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Clep Humamities

Question	Answer
Ballad	Narrative poem consisting of 4 lines stanzas with alternating rhymes.
Folk Ballads	Were handed down from generation to generation and were orginally sung.
Keats example of ballad poem	La Balle Dame sans Merci
Damatic monologue	Form of daramatic poetry in which only a single character speaks, gradually revealing her/his own dramatic sistuation
T. S. Eliot's example of damatic monologue	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Elegy	Names fro, the Greek work for "lament," elegies are lyric poems on the subject of death.
epic	Long narrative poem whose subject is of major importance.
Homer's epics	Iliad and Odyssey
Hymm	Lyric poem in prise of God or by extension anything of great value.
Limerick	A humorous poem of five lines- 1st , 2nd, and 5th rhyme, while the shorter 3rd and 4th lines have a different rhyme
ode	Lyric poem of irregular form, often used to express deep personal feelings.
Keats's explam of an ode	Ode to a Nightingale
Romance	Long narrative poem bases on legend
Sonnet	Lyric poem of 14 lines
Meter	units of a line of poetry are syllabic groups called feet; the number of feet gives the meter its name.
tetrameter	one of the most common meters in English consists of four feet
pentameter	Another very common English meter, so named because it consists of five feet.
Hexameter	six feet
Spenser's example of a hexameter	The Faerie Queene
Monometer	one foot
Dimeter	two feet
Trimeter	three feet
Mixed Meter	alternate lines of one meter with lines of at least one other meter.
Coleridge's example of a mixed meter poem	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rhythm	The placement of a stressed syllable in a foot determines it's rhythm and gives the foot its name
iambic	the most common foot in the English language, unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one as in the word a-bove
anapestic	if a foot consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one
trochaic	a stressed syllable followed by a single unstressed one: hu-mor
dactylic	If a foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
pyrrhic foot	two unstressed syllables will come together in a single foot
spondee	two stressed syllables can come together in a single foot
soliloquy	extended speech by a character alone on the stage, in which he oftens reveals truths not admitted in the presence of other characters
Fable	grief story,often featuring animals as characters, intended to illustrate a moral lesson
Folk tale	anonymous story tied to a single cultural groug and handed down orally before being recorded in writing.
Joel Chandler Harris example of a folk tale	tales from Uncle Remus
Tale	short story slightly unrealistic in character and events and related to the longer prosed romance
Nathaniel Howthorne's example of a tale	Twice-told tales
Herman Melville's example of a tale	Piazza Tales
Novel	fictional story of consideralbe length written in prose
Novella	short novel,a distinction measured by the scope ofhte work as well as by the number of pages
picaresque	novel-length story consisting of many individual episodes
Acropolis	is a rock outcropping where the Greeks would place a building.
Bildungroman	A german term meaning "formation novel" used to describe novels about an adolescent's initiation into adulthood
Parthenon	is a great example of Greek architecture.
Proscenium	type of stage
Romans used Proscenium	the space in front of the stage
The Chorus	foretells the future, explains the past, philosophizes and is an additional character.
Oracle	who was a “prophet” who could foretell the future.
Morality play:	the hero was the normal man. Church was a dominant theme.
roman a clef	A novel in which actual person are described under ficitious names
Zeus	was ruler of the Gods, the most powerful, but he is tricky and a cheater.
Apollo	is one of two twins, and the God of Shepherds and Muses
Dionysus	is the God of wine and fertility.
Poseidon	is a bearded God with a trident. He is God of the sea.
Prometheus	stole fire and gave it to man. As his punishment, was chained to a rock.
Polytheistic	is what it is called when you worship multiple gods.
Pantheism	is when people worship gods of nature.
Mercury	is the God of Speed. He had wings on his helmet and heels.
Gorgons	is the name for Medusa or any monster that has snakes for hair. Medusa’s stare can turn people to stone
amphora	is a vase with two handles and a narrow neck.
centaur	is a creature whose top half was a man and the bottom half a horse.
minotaur	is a creature whose head and shoulders are of a bull with the body of a man with cloven hooves
Stoicism	They believed that emotions came from illogical reasoning.
Epicureanis	pleasure is a virtue, like honesty. But they also believed in moderation in all things.
Andrew Wyeth	painted “Christina’s World”
DADA school	was a school of nonsense and anti art.
Miro	was a surrealist painter.
Salvador Dali	was a surrealist.
Remington	was an artist that painted the scenes of the American West.
Aubrey Beardsley	made drawings in black and white.
Gilbert Stuart	Went to study portraits. Made many of George Washington.
Picasso	was an abstract artist. He was a cubist. He liked to show multiple facets of a subject.
Guernica	representing a town after a terrorist bomb killed 23 people by Picasso
Seurat	was an artist who used pointillism, which is using small dots of color to make a big picture.
Renoir	was famous for his French female nude paintings.
Neo-classic Period	artists studied the techniques of the past so they could steal it.
French female pose	is when the subject is lying down away from the artist and look back over the shoulder.
Delacroix	was a precise, French painter.
Monet	was a French painter who was famous for his work with light, color and water.
Degas	was a French painter and sculptor.
Vermeer	painted people doing everyday things. He was Dutch and used a lot of light.
Fresco	is a painting on a moist layer of plaster.
Tempera	is finely ground pigments with a stabilizing base.
Gouche	is opaque water color.
Giotto	painted frescoes and was an architect.
Annunciation	is the name of the event of the Angel appearing to Mary to tell her of her divine role as Jesus’ mother.
Pieta	the name of any sculpture where Mary is holding Jesus.
