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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Renaissance Art
Christopher Wren
2. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Henry Dixon Cowell
Greek Doric
Dante Aligheri
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
T.S. Eliot
Aphrodite/Venus
Charles Dickens
Octometer
4. Repititions of geometric lines
Noh Theatre
Francois Rabelais
Jules Verne
American Indian Rugs
5. 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.
Plato
tragic figure
Onomatopoeia
Socrates
6. Court dances
Handel
fresco
Pavane and the Polonaise
Rene Descartes
7. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Socrates
minuetto
Beethoven & Wagner
Epicureans
8. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Penny Marshall
Richard Sheridan
Mary McCarthy
Usonian
9. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Merchant of Venice
Artemis/Diana
The Panthenon
Pearl Buck
10. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Simile
Rembrandt
11. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rhymed Verse
Lillian Gish
Thales
12. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Pieta
sculpture
oratorio
Ares/Mars
13. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Alexander Dumas
Aristotle
Abstraction
14. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Joan Miro
Christopher Marlowe
Jules Verne
Stephen Foster
15. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
George Sand
Dante Aligheri
Josiah Wedgewood
King Lear
16. Austrian composer; leader of the 2nd Viennese school: Invented serialism same as 12 tone system; wrote Pierrot Lunaire Landmark piece of music moonstruck Pierrot.
madrigal
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Doric
American Indian Rugs
17. God of Wine
Whole Tone Scale
Stephen Crane
Dionysus/Bacchus
Handel
18. One-foot line
Mathew Brady
Merchant of Venice
Monometer
Manichaeism
19. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Giotto
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
20. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain
Lindisfarne Gospel
William Shakespeare
Claude Debussy
Heptameter
21. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
William Blake
Francois Rabelais
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Persian Rugs
Picasso
neo-classic period
Hades/Pluto
23. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Sand
24. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
Epicureans
Mark Twain
Foot
25. Short-Short-Long
Ares/Mars
mosaics
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Anapestic Pattern
26. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
Personification
Peter Paul Rubens
Hector Berlioz
27. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Atomism
Tchaikovsky
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
28. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Josiah Wedgewood
Lionel Hampton
Richard Sheridan
sculpture
29. God of the sea
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Poseidon/Neptune
Edmund Spenser
30. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Seurat
Eugene O'Neil
Mathew Brady
soliloquy
31. Opaque watercolor
constantin brancusi
Gouche
Daniel Defoe
Lorraine Hansberry
32. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Atomism
Edmund Spenser
E.E. Cummings
A long syllable
33. School of nonsense and anti-art
Hermes/Mercury
Dada school
Andrew Wyeth
oratorio
34. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
D.W. Griffith
Free Verse
Socrates
Aaron Copeland
35. Painted 'The Bathers'
Federico Fellini
Hector Berlioz
Jean Fragonard
Islam
36. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Augustine Age
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
multi-media
37. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Renoir
Mary Wollstonecraft
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Honore de Balzac
38. God of the Sea
Romanticism Movement
Irony
Poseidon/Neptune
New Orleans
39. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Parmenides
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Johannes Brahms
Le Corbusier
40. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Brunelleschi
Pythagoras
Andre Previn
Niccolo Machiavelli
41. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Didactic-ism
henry moore
D.W. Griffith
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
42. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
gothic age architecture
Baroque art
obelisk
Brussels tapestries
43. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Verdi and Puccini
Leo Tolstoy
Hermes/Mercury
44. School of nonsense and anti-art
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Socrates
Merry Wives of Windsor
dada school
45. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Athena/Minerva
Alfred Hitchcock
Rembrandt
Parmenides
46. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Greek Ionic
Mozart and Richard Strauss
E.E. Cummings
Penny Marshall
47. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Renoir
pop art
D.W. Griffith
Stravinsky
48. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Victor Hugo
Charles Dickens
Penny Marshall
Christopher Marlowe
49. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
french female pose
Eisenstein
Jonathan Swift
Paleolithic
50. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
michelangelo
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Francois Rabelais
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