Humanities 3 Flashcards
Which Shakespeare play is considered by many critics to be the Bard’s finest study of guilt and conscience following a crime?
Macbeth. Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and tries to wash the imagine blood of Kind Duncan off her hands, and Macbeth himself sees the ghost of the bloodied Banquo during a public celebration, thereby providing one more clue to the populace that he and his wife were responsible for the death of the rightful king.
In which of the following tales is a house presented as a personification of a family?
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This work is famous for its personification of the fading fortunes of the Pyncheon family in Salem. The imploding and collapse of the structure at the end of the novel represents the end of the family that had been cursed during the witchcraft trials.
Which of the following is a twentieth-century novel about the Wild West written in the tradition of realistic movement?
The Oxbow Incident by Walter Van Tillburg Clark
Which of the following poets is known as an American original who experiments with extensive works of detailed images and free verse?
Walt Whitman
What was Mark Twain’s real name?
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Which author often wrote poems about the ugliness and horror of the Industrial Revolution?
William Blake
In poetry, the term EPIC refers to?
A long poem written about heroic actions.
Which of the following plays focuses on a marriage built on a lie and problems with eyesight?
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
In which play does Gregers return home to find that Gina, who was once a maid in his family, is now married to Hjalmar. Gregers believed that Gina was impregnated by his father, Old Werle, who is slowly losing his eyesight.
Gregers believes that Gina and Hjalmar’s marries is based on a lie?
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Tartruffe is best described as a play about?
A man of considerable stature duped by a hypocrite. The play was written by Moliere
An insula refers to?
multi-storied Roman apartment block
An agora refers to?
Greek public meeting square
What is the western portion of a Carolingian church called?
Westwerk
What is a vertical groove on the surface of a column called?
flute
Berkeley’s famous dictum, “Esse est percipi” (To be is to be perceived), is associated most strongly with the outlook known as?
Idealism.
Berkeley is perhaps the clearest advocate of idealism in the history of philosophy.
Which jazz saxophonist was named “Bird”?
Charlie Parker
Which jazz tenor saxophonist is famous for his “Giant Steps”?
John Coltrane, it was the name of his album.
Which tenor saxophonist is famous for “The Girl from Impanema”?
Stan Getz
Who is considered the father of jazz tenor sax?
Coleman Hawkins
A collaboration between Aaron Copland and the dance-choreographer Agnes de Mille resulted in the creation of which ballet suite?
Rodeo
Which of the following novels of adventure presents the most detailed picture of eighteenth century English manorial and city life?
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
This novel is known for its wanton characterization and surprising turns of plot, it is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque of the picaresque (defined as life story of a rascal of low degree, consisting of a series of thrilling incidents)
Which of the following is among the most famous of English works by the group of writers called the “Decadents”?
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
The important literary concept of “pathetic fallacy” was first set forth in?
Ruskin’s Modern Painters. He actually introduced the phrase to denote a tendency of some poets and writers to credit nature with emotions of human beings as in “The cruel crawling foam” Nowadays, it has come to mean writing that is false in it emotionalism, even if the topic is not nature.
A reaction against utilitarianism - the theory of ethics formulated in England in the eighteenth century - can be seen in the nineteenth-century literature, such as?
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield.
Contained an opposing argument for utilitarianism, which was an argument from the previous century that said “The greatest happiness for the greatest number”. The theory was proposed by Jeremy Bentham, and was modified and promoted by James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill.
Which of the following writers participated energetically in the Celtic Revival of the eighteenth century?
James Macpherson. He invented, recorded, and reinterpreted Gaelic pieces preserved in the Scottish highlands and published translations of the great early Celtic poem Ossian.
Which famous poets wrote:
Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
Emily Dickinson, the use of the long dash often gives her away, it’s one of her trademarks
Which famous poet wrote:
As soon as April pierces the root
The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot
Geoffrey Chaucer
This is the famous opening from The Canterbury Tales.
Who is said to be the father of English poetry?
Chaucer (1400)
Which famous poet wrote:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
William Wordsworth
Which famous poet wrote:
Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden fruit whose mortal taste
John Milton.
This is the opening line of Paradise Lost
Which famous poet wrote:
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill
Wallace Stevens
poem called Anecdote of the Jar
Who wrote this opening line:
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from an uneasy dream he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect
Franz Kafka’s opening line from Metamorphosis
The best definition for the original use of scapegoat is?
a victim sacrificed for the redemption of the tribe being driven into the wilderness
Which of the following types of ancient Roman architecture most directly influenced the development of early Christian church planning?
Basilica
Dance was originated by?
savage hunters
The logical fallacy involved in concluding that the universe itself must have a cause because every event in the universe has a cause is?
The fallacy of composition
The themes of many musical compositions are often that of folk music. Which composer is most famous for his folk music settings for wind ensembles?
Percy Grainger
Which of the following is considered among the “American Ethnic” body of literature?
Philip Roth’s Goodbye Columbus
It was a big hit in the 1950’s ushering in the age of the American Ethnic novelist. The novel is about a rocky young romance within a suburban New York Jewish-American context. It’s both an American success story and a recollection of transformation for generations between immigrant and native born.
One of the most famous and prophetic descriptions of settlements in young America was?
Letters from an American Farmer by Alexis de Tocqueville
This novel is considered one of the most perceptive and accurate portraits of the newly independent American nation.
Which modern novel describes the difficulties faced by African-Americans in the 20th century America?
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Which nineteenth century novel was used as an accurate travel guide well into this century?
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Which novel recalls a time of medieval chivalry?
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe
Written in the 19th century, it deals with the 13th century
It has been said that Victorian poetry is essentially a continuation of the poetry of the romantic movement. This can be seen in?
Arnolds veneration of Wordsworth
Veneration: great respect
Which is one of the most hilarious stores from Huckleberry Finn - one which demonstrates both the accepting nature and eventual canniness of the heartland Americans?
The Duke and the Dauphin
Twain relates the story of a bogus pretender to the French throne and his accompli who perform what they hope will pass as Shakespeare to frontier audiences. Initially taken by the idea, the settlers get wise to their scam and chase them out of town.
For what purpose was the Taj Mahal in India originally built?
it was built by Shah Jahan as a house for his wife
What is this an example of:
On the one-ton temple bell
a moonmoth, folded into sleep,
sits still
A haiku
A Japanese poem that contains 17 syllables
What does bathos mean?
An abrupt fall from the beautiful to the funny. The previous sentence is an example of bathos: an abrupt turn from the serious and poetic to the regular and silly. Rather than likening the woman to a beautiful bird, she is compared, surprisingly, to a tired, old peacock.
Which poet gave us the term “negative capability”?
John Keats. Romantic poet John Keats in 1817 to characterize the capacity of the greatest writers to pursue a vision of artistic beauty even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.
In literary terms, what does the Greek anagnorisis mean?
Recognition or discovery.the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge. … Anagnorisis usually involves revelation of the true identity of persons previously unknown
What best describes Mark Antony’s intent in the public oration that he makes regarding Julius Caesar’s death?
The public is aided in its discovery of the villain
