Humanities 10

Question 1

What architectural style does the following describe:

Sheer verticality of twin towers, overall upward movement, and the multitude of pinnacles

Answer 1

High Gothic Style

Question 2

When a piece of music has a time signature of 4/4 a quarter note receives how many beats?

Answer 2

1
The top number of the time signature is equal to the number of beats in a measure. The bottom number denotes which note is equal to one beat.

Question 3

Which musical style is characterized by a swing feel, a strong rhythmic beat, and improvisation?

Answer 3

Jazz

Question 4

Which musical style combines elements of country, rhythm and blues, and other black idioms such as gospel and the blues?

Answer 4

Rock n Roll

Question 5

What musical style is an orchestral work with three or four movements?

Answer 5

A symphony

Question 6

What musical style is a vocal dramatic work?

Answer 6

Opera

Question 7

goes beyond the surreal and often includes the world of the unconscious or dreams

Answer 7

surrealism writing

Question 8

present life as they feel it to be, not as is appears

Answer 8

expressionistic writing

Question 9

presents life as the writer wishes it could be and usually describes strange lands and adventures

Answer 9

romantic writing

Question 10

style used by novelists of the 18 and 19th centuries which relies on greater-than-life heroes, villains, and a grandiose sense of the macabre

Answer 10

Gothic style of writing

Question 11

detailed descriptions of everyday life

Answer 11

realistic style of writing

Question 12

non-metrical language, the opposite of verse

Answer 12

prose

Question 13

a poem of lamentation for the dead

Answer 13

elegy

Question 14

a type of reasoning pattern in which the conclusion does not follow the line of reasoning used to reach it

Answer 14

non sequitur

Question 15

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

Answer 15

free verse

Question 16

a stage projecting into the audience and the audience surrounding the stage on three sides?

Answer 16

Thrust stage

Question 17

when the audience is seated on two sides of the stage?

Answer 17

central stage

Question 18

traditional staging in a theatre with proscenium arch

Answer 18

Proscenium stage

Question 19

audience is completely surrounding the playing area

Answer 19

theater-in-the-round

Question 20

Famous French building characterized by flying buttresses

Answer 20

Notre Dame Cathedral

Question 21

famous building characterized by Doric columns and high-relief metopes of the Doric frieze

Answer 21

Parthenon

Question 22

Famous building characterized by frescoes and barrel-vaulted ceilings

Answer 22

The Sistine Chapel

Question 23

Famous palace of Louis XIV, outside of Paris, characterized by the ornate style of baroque grandeur

Answer 23

Versailles

Question 24

the main interior room of an ancient Greek temple, in which the cult statue was sheltered

Answer 24

cella, as in the Parthenon cella

Question 25

is a Doric peripteral temple, which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side, and a colonnade (8 x 17) of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure. Each entrance has an additional six columns in front of it.

Answer 25

Parthenon

Question 26

the inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, situated between the portico’s colonnade or walls and the entrance to the cella, or shrine. Roman temples commonly had an open pronaos, usually with only columns and no walls, and the pronaos could be as long as the cella.

Answer 26

portico

Question 27

Difference between the Pantheon and Parthenon

Answer 27

The Pantheon and the Parthenon are both ancient temples. While the Pantheon was built in Rome to celebrate all the Roman gods, the Parthenon was built in Ancient Greece for the goddess Athena. The Parthenon pre-dates the Pantheon by about six centuries; it was built around 447-438 BCE, while the Pantheon was built in 126 CE.

Question 28

is characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

Answer 28

Baroque style

Question 29

a lament for the dead, song that is part of funeral rite

Answer 29

dirge

Question 30

what stage direction occurs when the actor directly addressed the audience, while out of hearing of the other actors?

Answer 30

an aside

Question 31

is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery.

Answer 31

anagnorsis

Question 32

occurs when a moment of high tragedy at the emotional climax of a play is followed by an emotional cleansing for the characters and the audience.

Answer 32

a catharsis

Question 33

The significant moment in the plot of a play, when things change, or reach a crisis point.

Answer 33

climax

Question 34

The moment in a drama when the essential plot point is unravelled or explained. (e.g. “So you see I couldn’t have killed the gardener. Because I AM the gardener” (Loud organ music etc.)).

Answer 34

denouement

Question 35

The section of plot at the start of a play which provides essential background information about the characters, their situation, and their relationships to each other.

Answer 35

exposition

Question 36

The events in a play that occur after the climax has been reached, but before the final part.

Answer 36

falling action

Question 37

Form of comedy play originated in France, using fast-paced physical action and visual comedy more than humour based on language.

Answer 37

farce

Question 38

Predominantly European artistic and philosophical movement that arose due to changes in society and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement is also seen as a reaction against the horrors of World War 1. Characterised by a rejection of ‘traditional’ artistic forms; gave rise to abtract art, atonal music, stream-of-consciousness writing etc.
Initially modernist theatre was an attempt to employ naturalistic principles, as advocated by Emile Zola in the 1880s. However, a simultaneous reaction against naturalism attempted to integrate poetry, painting, music and dance in a harmonious fusion.

Answer 38

Modernism

Question 39

An allegorical performance in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Answer 39

morality play

Question 40

any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. One example is the flute sound in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

Answer 40

a motif

Question 41

Introductory musical piece played before a musical which contains many of the musical motifs and themes of the score.

Answer 41

overture

Question 42

Lines delivered by an actor on stage as if to her/himself

Answer 42

soliloquy

Question 43

is a form of theatre originally developed by avant-garde French playwright, essayist, and theorist Henry Becque.
Antonin Artaud, some 50 years later, is also seen as a main contributor to the genre, notably with The Theatre and its Double. Originally a member of the surrealist movement, Artaud eventually began to develop his own theatrical theories. The Theatre of Cruelty can be seen as a break from traditional Western theatre and a means by which artists assault the senses of the audience, and allow them to feel the unexpressed emotions of the subconscious. While Artaud was only able to produce one play in his lifetime that reflected the tenets of the Theatre of Cruelty, the works of many theatre artists reflect his theories. These artists include Jean Genet, Jerzy Grotowski, and Peter Brook.

Answer 43

Theater of Cruelty

Question 44

form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization.

Answer 44

tragedy

Question 45

known as Distancing Effect or Alienation Effect, this is a concept coined by Bertholt Brecht “which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, and which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer.”

Answer 45

the V-effect

Question 46

Hagia Sophia was originally built as?

Answer 46

Byzantine palace church

Question 47

The art of using movement instead of words to create a story refers to
an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner

Answer 47

mime

Question 48

the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
a play or entertainment in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures, often to the accompaniment of music.
significant gesture without speech.

Answer 48

pantomime

Question 49

the ability to adapt the body to the properties of things

Answer 49

mimetic imitation

Question 50

a technique in which a performer creates circumstances and applies it to games

Answer 50

improvisation

Question 51

group of masked characters presenting plays in an improvisational form

Answer 51

commedia dell’arte