Donatello	is a sculptor who worked in bronze.
Renaissance	means resurrection of a dead culture or rebirth.
Da Vinci	painted “The Virgin of the Rocks,” “The Last Supper,” and “Mona Lisa.”
Michelangelo	painted the Sistine chapel ceiling.
Mannerism	is a style of art and architecture. They rejected perfection in their works.
El Greco	was a Spanish mannerism painter.
Rembrandt	used light in his paintings and painted “The Blinding of Samson.”
Peter Paul Rubens	was a Flemish painter. He had parts done by assistants.
Frank Lloyd Wright	was an architect.He believed in “form with feeling.”
Le Corbusier	was a French 20th century architect.
Mies van der Rohe	was a German architect.
Flying buttress	is a support on the outside of the building.
Christopher Wren	is the architect that redid St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Andrea Palladio	was an architect that liked a statue at every corner of the building.
Henry Moore	is a sculptor who uses rounded sculpture and not a lot of detail.
Constantin Brancusi	sculpted The Kiss-His art appears almost like African art.
Barbara Hepworth	abstract sculptor.
Louis Nevelson	Sculptor who specialized in wood. He created the piece “Black Chord”.
Alexander Calder	was a sculpture who invented the mobile.
obelisk	is a tall four-sided shaft of stone.
Hagia Sophia	is an Eastern Church, where parts are made by interlocking domes
Pop art	is commercial art raised up to an art form.
Andy Warhol	framed a picture of the Campbell’s Soup Can.
Mosaics	originated with the Byzantine. Tesserae are what the small square pieces are called.
Josiah Wedgewood	An English artist who was famous for his Neo-classic blue containers with white figures.
Reliquary	is a wooded box or chest used for storing holy things. Painted symbols on the outside.
Chalice	is a cup with a large base.
Sculpture	is a three-dimensional art form.
Lillian Gish	was the first female director.
Penny Marshall	is a female modern director whose work includes “Big,” and “Jumping Jack Flash.”
Thomas Edison	created two motion pictures called “The Sneeze” and “The Kiss.”
D.W. Griffith	created the movie “Birth of a Nation.”
Alfred Hitchcock	was a famous movie producer who became known for thrillers.
Federico Fellini	was an Italian film director. He created “La Dolce Vita” and “Fellini Satyricon.”
In 1927, Al Jolson stared in The Jazz Singer	which had synchronized sound recordings.
Eisenstein	used new techniques to switch from scene to scene. He created a montage, which could be rapid scenes around a theme.
Ballet	is a form of dance that was originally based on court dance.
Serge Diaghilev	opened the Ballet Russe, a school for dance.
Martha Graham	was a famous ballet dancer. She is remembered as the “mother of dance"
Madrigal	are a’capella singers
Bel canto	beautiful singing (Italian)
Libretto	is the text of the opera
Oratorio	is a musical piece for vocals and instruments
Sitar	is a guitar-like instrument from India.
Allegro	fast
Andante	slow
Presto	Fast
Minuetto	a dance
Stravinsky	composed “The Rite of Spring.”
Henry Dixon Cowell	was a 20th Century American composer.
Beethoven and Wagner	were inspired by Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy.”
Verdi and Puccini	wrote operas.
Tchaikovsky	composed the “1812 Overture” and “The Nutcracker.”
Chopin	was a pianist, sometimes called the “poet of the piano.”
Stephen Foster	wrote “Camptown Races” and over 150 other songs.
Johannes Brahms	was a Romantic composer.
Claude Debussy	was an impressionistic composer.
Gilbert and Sullivan	wrote and composed musical theatre including Pirates of Penzance, and Mikado.
Aaron Copeland	composed romantic music, including “Appalachian Spring.”
Scott Joplin	composed ragtime music and “The Entertainer.”
Jazz	originated in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Count Basie and Louis Armstrong	both played the trumpet.
John Coltrane	played the sax.
Lionel Hampton	played the xylophone and marimba.
Andre Previn	is a composer, conductor and pianist.
Handel	composed the oratorio the “Messiah.”
The Pavane and the Polonaise	are both court dances.
Mozart and Richard Strauss	both wrote music based on Don Juan.
Hector Berlioz	composed “Symphonie Fantastique.”
The story of Abraham and his son Isaac	is one of sacrifice and obedience.
According to the Bible, man’s first disobedience	was eating the fruit in Eden.
Bhagavad-Gita	is a Hindu religion.
Atman	is name for the mortal soul of every creature, including plants and animals.
Nirvana, part of Buddhist philosophy	is the ultimate glory of the soul.
Oglala Sioux	is wise man.
Gandhi	promoted non-violence.
The Gothic age	was the age of faith.
Saint Thomas Aquinas	wrote “Summa Theologica.”
Edvart Greig	was Norwegian composed a musical titled “Peer Gynt.”
Arnold Schoenberg	invented a twelve-tone system of composing music, known as atonal music.
Torah	is Jewish scripture.
Koran	is Islam scripture.
Book of Revelation	is the last book in the Bible.
The phrase “And the walls came tumbling down”	is from Gideon and Jericho.
First Position	The balls of the feet are turned out completely. The heels touch each other and the feet face outward, trying to form a straight line.
second Position	The balls of both feet are turned out completely, with the heels separated by the length of one foot. Similar to first position, but the feet are spread apart
third position	One foot is in front of the other with the of the front foot touching the middle of the back foot.
Fourth Position	The feet are placed the same as third position, but one step apart
Fifth Position	With both feet touching, the toes of each foot reaches the heel of the other

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