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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Rembrandt
Othello
George Sand
2. One-foot line
Pilgrim's Progress
Monometer
Merry Wives of Windsor
Andre Previn
3. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Johannes Brahms
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Mary McCarthy
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
4. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Hamlet
Eisenstein
Leo Tolstoy
5. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
E.E. Cummings
Mannerism
Simile
mosaics
6. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Plato
Rembrandt
Renoir
Pearl Buck
7. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Reliquary
Mathew Brady
Lionel Hampton
Charles Dickens
8. Fast
Eugene Delacroix
allegro
Delacroix
Lionel Hampton
9. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Imagery
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Atomists
bel canto
10. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Baroque Period
Leo Tolstoy
Stravinsky
11. 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
Greek Doric
Christopher Marlowe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Stravinsky
Libretto
Transcendentalism
Ares/Mars
13. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
T.S. Eliot
Fauvism
Martha Graham
Mies van der Rohe
14. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
James Joyce
pieta
Onomatopoeia
Jane Austen
15. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Tempura
Plato
oratorio
bust
16. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Merry Wives of Windsor
Beethoven & Wagner
Christopher Marlowe
Merchant of Venice
17. Spanish surrealist painter
Fauvism
Eugene O'Neil
Classical Period
Salvador Dali
18. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
George Sand
Thomas Edison
multi-media
Versailles
19. 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
Eisenstein
Niccolo Machiavelli
Merchant of Venice
Surrealism
20. Short-Long
Iambic pattern
Seurat
Donatello
Penny Marshall
21. Eight-foot line
Octometer
Persian Rugs
Pearl Buck
Poseidon/Neptune
22. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Joseph Conrad
James Boswell
George Sand
tragic figure
23. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Macbeth
Hector Berlioz
Martha Graham
Francesco Petrarch
24. Foremost literary critic of the romantic period - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Edmund Spenser
Buddhists
Celtic Art
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
25. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Rene Descartes
Theme
Jean Fragonard
obelisk
26. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
French female pose
Georgia O'Keeffe
Apollo
27. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Edmund Spenser
Aaron Copeland
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
sitar
28. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Didactic-ism
Lillian Gish
Post Impressionism
29. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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30. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Simone De Beauvoir
Heptameter
Roman Basilica
31. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
hagia sophia
Ionic
Macbeth
The Panthenon
32. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Claude Monet
Tetrameter
Brussels tapestries
33. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Hamlet
oratorio
Neolithic
34. DNA of the song
Josiah Wedgewood
Doric
Pentatonic Scale
Persian Rugs
35. An example of Byzantine architecture - name this church.
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Hagia Sophia
IM Pei
Roman Basilica
36. 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.
Beethoven & Wagner
Serialism
Salvador Dali
obelisk
37. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
Hector Berlioz
Samuel Beckett
French Romantic painter
madrigal
38. 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
Charles Dickens
Aphrodite/Venus
Theme
Michelangelo
39. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Aristotle
Blank Verse
Meter
renaissance
40. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
E.E. Cummings
Al Jolson
Brussels tapestries
Soliloquy
41. The Starry Night
Eros/Cupid
Pavane and the Polonaise
Christopher Wren
Vincent van Gogh
42. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
mannerism
Dante Aligheri
Mary Wollstonecraft
chalice
43. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Post Impressionism
Hera/Juno
Maia/Fauna
constantin brancusi
44. 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.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
A short syllable
Mannerism
Alexander Dumas
45. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Frank Lloyd Wright
Stoicism
Renoir
46. French Post Impressionistic painter; Pointillism; Neo Impressionism or pointilism
tragic figure
tempura
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
cellini
47. Court dances
mannerism
Monet
Pavane and the Polonaise
multi-media
48. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
tempura
Mannerism
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Chopin
49. 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
sculpture
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Jonathan Swift
Beethoven & Wagner
50. Leucippus and Democritus
Atomists
Artemis/Diana
Eugene O'Neil
Claude Debussy 1862-1918