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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Buddhists
Tragic figure
alexander calder
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Pablo Picasso
Brunelleschi
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
3. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
William Shakespeare
French female pose
Neo-classic period
mannerism
4. 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.
Claude Debussy
Metaphor
Issac Asimov
Moral Philosophers
5. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Macbeth
Andrea Palladio
Pentameter
New Orleans
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
Joseph Conrad
Ray Bradbury
Charles Dickens
Hans-Georg Gadamer
7. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Arthur Miller
Barcelona Pavilion
cellini
Persian Rugs
8. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
Seurat
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Iambic pattern
aside
9. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Personification
T.S. Eliot
Hellenistic Period
10. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Penny Marshall
Neolithic
gouche
Socrates
11. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Alice Walker
Mark Twain
Issac Asimov
12. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Personification
soliloquy
The Pigeon House
Simone De Beauvoir
13. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Macbeth
Barcelona Pavilion
Andrew Wyeth
Lorraine Hansberry
14. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
obelisk
Islam
Jonathan Swift
Macbeth
15. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Romanesque Style
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
King Lear
presto
16. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Alexander Dumas
Niccolo Machiavelli
Atomists
Brahmans
17. French 20th century architect
Atomists
Le Corbusier
Eugene O'Neil
Islam
18. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
French Romantic painter
Stravinsky
Al Jolson
Martin Heidegger
19. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Frank Gehry 1929
Brunelleschi
Rococo
Simile
20. Russian composer - composed 6 symphonies - The Nutcracker - Swan Lake Suite - Concerti
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Historians
Zeno
21. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Christopher Wren
Serge Diaghilev
Alexander Dumas
Kshatriyas
22. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Athena/Minerva
Pavane and the Polonaise
Federico Fellini
Atomism
23. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
soliloquy
Mary Shelley
Issac Asimov
Simone De Beauvoir
24. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hagia Sophia
flying buttress
Charles Dickens
25. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Zeno
Serialism
chalice
Martha Graham
26. Goddess of Agriculture
Corinthian
Ionic
Demeter/Ceres
Gilbert and Sullivan
27. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Parmenides
Post Impressionism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Obelisk
28. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes
Lorraine Hansberry
Salvador Dali
The Iliad
Atomism
29. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Serialism
Federico Fellini
Merry Wives of Windsor
Samuel Beckett
30. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Tchaikovsky
obelisk
Soliloquy
Niccolo Machiavelli
31. Wrote operas
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Stravinsky
Frank Gehry 1929
Verdi and Puccini
32. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
barbara hepworth
Humanism
John Dryden
33. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Delacroix
chalice
Satire
Eisenstein
34. One-foot line
Christopher Wren
sitar
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Monometer
35. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
madrigal
scrim
Arthur Miller
36. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Islam
Hades/Pluto
Brussels tapestries
Lindisfarne Gospel
37. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Renoir
Christopher Wren
Mies van der Rohe
A long syllable
38. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Cynics
Rembrandt
Aubrey Beardsley
39. 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
Ray Bradbury
George Sand
King Lear
New Orleans
40. 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
Niccolo Machiavelli
Henry Dixon Cowell
Henri Matisse
Serge Diaghilev
41. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
James Boswell
Hector Berlioz
Bayeux tapestry
Joan Miro
42. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Othello
Martha Graham
Stravinsky
43. God of Wildlife
Epic
Versailles
Artemis/Diana
Plato
44. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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45. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Scott Joplin
Merry Wives of Windsor
Versailles
46. 1900 to the Present
Jean Fragonard
Charles Dickens
Modern Period
Moai
47. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Chopin
fresco
Arnold Schoenberg
Meter
48. DNA of the song
William Faulkner
Onomatopoeia
Pentatonic Scale
Vincent van Gogh
49. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Frank Gehry 1929
Hector Berlioz
Seurat
Christopher Marlowe
50. 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.
Thomas Edison
Bayeux tapestry
Humanism
Da Vinci
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