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Theater appreciation 7-9 – Flashcards 85 terms

Lewis Gardner

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Theater appreciation 7-9 – Flashcards

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Which of the following is NOT a convention of dramatic structure?

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limited conflict

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Medieval cycle plays were known to go on for as long as

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twenty five days

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A full account of an event or series of events, usually told in chronological order, is called a

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story

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A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a

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plot

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An impediment that is put in a character's way is called a(n)

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obstacle

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An outside force or new twist in the plot introduced at an opportune moment is a(n)

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complication

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The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the

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climax

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"To make a political statement" is a

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purpose

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"To portray a story in a comic manner" is a

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viewpoint

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"The story of Electra" is a

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subject

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"To entertain royalty" is a

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purpose

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"To present events as heroic" is a

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viewpoint

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"The events of the Holocaust" is a

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subject

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"A love story" is a

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subject

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"To escape" is a

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purpose

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"To reinforce religious beliefs" is a

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purpose

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"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel" is

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viewpoint

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The first task of the dramatist is to decide what aspect of people and their concerns to write about in order to give the play a purpose

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true

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If playwrights are writing about a historical event, it is inappropriate for them to change the order of events to suit their purpose.

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False

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The subject of drama varies greatly, and at certain times throughout theatre history, drama has focused on human beings, but more often than not the subjects of drama are quite different. Question

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false

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An example of point of view in film might be the various angles of vision and perspectives that the camera selects for us.

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true

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If two or more playwrights create a play based on the same story, it is important that the facts of that story remain consistent from one play to the next.

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false

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Dramatic action is the essence of drama, and even the word drama derives from the word dran, which means "to act" or "to do."

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true

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The word genre means "an ability to generalize about all human beings by observing a small portion of their actions."

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false

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The viewpoint of a theatre artist actually provides the audience with a key to understanding the actions and words of the characters on stage.

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true

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The fact that Euripides was writing tragedies at the same time that Aristophanes was writing satirical farces serves as an example that it is possible for a multiplicity of individual viewpoints to be expressed in drama regardless of the prevailing societal viewpoint.

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true

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Politicians and advertisers often hide their point of view, whereas a playwright's imposition of their point of view is direct and deliberate

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true

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined this statement regarding a playwright's point of view: "The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel."

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false

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Two periods that were particularly conducive to the creation of tragic drama were the eighteenth century (the age of enlightenment) and the nineteenth century (the century of progress).

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false

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Although it is an aspect of basic human nature that people like to categorize all things, it is often not best to try place all plays into distinct categories, as that is a practice that does not recognize those plays that are unique and original in their point of view or style.

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true

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In our contemporary world it is important to recognize a feminist or woman's point of view in analyzing and understanding dramatic works as that viewpoint has not always been considered or respected throughout history but it is essential to the future development of dramatic works.

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true

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One technique that works effectively is to structure most of the play with a looser organization that allows the playwright to create a tightly structured ending in order to make the viewpoint clear.

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false

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Another danger of categorizing dramatic works is that this diverts our focus from the single most important aspect of theatrical production: to experience the play live and to react to it in the moment.

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true

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The technical term for revelation of background material in a play is

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exposition

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Another word that means "contrast in the connection of scenes" is

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juxtaposition

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A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a(n)

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plot

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The fifteen performers who sang, danced, chanted, and sometimes interacted with the main characters in a classic Greek drama are called the

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chorus

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A repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or a transaction which has acquired special meaning is called a

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ritual

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An intellectual or artistic movement that breaks with tradition and therefore seems ahead of its time is called ________; literally, it means "advance guard in a military formation."

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avant-garde

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The main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman is

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Nora Helmer

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Harlequin

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was at the heart of most plot complications in the commedia dell'arte

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Minor characters are

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all of the above

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Narrators in the most traditional sense remain outside the action of the play and typically comment on the action communicating directly with the audience.

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true

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It has become more common in contemporary plays for characters within the play to "step out of their character" and also serve the function of a narrator by speaking directly to the audience about the action.

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true

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When nonhuman characters are written into a script it is typically because the producers do not want to create a stage prop when an actor can solve the problem nicely.

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false

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he term "robot" was actually first used in an early twentieth-century play by Neil Simon

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false

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We know that playwrights frequently write plays about a single family in classic climactic structure and they will also occasionally create two contrasting characters that are siblings or husband and wife in order to allow character traits to stand out more dramatically in the action.

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true

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Minor characters in a play are always written as basic stock characters.

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false

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Common structure in musical theatre requires that every song have a segment that involves the chorus.

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false

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A tableaux structure begins with characters arranged in a visual stage picture and the action, frequently nonverbal, proceeds from that tableaux until the end of the scene.

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true

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Patterns as structure exist not only in dance but also in some plays, where the characters' movement and circumstances can be repetitive, as in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

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true

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As seen in some of Chekhov's plays it is possible to combine the climactic and the episodic forms

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True

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the hero or heroine is an extraordinary person and a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman, etc.

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Tradition Tragedy

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the language used in the play is prose.

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modern tragedy

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the heroes or heroines meet their fate with such dignity and determination that they defy the gods.

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Traditional tragedy

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the action is exaggerated, with the main characters always living on the edge of danger.

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melodrama

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the language used in the play is verse.

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Traditional Tragedy

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the subtext often appears much stronger than the surface expressions of the emotions, tensions, and thoughts.

