Humanities 19 Flashcards
What do Frederico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, and Akira Kurosawa have in common?
They are all influential filmmakers
Which playwright wrote the Theban plays that tell the tragic story of Oedipus and his family?
Sophocles
During which literary period were the following novels written?
I. Middlemarch
II. A Tale of Two Cities
III. Wuthering Heights
Victorian Era
It includes free-standing three-dimensional sculptures.
It is often characterized by colorful stained glass.
It makes use of flying buttresses and pointed arches.
It is focused on filling dark buildings with sunlight.
Characteristic of Gothic architecture
What period did the following belong to: Antonio Vivaldi Johann Sebastian Bach George Frideric Handel Claudio Monteverdi
Baroque composers
What was the main point of Thomas Paine’s 1776 work Common Sense?
America should rebel against England.
Which novel was written as a protest response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the United States?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Traditional east Asian music is characterized by the use of the _____ scale.
pentatonic
The 1884 painting by Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, uses which of the following painting techniques or styles?
pointillism
Which classic author inspired the structure, themes, and plot of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses?
Homer
The Odyssey
Which of the following is a ballet about a man named Franz falling in love with a life-like female doll?
Coppelia
Ancient peoples frequently made _____, which were sculptures made into a flat medium with the figures only coming out from the flat background slightly, to honor kings or record legends.
bas-reliefs
Which Victorian era sisters initially wrote under pseudonyms to hide the fact that they were women?
Bronte Sisters
Which composer emphasized the words of songs through techniques like imitative polyphony?
Josquin de Prez
Mark is listening to a music performance that he really likes. However, he’s having some difficulty describing it. The music is chanted and sung with complex lyrics, yet the melody seems to be rather light and simple. Which of the following BEST describes this music?
A mele
Wisdom from the past is a theme in American Romantic literature. It is demonstrated in which of the following works?
'’Paul Revere’s Ride’’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Which elements greatly influenced Victorian literature?
Explosive population growth, technological innovations, advancements in science, the Industrial Revolution, and poor working conditions
‘Madrigals’ belong to which musical category?
Secular music
Madrigals are secular multi-voice songs sung without accompaniment.
key traits of music in East Asia?
It is based on a pentatonic scale. Some of its key traits are linearity and transparency. It is also highly known for a very low use of abstraction in music.
‘The Lost Generation’ was a group of American expatriates living abroad that included which two important literary figures?
Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein
The most famous writers of the Lost Generation were Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, and T.S. Eliot.
Sartoris and The Sound and the Fury both take place in _____, the birthplace of their author William Faulkner.
the American South
Faulkner was born and raised in Mississippi
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is an example of free verse, a literary technique which can be described as _____.
poetry without meter or rhyme
The transcendentalist perspective is reflected in which of Herman Melville’s works?
'’Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street’’
Mark Twain wrote about his experiences in Hannibal, Missouri as a child. His accurate and in-depth descriptions of place made him one of the first _____.
Regionalists
Mark Twain is considered the first Regionalist, a writer who focused on accurate representation of a specific region.
Which Modernist author wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck’s notable work of Modern American literature is called _____.
The Grapes of Wrath
Henry David Thoreau considered Walden Pond a place of true introspection and a place to be self-reliant. The resulting novel Walden encompassed these notions, important to which literary movement?
Transcendentalism
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel _____ played a role in starting _____.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Civil War
The idea that one should develop an individual relationship with God and nature and reject organized religion is characteristic of what literary movement?
transcendentalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald developed a long friendship with whom?
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that _____ individuals were needed in the social spheres of religion, arts, culture, and society.
Self-Reliant
Which Dark Romantic author is known for using extremely long, drawn-out sentences?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s _____ was a call to arms inviting Americans to foster change through their individuality and strengths.
‘Self-Reliance’
‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ and ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ are examples of the _____ of Ernest Hemingway.
short stories
In The Catcher in the Rye, the passing of Holden Caulfield’s brother instills in him a desire to do what?
Protect innocent things from harm
Stream-of-consciousness is a style used by William Faulkner and who else?
James Joyce
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe are considered _____.
Dark Romantics
The Great Depression was the setting for which famous American novel?
The Grapes of Wrath
Which is the oldest of the Classical orders?
Doric
How did Samuel Beckett influence later playwrights?
He allowed actors and directors to interpret plays in new ways.
What is catharsis?
The evocation of pity and fear in the audience.
Why did Sidney argue against the notion that poets can lead society astray?
He felt poets cannot lie because they actually affirm nothing.
In The Defense of Poesy, Philip Sidney argues that fiction cannot lead anyone astray because poets do not affirm anything and therefore they do not lie.
What kind of move is a ‘pirouette’?
a turn
Which of the following lines from Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is an example of free indirect discourse?
‘What a lark! What a plunge!’
Note that free indirect discourse sort of means a third person representation of a person’s thoughts, but without the ‘he said,’ ‘he thought’, ‘he considered’ tags. An example of a basic free indirect discourse is ‘What a lark! What a plunge!’ Notice that this line is not used with ‘he or she said’. It’s basically a voice and thoughts, getting into an untagged narrative.
A painter known for his scenes of the American West
Frederick Remington
The American poet who wrote such works as Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and The Santa Fe trail?
Vachel Lindsay
The Globe Theater
was built in 1599
depended on natural lighting
was closed on all sides but open on top
had a stage that extended into the audience area
Most jazz has a standrad
theme and variation
A single melody with subordinate harmonyy
homophonic
A Roman writer of comedy
Plautus
Plautus and Terence were the great Roman writers of comedy
“How do I love thee? Let me count the way” is from?
Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The authors of the U.S. Constitution drew most heavily from the work of a 17th century English philosopher, particularly from his Two Treatises on Government. The philosopher’s name is?
John Locke
Instrumentation of a classical string quartet?
two violins, a viola, and a cello
Three score and ten is what age
70
Three score is 3 times 20 = 6- +10
What term describes a curved line connecting two or more notes that are to be played legato?
a slur
Legato: indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance
The third degree of a major scale is given when name?
Mediant
An a prior truth is one known to be?
independent of experience
The belief that a human being has an absolute power to choose his or her own destiny is the hallmark of?
existentialism
