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Humanities part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| p | play softly |
| ff | foortissiom or very loud |
| cres | increase volume |
| decres | play softer |
| rit | slow down |
| Shostakovich | Russian composer |
| Giacomo Puccini | Madama Butterfly |
| Madama Butterfly | is an opera:in it he dramatized the tale of a young Japanese bride first wooed and then abandone by an American naval lieutenant |
| Giacomo Puccini | La Boheme |
| La Boheme | opera about a colony of poor artists |
| Giacomo Puccini | Tosca |
| Tosca | is an opera about a nineteeth-century singer in Rome |
| Verdi | Aide |
| Aida | opera about an Afrian princess in Egypt |
| The Last if the Mohicans | refers to upstate New York during the eighteenth century |
| The History of the Dividing Line | deals with defining the border between Virginia and NC during the late eighteenth century |
| On Plymouth Plantation | is a document written on colonial Massachusettes |
| Huckleberry Finn | involves Illinois and the shores of Lowa on the Mississippi River |
| My Antonia | deals with frontier life in the Midwest during the nineteenth century |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | the description it given of Iceland is so accurate that travelers were urged to use the book as a travel guide |
| The myserious Island | Stevenson |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Verne |
| Gulliver's Travels | political satire writen by Swift |
| Symbolism | is the visualization of a play's idea through special scenic treatment |
| Expressionism | is exaggerated symbolism. It usually disorts the scenic elements |
| Impressionism | attempts to enable the audience to see through the character's eyes. |
| Realism | realistic setting |
| Form Follows Function | Louis Sullivan |
| Siren | are female characters from Greek mythology |
| Atlantes | are supports in post-and-lintel architecture which are carved in initation of male figures |
| Corinthian Columns | are an order of Greek architecture and are distingushed by bell shaped capitals carved with acanthus tendrils |
| Caryatids | are supports in post-and-lintel architecture which are carved in imitation of female figures |
| Shakespeare and Milton wrote is what poems in what style? | iambic pentameter |
| Et tu, Brute | Julius Caesar |
| Billy Budd | involves a hanging at sea |
| In Cold Blood | involves the hanging of a murderer in the 1950's |
| The Oxbow Incident | involves a hanging in hte Wild West |
| An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge | involves an impromptu executin during the Civil War |
| Henry Moore | was a sculptor |
| Which novel by Dickens, does a convict become the benefactor of an orphan boy? | Great Expecrations |
| One of the greatest New England poets of the twentieth century was: | Robert Frost |
| One of the greatest New York poets of the twentieth century was: | Walt Whitman |
| T.S. Eliot | is the famous American expatriate poet |
| H.L. Mencken | A Maryland jouralist aslo wrote a famous work about American language and culture |
| The American Language | H.L. Mencken |
| ee cummings | is a famous American poet |
| A.E. Hotchner | is a contemporary science fiction writer |
| Most of Bach's organ and vocel music was composed for | Church |
| The works of Sir Walter Scott are generally considered part of which literary period | Romantic |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe, Kenilworth and The Waverly Novels |
| Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin |
| The barber of Seville | Rossini |
| Carmen | Bizet |
| Tristan and Isolde | Wagner |
| On the Town | Bernstein |
| Rigoletto | Verdi |
| Don Giovanni | Mozart |
| was a surrealist artist | Salvador Dali |
| An opera of the famous Spanish nobleman who lived to seek pleasure: | Don Giovanni |
| An opera which portrays the lives and struggles of black Americans in the South; | Porgy and Bess |
| Carpe Diem: | Seize the day |
| Epiphany | is a James Joyce term for a sudden enlightenment |
| Euphenism | is a grandios term for a simple idea |
| Euphony | means sounds pleasant to the ear |
| Cacophaony | means sound unpleasant to the ear |
| According to Aristole, what are important elements in the structure of a play? | Plot, Beginning, Middle and End |
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