man and the Sea - a Farewell to Arms - the Sun Also Rises







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