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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure






2. This building was built in Athens around 450BC - Famous for its columns






3. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.






4. Science fiction writer






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






6. 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






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






8. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






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






10. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind






11. DNA of the song






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






13. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






14. 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






15. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






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






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






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






19. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting






20. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'






21. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)






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






23. 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






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






25. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point






26. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.






27. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






28. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






29. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






30. A capella singers






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






32. 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






33. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters






34. Seven-foot line






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






36. Wrote operas






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






38. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






39. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim






40. 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.






41. Fast






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






43. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'






44. Famous French impressionist composer






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






46. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.






47. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






48. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






49. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic






50. Author of The Red Badge of Courage