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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Remington
Edmund Spenser
mosaics
Eisenstein
2. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Aphrodite/Venus
Giotto
Atomism
Tragic Playwrights
3. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Personification
Book of Kells
Baroque art
Pearl Buck
4. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
obelisk
Samuel Beckett
Zeno
Henry Dixon Cowell
5. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Samuel Beckett
Claude Debussy
Shudras
Aaron Copeland
6. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Eros/Cupid
presto
Gilbert and Sullivan
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
7. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
Degas
Persian Rugs
Chopin
8. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Othello
Chopin
Demeter/Ceres
presto
9. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Cubism
Transcendentalism
10. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Johannes Brahms
Francois Rabelais
Pearl Buck
Tetrameter
11. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Al Jolson
Gilbert and Sullivan
Bronte Sisters
Satire
12. Plato and Aristotle
Pavane and the Polonaise
Usonian
Moral Philosophers
Rhymed Verse
13. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Mary Shelley
Monet
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
14. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Mark Twain
T.S. Eliot
Rembrandt
Edmund Spenser
15. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Hamlet
Thales
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Salvador Dali
16. Spanish surrealist painter
A short syllable
Joan Miro
Othello
barbara hepworth
17. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Al Jolson
Manhattan Project
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pilgrim's Progress
18. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Apostrophe
Alfred Hitchcock
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Samuel Beckett
19. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
T.S. Eliot
Monet
scrim
Edgar Allen Poe
20. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Aside
Spondaic Pattern
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Dante Aligheri
21. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
George Sand
Eugene O'Neil
Stephen Crane
Noh Theatre
22. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
hagia sophia
Post and Lintel
Shudras
23. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Martin Heidegger
Fresco
Hamlet
24. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Thomas Gainsborough
sitar
Brussels tapestries
Mozart and Richard Strauss
25. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Federico Fellini
Victor Hugo
Josiah Wedgewood
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
26. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Ghiberti
Apostrophe
Leo Tolstoy
T.S. Eliot
27. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Chloris/Flora
Jonathan Swift
Foot
Renoir
28. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Peter Paul Rubens
Symbolism
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
29. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Socrates
pieta
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Vincent van Gogh
30. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hades/Pluto
Tchaikovsky
31. 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.
Persian Rugs
Confucianism
Eugene O'Neil
michelangelo
32. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry
Arthur Miller
Meter
Christopher Wren
Cervantes
33. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Hamlet
reliquary
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Joseph Conrad
34. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
obelisk
Post Impressionism
pieta
Mary Shelley
35. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Chartres Cathedral
Rembrandt
mosaics
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
36. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Dimeter
Scrim
reliquary
Reliquary
37. 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.
E.E. Cummings
Plato
chalice
Merry Wives of Windsor
38. Clothed upright statues of women - often of goddesses (generally the Archaic period)
Victor Hugo
Serge Diaghilev
Flat
korai
39. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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40. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
High Renaissance
Delacroix
chalice
louise nevelson
41. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Apollo
Bronte Sisters
Zeno
Giotto
42. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Bernini
Zeno
allegro
Mary Shelley
43. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
T.S. Eliot
Peter Paul Rubens
Christopher Wren
presto
44. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious - more realistic - emphasis on nature - three dimensional with perspective - people are active and show great emotion
Renaissance Art
Herman Melville
Personification
Mannerism
45. What type of column has scrolls - and is taller?
Post Impressionism
Tyche/Fortuna
Marc Chagall
Greek Ionic
46. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
El Greco
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Othello
Gilbert Stuart
47. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Henry Dixon Cowell
Charles Dickens
Stephen Foster
Vincent van Gogh
48. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
High Renaissance
Eugene Delacroix
tragic figure
Satire
49. 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.
Herman Melville
Mies van der Rohe
Persian Rugs
oratorio
50. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Satire
alexander calder
Degas
Samuel Beckett