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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. 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
Seurat
Honore de Balzac
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
2. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Twelve Tone System
Henrik Ibsen
allegro
Josiah Wedgewood
3. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
sculpture
Ares/Mars
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Edison
4. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
obelisk
Artemis/Diana
Botticelli
Mozart and Richard Strauss
5. God of War
Socrates
Atomists
Claude Debussy
Ares/Mars
6. 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
Reliquary
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hector Berlioz
pop art
7. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
bust
Doric
Henri Matisse
Socrates
8. 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.
Persian Rugs
Rococo
Federico Fellini
Joan Miro
9. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Dimeter
Minimalist Music
Pythagoras
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
10. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Arnold Schoenberg
Baroque Period
obelisk
James Boswell
11. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
King Lear
Denouement
Dactylic
flying buttress
12. God of Marriage
Monet
Hera/Juno
hagia sophia
Jean Fragonard
13. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Apollo
Arthur Miller
Jane Austen
Hagia Sophia
14. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
William Faulkner
Rococo
Epicureans
Hector Berlioz
15. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Beethoven & Wagner
Mathew Brady
Vermeer
andante
16. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Edvard Greig
Niccolo Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
korai
17. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Whole Tone Scale
Noh Theatre
Degas
Edgar Allen Poe
18. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
John Dryden
Book of Kells
Anapestic Pattern
Tragic figure
19. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
Mark Twain
Aaron Copeland
The Iliad
andante
20. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Stephen Foster
Moral Philosophers
Metaphor
Cerros
21. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
Mies van der Rohe
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Eugene O'Neil
Mary Wollstonecraft
22. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
gothic age architecture
Stravinsky
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Giotto
23. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Neoclassicism
Donatello
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Beethoven & Wagner
24. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Macbeth
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
High Renaissance Painters
Arthur Miller
25. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Johannes Brahms
Tetrameter
cellini
Didactic-ism
26. Science fiction writer
Augustine Age
Issac Asimov
Andrew Wyeth
Kronos/Saturn
27. 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.
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Imagery
Salvador Dali
Plato
28. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Donatello
Merry Wives of Windsor
Alfred Hitchcock
Francois Rabelais
29. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Stephen Crane
Tyche/Fortuna
scrim
30. Court dances
Edmund Spenser
Imagery
Pavane and the Polonaise
Lorraine Hansberry
31. French 20th century architect
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
reliquary
Le Corbusier
tempura
32. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Apostrophe
Atomists
Herman Melville
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
33. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Andre Previn
reliquary
High Renaissance Painters
Niccolo Machiavelli
34. French impressionist painter
Monet
Jonathan Swift
Greek Ionic
barbara hepworth
35. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Trompe l'oeil
Thomas Edison
Zeus/Jupiter
Peter Paul Rubens
36. 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.
Celtic Art
F. Scott Fitzgerald
bust
Bayeux tapestry
37. Three dimensional work of art - statue
bust
Issac Asimov
sculpture
Hera/Juno
38. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Vermeer
multi-media
Joseph Conrad
Macbeth
39. 19th century French syle of painting that tried to capture the painter's immediate impressions - usually of the outdoors. In music - a term associated witht the music of Debussy and Ravel
Henri Matisse
Hellenistic Period
Impressionism
Manhattan Project
40. 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
Lillian Gish
Edvard Greig
Islam
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
41. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
louise nevelson
Henrik Ibsen
Mies van der Rohe
High Renaissance Painters
42. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Francois Rabelais
Claude Monet
Atomists
43. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Cimabue
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Handel
Thales
44. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
allegro
Lillian Gish
Jean Fragonard
Mary McCarthy
45. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Charles Dickens
Mary McCarthy
Delacroix
Demeter/Ceres
46. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
obelisk
Dante Aligheri
Hans-Georg Gadamer
47. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Thales
Stephen Crane
John Locke
Apollo
48. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Reliquary
Pavane and the Polonaise
49. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Jean Fragonard
High Renaissance Painters
Charles Dickens
Buddhists
50. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
William Faulkner
Guggenheim Museum
Aphrodite/Venus
Beethoven & Wagner