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.
