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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Trompe l'oeil
Aubrey Beardsley
Francois Rabelais
cellini
2. Gross exaggeration for effect - not to be taken literately. Example: My feet are 'KILLING' me.
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller
Hyperbole
Martha Graham
3. 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.
Libretto
William Blake
Buddhists
Metaphor
4. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Picasso
Federico Fellini
Victor Hugo
5. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Bronte Sisters
American Indian Rugs
Reliquary
6. 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
Stravinsky
Corinthian
Verdi and Puccini
Merry Wives of Windsor
7. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Chalice
A short syllable
Bronte Sisters
Georgia O'Keeffe
8. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Impressionistic Art came before
Trochaic pattern
Thomas Edison
Beethoven & Wagner
9. Mannerism painter
El Greco
Bernini
aside
Penny Marshall
10. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Libretto
Libretto
Issac Asimov
11. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
henry moore
korai
Niccolo Machiavelli
Joseph Conrad
12. Mannerism painter
Beethoven & Wagner
El Greco
Minimalist Music
Neo-classic period
13. A famous cathedral In France
Herman Melville
The Iliad
Chartres Cathedral
Socrates
14. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Herman Melville
Marc Chagall
Hermes/Mercury
15. Leucippus and Democritus
renaissance
Atomists
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Demeter/Ceres
16. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Federico Fellini
Renoir
chalice
Andrew Wyeth
17. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Aside
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
gothic age architecture
Degas
18. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Hagia Sophia
Romanesque Style
bust
Serge Diaghilev
19. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Joan Miro
Corinthian
Pearl Buck
El Greco
20. Two-foot line
Dactylic
ballet
Dimeter
Noh Theatre
21. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Impressionistic Art came before
Claude Debussy
Bolero
Reliquary
22. Painted 'The Bathers'
Gilbert and Sullivan
Arnold Schoenberg
Jean Fragonard
Picasso
23. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Joan Miro
Islam
obelisk
James Boswell
24. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Claude Debussy
Seurat
Pavane and the Polonaise
sitar
25. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Simone De Beauvoir
D.W. Griffith
William Shakespeare
Twelve Tone System
26. 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
Ares/Mars
Eisenstein
flat
Buddhists
27. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Dactylic
Aaron Copeland
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Tragic figure
28. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Bayeux tapestry
Manichaeism
Christopher Wren
Rhymed Verse
29. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lillian Gish
Book of Kells
Jonathan Swift
30. 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
Doric
Merchant of Venice
Lorraine Hansberry
Gothic age architecture
31. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Merchant of Venice
Pearl Buck
Apostrophe
Brussels tapestries
32. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Dante Aligheri
Alfred Hitchcock
flying buttress
Eugene Delacroix
33. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
Thomas Gainsborough
Mary Shelley
Dante Aligheri
flying buttress
34. Pre-Socrates
Thales
Brahmans
Dada school
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
35. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Joan Miro
Socrates
Beethoven & Wagner
Edgar Allen Poe
36. British abstract sculptor
Hera/Juno
tragic figure
barbara hepworth
A long syllable
37. The text of the opera
Mathew Brady
William Shakespeare
High Renaissance
Libretto
38. Famous French impressionist composer
Hyperbole
Claude Debussy
presto
Cimabue
39. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Monet
Picasso
George Sand
Post Impressionism
40. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Tchaikovsky
chalice
John Roebling
41. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Francois Rabelais
Romanesque Style
Pentameter
Pavane and the Polonaise
42. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Onomatopoeia
Picasso
Salvador Dali
Alfred Hitchcock
43. 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.
Pavane and the Polonaise
Persian Rugs
Al Jolson
Josiah Wedgewood
44. The Starry Night
Salvador Dali
Tragic Playwrights
Vincent van Gogh
Andrea Palladio
45. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Atomism
Jules Verne
Trochaic pattern
46. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h
Mannerism
Epicureans
minuetto
Scott Joplin
47. Science fiction writer
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
barbara hepworth
Transcendentalism
Issac Asimov
48. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Ares/Mars
pieta
Athena/Minerva
Trompe l'oeil
49. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Mary Shelley
constantin brancusi
50. God of the Underworld and Death
Tragic figure
Hades/Pluto
Mies van der Rohe
Joan Miro