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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Monet
Personification
Niccolo Machiavelli
Frank Lloyd Wright
2. God of Marriage
Hera/Juno
Rembrandt
Persian Rugs
Alexander Dumas
3. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Ares/Mars
Eugene O'Neil
Libretto
french female pose
4. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Pablo Picasso
Arthur Miller
Cerros
Mary Shelley
5. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Trochaic pattern
constantin brancusi
Chartres Cathedral
Socrates
6. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
The Pigeon House
Cervantes
Monet
Herman Melville
7. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and
Cubism
Noh Theatre
Frank Lloyd Wright
Epic
8. Long-Short-Short
Stephen Crane
Bronte Sisters
Dactylic
Giotto
9. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
American Indian Rugs
Samuel Beckett
Corinthian
10. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Lorraine Hansberry
Barcelona Pavilion
Gilbert Stuart
Medieval Architecture
11. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
T.S. Eliot
Vincent van Gogh
Abstraction
chalice
12. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Bronte Sisters
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Francois Rabelais
Giotto
13. Goddess of Animals
Versailles
Delacroix
Pilgrim's Progress
Maia/Fauna
14. Science fiction writer
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Issac Asimov
Arthur Miller
Aaron Copeland
15. Goddess of Fortune
Simone De Beauvoir
Tyche/Fortuna
Minimalist Music
Cynics
16. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
The Panthenon
Aaron Copeland
multi-media
King Lear
17. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Noh Theatre
Arnold Schoenberg
bel canto
Herman Melville
18. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
obelisk
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Jonathan Swift
Rembrandt
19. Painted 'The Bathers'
Noh Theatre
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Edmund Spenser
Jean Fragonard
20. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
William Shakespeare
Aubrey Beardsley
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Alexander Dumas
21. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Neoplatonism
Edmund Spenser
Manhattan Project
Hamlet
22. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
George Sand
Reliquary
Francois Rabelais
Raphael
23. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
E.E. Cummings
dada school
Joseph Conrad
bel canto
24. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Andrea Palladio
Al Jolson
Thomas Edison
Michelangelo
25. 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
Aristotle
Alfred Hitchcock
Salvador Dali
allegro
26. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
fresco
Antonio Gaudi
Chopin
Mannerism
27. God of Love
Eros/Cupid
Honore de Balzac
constantin brancusi
tragic figure
28. 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.
Jules Verne
Niccolo Machiavelli
William Faulkner
Edmund Spenser
29. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
reliquary
High Renaissance
Christopher Wren
Friedrich Nietzsche
30. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary McCarthy
Mary Shelley
madrigal
John Roebling
31. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Manhattan Project
Pearl Buck
Fresco
Vaishyas
32. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Versailles
Botticelli
Jean Fragonard
Christopher Wren
33. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Charles Dickens
gothic age architecture
Delacroix
Plato
34. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
louise nevelson
presto
flying buttress
35. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Merry Wives of Windsor
Remington
flying buttress
Lorraine Hansberry
36. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
bel canto
Pilgrim's Progress
F. Scott Fitzgerald
aside
37. School of nonsense and anti-art
Kshatriyas
Dada school
Jules Verne
Monet
38. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Stephen Crane
neo-classic period
Plato
Rembrandt
39. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Issac Asimov
Whole Tone Scale
Renoir
Federico Fellini
40. 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
Merry Wives of Windsor
James Joyce
Federico Fellini
Herman Melville
41. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Kronos/Saturn
Macbeth
Church of San Vitale
tragic figure
42. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Leo Tolstoy
Tragic figure
Niccolo Machiavelli
Surrealism
43. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
D.W. Griffith
Modern Period
Vincent van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright
44. Six-foot line
Barcelona Pavilion
Hexameter
Moai
barbara hepworth
45. Leucippus and Democritus
Pearl Buck
Cervantes
Georgia O'Keefe
Atomists
46. Played the xylophone and marimba
Pavane and the Polonaise
Kouroi
chalice
Lionel Hampton
47. Opaque watercolor
Jane Austen
Rococo
Gouche
Ernest Hemingway
48. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Bronte Sisters
Romanesque Style
New Orleans
Persian Rugs
49. French 20th century architect
Arthur Miller
Michelangelo
Le Corbusier
obelisk
50. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
andante
Jackson Pollock
Henry Dixon Cowell
Lorraine Hansberry