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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Ballet
Alexander Dumas
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Edison
2. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
The Pigeon House
Beethoven & Wagner
Jean Fragonard
Kouroi
3. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Pythagoras
Maia/Fauna
french female pose
obelisk
4. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Samuel Beckett
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Simile
Cubism
5. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Daniel Defoe
Antonio Gaudi
presto
6. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Scott Joplin
Denouement
Beethoven & Wagner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
presto
bust
tempura
James Joyce
8. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Neo-classic period
tragic figure
Onomatopoeia
Minimalist Music
9. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Bronte Sisters
Atomism
Tyche/Fortuna
10. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Bernini
Claude Monet
Merry Wives of Windsor
11. Short-Short
Scott Joplin
Pyrrhic Pattern
Michelangelo
Phoebus/Apollo
12. Court dances
Aubrey Beardsley
Satire
Pavane and the Polonaise
Claude Monet
13. Plato and Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
Arthur Miller
Ray Bradbury
Parmenides
14. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
sitar
D.W. Griffith
Arthur Miller
Edgar Allen Poe
15. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Hector Berlioz
Arthur Miller
Ballet
T.S. Eliot
16. 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.
Chopin
Bayeux tapestry
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Lionel Hampton
17. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Andrew Wyeth
Simile
Josiah Wedgewood
mosaics
18. 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.
flying buttress
Allegory
Aristotle
Shudras
19. 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
Tragic Playwrights
Paleolithic
Seurat
Penny Marshall
20. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
Hamlet
Gouche
ballet
louise nevelson
21. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
bel canto
Celtic Art
Alfred Hitchcock
22. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Vermeer
neo-classic period
Gilbert Stuart
Charles Dickens
23. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Plato
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
scrim
Free Verse
24. 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
Stephen Foster
Bronte Sisters
oratorio
Leonardo da Vinci
25. Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
alexander calder
Aubrey Beardsley
michelangelo
reliquary
26. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Hermes/Mercury
The Parthenon
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
27. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Hermes/Mercury
Andrea Palladio
Macbeth
Beethoven & Wagner
28. 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.
Confucianism
Athena/Minerva
Hector Berlioz
D.W. Griffith
29. 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
Raphael
michelangelo
Cubism
30. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Serge Diaghilev
Ernest Hemingway
michelangelo
Herman Melville
31. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Epic
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
James Joyce
cellini
32. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
James Joyce
Pavane and the Polonaise
Persian Rugs
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
33. 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
Mark Twain
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Victor Hugo
Jonathan Swift
34. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Mark Twain
The Panthenon
Aaron Copeland
Socrates
35. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Doric
Noh Theatre
Peter Paul Rubens
Daniel Defoe
36. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
D.W. Griffith
Simone De Beauvoir
Versailles
tragic figure
37. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Neoclassicism
Rhymed Verse
William Wordsworth
Chopin
38. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Transcendentalism
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Dactylic
louise nevelson
39. Composer - conductor and pianist
Socrates
Verdi and Puccini
Gilbert Stuart
Andre Previn
40. 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).
Rembrandt
Dada school
Heraclitus
Bronte Sisters
41. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Renoir
Cubism
Eisenstein
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
42. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
madrigal
michelangelo
Benjamin Franklin
Corinthian
43. 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.
D.W. Griffith
Niccolo Machiavelli
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Poseidon/Neptune
44. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
William Faulkner
Claude Debussy
Merry Wives of Windsor
mosaics
45. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
American Indian Rugs
pieta
Thomas Edison
Barcelona Pavilion
46. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Fresco
pieta
bel canto
Immanuel Kant
47. Five-foot line
Hagia Sophia
Pentameter
Thomas Edison
Trompe l'oeil
48. Science fiction writer
Versailles
Jean Fragonard
Issac Asimov
Anapestic Pattern
49. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Rene Descartes
Gilbert Stuart
Moai
allegro
50. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Humanism
allegro
Demeter/Ceres
Jules Verne