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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






2. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.






3. Seven-foot line






4. One unit of meter in poetry






5. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






6. Goddess of Animals






7. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine






8. Opaque watercolor






9. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






11. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






12. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience






13. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






14. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






15. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






16. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings






17. 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.






18. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






19. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






20. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)






21. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






22. 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






23. God of Wine






24. Thucydides and Herodotus






25. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man






26. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)






27. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.






28. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme






29. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






30. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






31. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






32. 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.






33. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles






34. Goddess of Agriculture






35. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






36. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






37. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






38. Short-Short






39. A capella singers






40. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations






41. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.






42. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






43. Mannerism painter






44. Famous for black and white erotic paintings






45. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






46. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier






47. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.






48. Beautiful Italian singing






49. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






50. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi