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