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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd






2. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.






3. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






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






5. School of nonsense and anti-art






6. Famous French impressionist composer






7. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting






8. Fast






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






10. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






11. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience






12. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.






13. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.






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






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






16. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person






17. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






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






19. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist






20. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land






21. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






22. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






23. 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






24. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






25. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.






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






27. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






28. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw






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






30. Goddess of Marriage






31. Five-foot line






32. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century






33. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






34. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






35. Science fiction writer






36. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.






37. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors






38. Composer - conductor and pianist






39. A capella singers






40. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.






41. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






42. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






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






44. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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45. Slow






46. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later






47. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.






48. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






49. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






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