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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Simone De Beauvoir
dada school
Hamlet
Joseph Conrad
2. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Hades/Pluto
gothic age architecture
Alfred Hitchcock
E.E. Cummings
3. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
IM Pei
constantin brancusi
Aaron Copeland
Book of Kells
4. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Impressionistic Art came before
Beethoven & Wagner
henry moore
ballet
5. 20th Century American composer
Delacroix
Stephen Crane
Ares/Mars
Henry Dixon Cowell
6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
cellini
Spondaic Pattern
Cervantes
Artemis/Diana
7. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
gouche
Marc Chagall
Art Deco Movement
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
8. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Cervantes
Simone De Beauvoir
Plato
Stephen Crane
9. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Versailles
Martha Graham
Federico Fellini
Jane Austen
10. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Alfred Hitchcock
Simone De Beauvoir
Thomas Edison
French female pose
11. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Neo-classic period
Usonian
Ballet
12. 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
Hamlet
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Corinthian
Merry Wives of Windsor
13. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Metaphor
Edmund Spenser
flying buttress
Mathew Brady
14. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Serge Diaghilev
Salvador Dali
Stephen Foster
15. Goddess of Animals
Thales
Henry Dixon Cowell
Maia/Fauna
Apollo
16. 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Frank Lloyd Wright
Leo Tolstoy
Bayeux tapestry
17. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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18. 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
Alliteration
Chopin
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Alfred Hitchcock
19. God of sun - light - truth - healing
Heraclitus
Guggenheim Museum
Apollo
Joseph Conrad
20. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Da Vinci
John Dryden
Alliteration
Degas
21. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Aaron Copeland
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mannerism
Bronte Sisters
22. The King of the Gods and the God of the sky
Mark Twain
El Greco
Thales
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
23. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Cynics
Whole Tone Scale
American Indian Rugs
chalice
24. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Seurat
Chopin
Henrik Ibsen
Brunelleschi
25. 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
Trochaic pattern
Eisenstein
Eisenstein
Merchant of Venice
26. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Dionysus/Bacchus
King Lear
Epic
Simone Martini
27. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
constantin brancusi
Andrew Wyeth
Monet
Renoir
28. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Stoicism
El Greco
Edmund Spenser
tempura
29. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Jane Austen
Stephen Crane
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Church of San Vitale
30. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Claude Debussy
Michelangelo
Pavane and the Polonaise
Aaron Copeland
31. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Thales
Vermeer
Mary Shelley
Paleolithic
32. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Macbeth
Stoicism
Noh Theatre
Taoism
33. Mannerism painter
mannerism
Mannerism
Georgia O'Keeffe
El Greco
34. Fast
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
presto
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Neoclassicism
35. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
Henry Dixon Cowell
Iambic pattern
36. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Aubrey Beardsley
Doric
andante
Augustine Age
37. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Federico Fellini
Christopher Wren
Athena/Minerva
King Lear
38. 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.
King Lear
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Beckett
Al Jolson
39. Figure of speech that give human traits to animals - objects - or ideas. Example: the storm lashed the naked - helpless shore.
Seurat
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Personification
multi-media
40. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Mary McCarthy
Greek Ionic
Pearl Buck
Pythagoras
41. 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
Merchant of Venice
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Hera/Juno
Mary Shelley
42. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
William Faulkner
Ballet
Cervantes
Eugene Delacroix
43. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Lorraine Hansberry
Chopin
Peter Paul Rubens
Victor Hugo
44. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Taoism
Pearl Buck
Henri Matisse
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
45. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Le Corbusier
Beethoven & Wagner
Kouroi
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
46. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Manhattan Project
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
William Faulkner
Donatello
47. The final unraveling of the plot in any story.
Denouement
Flying buttress
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Bayeux tapestry
48. Four-foot line
Penny Marshall
Joseph Conrad
Tetrameter
minuetto
49. Repititions of geometric lines
American Indian Rugs
Cynics
Phoebus/Apollo
scrim
50. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
flying buttress
obelisk
Vermeer
Arnold Schoenberg