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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. 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.






2. One unit of meter in poetry






3. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






4. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






5. Spanish surrealist painter






6. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism






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






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






9. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






10. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






11. Repititions of geometric lines






12. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme






13. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He






14. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.






15. School of nonsense and anti-art






16. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






17. Eight-foot line






18. God of Love






19. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven






20. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'






21. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.






22. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting






23. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'






24. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.






25. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






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






27. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore






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






29. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






30. God of Wine






31. God of War






32. 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.






33. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






34. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






35. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






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






37. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






38. Thucydides and Herodotus






39. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






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






41. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






42. God of Doors and beginnings and endings






43. Painted 'The Bathers'






44. Two-foot line






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






46. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2






47. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.






48. Goddess of Wisdom






49. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones






50. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy