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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Neoclassicism
Monet
pieta
John Dryden
2. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Mathew Brady
Existentialism
bust
Free Verse
3. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Honore de Balzac
T.S. Eliot
El Greco
Mozart and Richard Strauss
4. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Lillian Gish
henry moore
Mies van der Rohe
Henry Dixon Cowell
5. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
Greek Ionic
Heptameter
Delacroix
6. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Antonio Gaudi
Joseph Conrad
Christopher Wren
Gouche
7. French 20th century architect
Andrew Wyeth
Le Corbusier
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
IM Pei
8. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Seurat
Niccolo Machiavelli
Andrew Wyeth
cellini
9. School of nonsense and anti-art
Alexander Dumas
dada school
Georg W. F. Hegel
Samuel Beckett
10. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
William Wordsworth
Pearl Buck
Jules Verne
11. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
Reliquary
Remington
multi-media
12. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Ionic
Celtic Art
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Richard Sheridan
13. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Aphrodite/Venus
Soliloquy
Vermeer
14. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Langston Hughes
IM Pei
Ray Bradbury
Eisenstein
15. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Soliloquy
Bayeux tapestry
D.W. Griffith
Al Jolson
16. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Herman Melville
Hexameter
Pearl Buck
neo-classic period
17. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Mary Shelley
Issac Asimov
T.S. Eliot
Pyrrhic Pattern
18. Opaque watercolor
Mary McCarthy
Honore de Balzac
Vincent van Gogh
gouche
19. One-foot line
Reliquary
Reliquary
Cervantes
Monometer
20. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Jules Verne
Edmund Spenser
barbara hepworth
mannerism
21. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
flat
Apollo
barbara hepworth
Da Vinci
22. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
michelangelo
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
reliquary
Christopher Marlowe
23. Impressionistic Music
Arnold Schoenberg
Doric
Impressionistic Art came before
Eugene O'Neil
24. Court dances
aside
Federico Fellini
Heraclitus
Pavane and the Polonaise
25. Composer - conductor and pianist
Henry Dixon Cowell
Edmund Spenser
Baroque Period
Andre Previn
26. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Iambic pattern
Richard Sheridan
Niccolo Machiavelli
Bayeux tapestry
27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
henry moore
Vaishyas
Simone De Beauvoir
Mary McCarthy
28. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Ghiberti
Aaron Copeland
Spondaic Pattern
Historians
29. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Scrim
Reliquary
Usonian
Leo Tolstoy
30. Composer - conductor and pianist
bel canto
Andre Previn
Merry Wives of Windsor
Federico Fellini
31. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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32. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Francesco Petrarch
A short syllable
Alexander Dumas
Martin Heidegger
33. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Taoism
Didactic-ism
Persian Rugs
Islam
34. God of love and beauty
Plato
Greek Ionic
Peter Paul Rubens
Aphrodite/Venus
35. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Thomas Hobbes
Herman Melville
Christopher Wren
Parmenides
36. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Lionel Hampton
Surrealism
Rembrandt
Plato
37. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Fresco
Aubrey Beardsley
fresco
Pablo Picasso
38. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Soliloquy
Moai
Henry Dixon Cowell
Charles Dickens
39. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
gothic age architecture
Socrates
Baroque Period
40. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
obelisk
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Herman Melville
tragic figure
41. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Arthur Miller
Langston Hughes
Augustine Age
Mies van der Rohe
42. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
Simone Martini
Zeno
Edmund Spenser
Giotto
43. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Andre Previn
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Heraclitus
Remington
44. Played the xylophone and marimba
Alice Walker
Lionel Hampton
Jane Austen
Lorraine Hansberry
45. A famous cathedral In France
John Roebling
obelisk
Chartres Cathedral
Moai
46. 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.
Monet
Samuel Beckett
constantin brancusi
John Locke
47. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chopin
Charles Dickens
48. Eight-foot line
Lorraine Hansberry
Beethoven & Wagner
Octometer
Jules Verne
49. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
cellini
Thales
The Parthenon
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
50. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Celtic Art
Chartres Cathedral
Thomas Edison
Alliteration
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