Humanities 1010 – Flashcards
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What is NOT a reason to study the humanities according to "Digger" Phelps?
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The arts enhance our financial status.
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Which opinion would most excited the personal in Whitaman's poem, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer?"
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Receiving a powerful telescope for Christmas.
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Which definition of humanities is not true?
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Professional training in technology.
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What is the source of fear in Faulkner's Nobel Prize Award speech?
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The threat of atomic holocaust, being blown up.
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According to Socrates himself, which metaphor best describes his "method?"
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A woman being assisted in child birth.
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According to Robert Shaw. "Art is the open hand of a man reaching for his mother."
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False
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Carpe diem is a two-edged sword because it means both seize the day and relinquish the night.
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False
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Socrates best personifies the Sophic tradition.
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True
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Van Gogh's painting transformed Darwin's life forever.
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False
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Our word "humanities" is related to the Latin Humanitas, which means human nature, culture, kindness, or compassion.
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True
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IN Hesse's story, "Within and Without," Fredrick and Erwin represent the two sides, of man, the mantic and the sophic, RESPECTIVELY.
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False
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Whitman's poem teaches us that true learning should be experimental (hands-on).
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True
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To be an Athenian, according to Posman's "Graduation Speech," is to focus on one's own affairs to aspire to popularity.
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False
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The text defines the essence of creativity
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As giving form to what which is formless.
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What was Ed Hart's point in his essay, "The Need Beyond Reason?"
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Humans have basic needs to create.
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Howard Gardner believes that creativity is not a general (global) skill, but specific to an "intelligence."
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True
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Which of these choices is the best example of a "Big C" creative activity.
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Painting of the Mona Lisa.
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Teresa Amabile likens creativity to making a
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Stew
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The essay at the end of Chapter 4 ("Commentary on the Arts") claims that creativity wanes with age.
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False
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In what stage of the process does the "Ah-ha" occur?
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4
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Which is not a stage within the creative process?
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Second Thoughts.
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Archimedes' bathtub discovery of specific gravity gave rise to which stage?
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"Ah-ha!"
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According to our text, "aesthetic" refers to:
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The Senses.
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What is NOT an important aspect of the aesthetic experience?
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It fosters a hypercritical attitude of detachment.
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Farber's metaphor for the aesthetic experience is:
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Framing
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What are some of the questions critics ask about a work of art?
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What is is, What is is made of, How is it put together, What does it mean?
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According to Peter Elbow, "The most effective way... to improve your writing is to do ___ exercises."
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Freewriting
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"The most controversial modern work exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show in NYC?"
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Duchamp's, "Nude Descending Staircase"
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Americans in general find it more difficult than Europeans to enjoy the fine arts/
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True
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According to the text, what is a more legitimate reaction to an artwork?
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"I like what I know."
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The closes English equivalent (translation) of the Greek kritikos, would probably be.
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Judge
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains of criticism.
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Conclusion
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notion of "willing suspension of disbelief" is connected to which concept?
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Aesthetic stance.
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What is the conclusion reached in the film Why Man Creates? In other words, why does man create?
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So something of us lives on after we die.
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What is Goeth's three fundamental questions to ask about any work of art?
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What is the artist trying to do? How well does he/she do it? Was it worth doing?
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What are the 3 classical literary genres?
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Epic, Lyric, Dramatic
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According to the text, why did Dylan Thomas start writing poetry?
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He fell in love with nursery rhymes.
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What is true about Shakespearean sonnet?
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It's a strict metrical form of 14 lines, it follows a strict rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg. It was particularly popular during the renaissance, and it develops a single theme.
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Identify the meter of the following lines of poetry: "Tiger! Tiger! burning bright, In the forests of the night."
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Tochaic.
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When we refer to spring as a season of rebirth and beginning love we're using:
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Connotation.
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"You're eyes are emeralds" is an example of:
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Metaphor
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Of the "Four Senses of Interpretation," which one refers to the spiritual?
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Anagogical
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A three-line imagistic poem is called:
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A Haiku
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What are the parts to the poetic "feet"?
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Dactyl, Iamb, Spondee, Anapest.
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Another word for "overstatement"
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Hyperbole.
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"The snake slithers and hisses" is an example of
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Onomatopoeia
