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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






2. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






4. Famous French impressionist composer






5. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






6. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






7. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which






8. 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.






9. Architect who like a statue at every corner






10. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV






11. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






12. Repititions of geometric lines






13. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.






14. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






15. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy






16. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






17. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






18. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.






19. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer






20. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






21. 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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22. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






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






24. Played the xylophone and marimba






25. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






26. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.






27. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.






28. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.






29. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'






30. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






31. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






32. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






33. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






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






35. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft






36. 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






37. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado






38. Free-standing statues of nude male youths






39. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






40. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).






41. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






42. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry






43. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






44. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






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






46. Paul Gauguin






47. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.






48. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






49. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'






50. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.







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