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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Minimalist Music
John Locke
Usonian
2. One unit of meter in poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
sitar
Lionel Hampton
Foot
3. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Merchant of Venice
Post Impressionism
Apostrophe
4. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Flying buttresses
Lorraine Hansberry
Mark Twain
Remington
5. Spanish surrealist painter
Delacroix
Bernini
Joan Miro
Transcendentalism
6. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism
Picasso
Irony
Vaishyas
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
7. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
mosaics
Pyrrhic Pattern
sitar
Metaphor
8. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Henrik Ibsen
reliquary
Tempura
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
9. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
oratorio
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
henry moore
aside
10. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Ballet
Poseidon/Neptune
Handel
Renoir
11. Repititions of geometric lines
oratorio
American Indian Rugs
Georgia O'Keefe
michelangelo
12. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Botticelli
cellini
Free Verse
Dionysus/Bacchus
13. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Martin Heidegger
Simone De Beauvoir
Edmund Spenser
Beethoven & Wagner
14. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Francois Rabelais
Bolero
15. School of nonsense and anti-art
New Orleans
dada school
Jean Fragonard
Othello
16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Onomatopoeia
Artemis/Diana
Neolithic
17. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Monet
Alfred Hitchcock
french female pose
18. God of Love
Socrates
Eros/Cupid
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary McCarthy
19. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
American Indian Rugs
Hector Berlioz
Rene Descartes
Edgar Allen Poe
20. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Fauvism
American Indian Rugs
Victor Hugo
Vincent van Gogh
21. 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.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Book of Durrow
Victor Hugo
Humanism
22. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Manichaeism
Brunelleschi
Jules Verne
korai
23. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Hades/Pluto
Tchaikovsky
Scrim
Apostrophe
24. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Onomatopoeia
Kronos/Saturn
Hamlet
flat
25. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Lionel Hampton
scrim
fresco
26. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
tragic figure
neo-classic period
Merchant of Venice
Federico Fellini
27. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Leo Tolstoy
Richard Sheridan
bust
28. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Neoclassicism
presto
Noh Theatre
cellini
29. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Versailles
French female pose
michelangelo
Edmund Spenser
30. God of Wine
Dionysus/Bacchus
Issac Asimov
Flat
Cervantes
31. God of War
tempura
Merry Wives of Windsor
Ares/Mars
The Pigeon House
32. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Tetrameter
Christopher Marlowe
Vincent van Gogh
33. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Maia/Fauna
Mary Shelley
allegro
Edmund Spenser
34. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
tempura
Dactylic
reliquary
Neoplatonism
35. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Francesco Petrarch
Aside
Plato
Scott Joplin
36. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Da Vinci
Rembrandt
Satire
Giotto
37. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Jonathan Swift
Mary Wollstonecraft
Alexander Dumas
38. Thucydides and Herodotus
Arnold Schoenberg
Chopin
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Historians
39. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Gilbert and Sullivan
Shudras
Christopher Wren
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
40. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Hagia Sophia
Rembrandt
Eisenstein
flat
41. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Salvador Dali
Noh Theatre
King Lear
Simone De Beauvoir
42. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
tempura
Bayeux tapestry
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Confucianism
43. Painted 'The Bathers'
allegro
Pieta
flying buttress
Jean Fragonard
44. Two-foot line
Symbolism
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Langston Hughes
Dimeter
45. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Lorraine Hansberry
Whole Tone Scale
Andre Previn
Popular Transcendentalists
46. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Alliteration
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Andrea Palladio
47. 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.
Andrea Palladio
Aaron Copeland
Neolithic
The Pigeon House
48. Goddess of Wisdom
Le Corbusier
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
reliquary
49. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Jules Verne
Chopin
allegro
Pablo Picasso
50. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
The Iliad
Merry Wives of Windsor
Zeno
Sitar