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CLEP Humanities All In One

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






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






3. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks






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






5. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






6. Goddess of Marriage






7. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






8. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






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






10. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






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






12. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






13. Decorative drinking cup or goblet






14. 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






15. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






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






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






18. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.






19. 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.






20. Fast






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






22. Three-foot line






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






24. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.






25. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself






26. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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27. 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






28. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






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

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30. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.






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






32. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?






33. Death of a Salesman






34. God of Wisdom






35. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.






36. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work






37. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






38. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






39. Long-Short-Short






40. British abstract sculptor






41. Composer - conductor and pianist






42. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts






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






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






45. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.






46. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






47. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






48. 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






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






50. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)