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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Classical Period
Victor Hugo
Arthur Miller
Herman Melville
2. 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
Pythagoras
Mies van der Rohe
Christopher Wren
3. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Dionysus/Bacchus
Shudras
Tragic Playwrights
French female pose
4. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
presto
Josiah Wedgewood
Othello
King Lear
5. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Apostrophe
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Tchaikovsky
Mary McCarthy
Gilbert Stuart
7. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Seurat
Neoplatonism
sitar
8. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Federico Fellini
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vermeer
Issac Asimov
9. Played the xylophone and marimba
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Lionel Hampton
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mathew Brady
10. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
Book of Kells
Herman Melville
Book of Durrow
11. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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12. God of Wisdom
Athena/Minerva
Metaphor
Gilbert and Sullivan
bel canto
13. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Mary McCarthy
Edvard Greig
Beethoven & Wagner
Mannerism
14. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Twelve Tone System
Irony
Penny Marshall
louise nevelson
15. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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16. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Antonio Gaudi
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Mannerism
El Greco
17. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Langston Hughes
Hermes/Mercury
Free Verse
Gothic age architecture
18. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Penny Marshall
Stoicism
Pieta
Merchant of Venice
19. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Monet
Aphrodite/Venus
Merchant of Venice
constantin brancusi
20. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Pythagoras
Romanticism Movement
alexander calder
Niccolo Machiavelli
21. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau
Simile
Mies van der Rohe
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Popular Transcendentalists
22. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Hermes/Mercury
Arthur Miller
23. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Degas
Scott Joplin
Macbeth
Ray Bradbury
24. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Mathew Brady
Langston Hughes
Hellenistic Period
25. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
tempura
The Pigeon House
sitar
Satire
26. The Color Purple
Alliteration
Mies van der Rohe
Alice Walker
Ray Bradbury
27. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Henrik Ibsen
michelangelo
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
28. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Baroque art
Allegory
Andre Previn
Flying buttress
29. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Macbeth
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Jane Austen
Imagery
30. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Apollo
Hermes/Mercury
Rembrandt
Victor Hugo
31. Goddess of Fortune
Tyche/Fortuna
multi-media
James Joyce
Chopin
32. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Salvador Dali
William Shakespeare
Byzantine Style
33. 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.
Metaphor
Niccolo Machiavelli
Renoir
New Orleans
34. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Vaishyas
Merry Wives of Windsor
Donatello
Christopher Wren
35. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Pythagoras
Victor Hugo
neo-classic period
Moral Philosophers
36. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Hagia Sophia
Claude Debussy
Rembrandt
37. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
renaissance
Edmund Spenser
Eros/Cupid
Brahmans
38. A famous cathedral In France
Chartres Cathedral
Salvador Dali
Epicureans
Renaissance Art
39. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Renoir
Arthur Miller
Romanesque Style
Noh Theatre
40. Plato and Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
Brunelleschi
cellini
John Locke
41. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Francois Rabelais
Ares/Mars
James Joyce
42. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
Onomatopoeia
Mies van der Rohe
Georgia O'Keeffe
43. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Claude Monet
Jean Fragonard
Baroque Period
Dionysus/Bacchus
44. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Marc Chagall
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Aphrodite/Venus
Masaccio
45. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Atomists
Impressionistic Art came before
Thomas Edison
46. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ernest Hemingway
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Mary Shelley
47. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Andre Previn
Frank Lloyd Wright
William Shakespeare
Leo Tolstoy
48. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Andre Previn
Rhymed Verse
Anapestic Pattern
french female pose
49. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Henrik Ibsen
Heraclitus
Art Deco Movement
French female pose
50. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kronos/Saturn
Brahmans
A long syllable