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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. French 20th century architect
Al Jolson
Le Corbusier
Eisenstein
andante
2. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Apostrophe
Othello
Chopin
bust
3. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Edmund Spenser
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Hexameter
Free Verse
4. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
Leo Tolstoy
multi-media
Othello
New Orleans
5. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Baroque Period
D.W. Griffith
Socrates
Henrik Ibsen
6. Leucippus and Democritus
minuetto
Henry Dixon Cowell
Penny Marshall
Atomists
7. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Claude Monet
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Christopher Wren
8. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
Byzantine Style
Masaccio
King Lear
Eros/Cupid
9. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Eugene O'Neil
Chopin
Paleolithic
Federico Fellini
10. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Girl Before a Mirror
bel canto
Pablo Picasso
hagia sophia
Lillian Gish
11. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Impressionism
Gilbert and Sullivan
scrim
Merry Wives of Windsor
12. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Apostrophe
King Lear
Joseph Conrad
Libretto
13. Focuses on the direct relationship between the individual and the universe and/or God. Well-known existentialists include Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre - with S
Seurat
Irony
Existentialism
Federico Fellini
14. Four-foot line
gothic age architecture
Brunelleschi
obelisk
Tetrameter
15. The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music.
Arnold Schoenberg
flat
gouche
Cervantes
16. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Lionel Hampton
Remington
Mies van der Rohe
17. Repititions of geometric lines
Jane Austen
Marc Chagall
American Indian Rugs
D.W. Griffith
18. Architect who liked a statue at every corner
James Boswell
Andrea Palladio
Raphael
Dionysus/Bacchus
19. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
King Lear
Joan Miro
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
20. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma
Eisenstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Sheridan
Demeter/Ceres
21. A dance
Pearl Buck
minuetto
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joan Miro
22. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
IM Pei
Socrates
Mannerism
Modern Period
23. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Hermes/Mercury
Personification
Herman Melville
24. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Ares/Mars
Jean Fragonard
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lillian Gish
25. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
The Muses
Persian Rugs
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Daniel Defoe
26. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
D.W. Griffith
Scott Joplin
Phoebus/Apollo
Jonathan Swift
27. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
Imagery
Libretto
Thales
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
28. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Salvador Dali
Serge Diaghilev
Victor Hugo
Joan Miro
29. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Heraclitus
Mary Shelley
Bronte Sisters
Jonathan Swift
30. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Pentameter
Corinthian
Pavane and the Polonaise
31. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Usonian
Victor Hugo
Noh Theatre
Le Corbusier
32. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
fresco
Vincent van Gogh
William Shakespeare
Phoebus/Apollo
33. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Victor Hugo
Anapestic Pattern
34. Five-foot line
Lindisfarne Gospel
Mannerism
E.E. Cummings
Pentameter
35. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Minimalist Music
mosaics
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Reliquary
36. God of the underworld - and wealth
Pearl Buck
Demeter/Ceres
Hamlet
Hades/Pluto
37. God of Wine and Theatre
James Joyce
Dionysus/Bacchus
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
38. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
obelisk
henry moore
Post and Lintel
39. Implied comparison between two normally unrelated things - indicating a likeness between them. Words can also be used to replace other words. Example: His room is a dump.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Christopher Wren
aside
Metaphor
40. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Rembrandt
Brussels tapestries
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chopin
41. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Renoir
Shudras
Serialism
42. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
Flying buttresses
Frank Gehry 1929
Twelve Tone System
James Joyce
43. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Daniel Defoe
Roman Basilica
Obelisk
Hera/Juno
44. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Christopher Wren
Serge Diaghilev
Donatello
45. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Da Vinci
Salvador Dali
neo-classic period
Remington
46. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Alice Walker
Leo Tolstoy
Henrik Ibsen
Versailles
47. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Aubrey Beardsley
Macbeth
Delacroix
Shudras
48. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Foot
Jean Fragonard
Alliteration
Moral Philosophers
49. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Arthur Miller
Josiah Wedgewood
Lillian Gish
Mark Twain
50. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
hagia sophia
minuetto
Merry Wives of Windsor