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bourgeois or domestic drama

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A characteristic of _____________ is that the heroes and heroines accept responsibility for their actions and also show a willingness to suffer and an immense capacity for suffering.

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Traditional tragedy

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A characteristic of ____ is that characters are clearly recognizable as good or evil

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melodrama

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a modern example of

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heroic drama

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reflects the view that the individual human being is a helpless victim of society.

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modern tragedy

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heroic drama

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includes serious drama of any period which features many of the traits of traditional tragedy, but has a happy ending or a basically optimistic worldview even when the ending is sad.

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The situation becomes irretrievable: there is no turning back, no way out in

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traditional tragedy

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The central figures of the play are caught in a series of tragic circumstances in

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Traditional tragedy

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heroic drama

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assumes a basically optimistic view of the universe, and places faith in the ability of humanity to overcome adversity.

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Bourgeois or domestic drama

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includes plays that deal with middle- or lower-middle- class characters confronting problems of the family and the home rather than affairs of state

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King Oedipus is an example of

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traditional tragedy

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There is a strong emphasis on suspense in

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melodrama

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Because we no longer have a society that believes in the concept of "the Gods" as they did in ancient Greece, traditional Greek tragedies are no longer feasible to consider for contemporary productions

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false

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Plays that convey humanity's sense of alienation and its loss of bearings in an illogical, unjust, and ridiculous world are called theatres of

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the absurd

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comedy?

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sense that the universe is cruel and unfeeling

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The use of a word that sounds like the right word but actually is a different word altogether is the use of a(n)

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malaprop

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A humorous use of words with the same sound but different meanings is the use of a(n)

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pun

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Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?

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strong emphasis on suspense

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Because existentialism suggests that characters have no personal history before the play begins, no background, and therefore no specific causes for their action, the structure of an existentialist play is often lacking in

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exposition

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In tragicomedy, the overview, or prevailing attitude, is a ________ of the serious and comic.

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synthesis

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Some tragicomedies, such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, have been called

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problem plays

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A type of broad, exaggerated comedy that takes marriage and sex as objects of fun is called

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bedroom farce

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Which of the following would NOT be considered slapstick comedy?

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A woman watches her husband slowly die after giving him the wrong medication

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When Horace Walpole said "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel," he was probably NOT thinking

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one should think about one thing profoundly and a thousand things well.

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Which of the following is NOT a feature of melodrama

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Even if the ending is sad, an optimistic worldview is present

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Which of the following things did NOT happen to or because of the Regina Giddens character in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes?

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Regina learned that her husband was a homosexual and he threatened to kill himself.

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In the modern period, tragicomedy has become the predominant form of many of the best playwrights

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true

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false

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Humanities 1010 – Flashcards 46 terms

Gabriela Compton

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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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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

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The Art of Theater Ch. 14 – Flashcards 14 terms

James Hopper

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During the Renaissance many people thought ancient Greek plays were entirely sung. This led to what new type of theatre?

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Commedia dell'arte

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During the Renaissance some scholars idolized the Romans and Greeks; they rejected the traditional curriculum of theology and instead studied the classical subjects. These scholars were called?

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The Students of Humanities

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During the Renaissance the theatre turned to Aristotle for laws regarding dramatic structure. Scholars came up with three unbreakable rules, which they called the Unities—a form of "classical correctness." Which of the following is NOT one of the unities?

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The unity of tragedy

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In Shakespeare's day acting companies were often accused of being vagabonds.

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True

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Which playwright killed an actor but got out of jail by pleading "benefit of clergy?"

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Ben Jonson

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Mary Frith was charged by an ecclesiastical authority for acting on stage—what was so unusual about her performance?

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Women were not allowed on stage at that time

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During the Renaissance there was a lack of theatres in Paris, so where were plays often performed?

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Tennis courts

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The Enlightenment led to what to new types of theatre?

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Domestic tragedies and sentimental comedies

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What happened to the actors who staged the first play in what would later become the United States?

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They were arrested

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During the Renaissance, three broad categories of theatre came to dominate Europe. Which of the following does not belong?

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Fine art

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Commedia dell'arte, though popular throughout all of Europe, has its roots in _____.

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Italy

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_____ is the leading man in the commedia dell'arte.

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Innamorata

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Calderon is one of Spain's most popular playwrights. His play, _____, is regarded by some as the Hamlet of the Golden Age of Spanish drama.

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Life is a Dream

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Which of the following Elizabethan playwrights wrote an infamous play based on the life of Faust?

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Christopher Marlow

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Ancient Greek Drama Liberty Leading The People

HUM II Midterm – Flashcards 70 terms

Brenda Gannon

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What is a defining characteristic of Baroque art?

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Attention to viewer's emotional experience of a work

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Why did Baroque artists place elements on a diagonal, not the Renaissance frontal and parallel planes?

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To produce a sense of action

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In his Cornaro Chapel sculptural program, with that did Bernini equate Saint Teresa's religious vision?

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Sexual Orgasm

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While his coworkers constructed his designs, what hobby did Bernini pursue?

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Writing plays and designing stage sets

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Why did Caravaggio portray his subject in The Calling of Saint Matthew in attire of his time, not Jesus's?

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To enable the audience to identify with them

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What technique that contrasts large ares of dark with smaller illuminated areas did Caravaggio master?

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Tenebrism

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Why was Artmesia Gentileschi so obsessed with the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes that she painted five versions of it?

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Gentileschi had been raped

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What inspired the first opera?

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Ancient Greek drama

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Why were only girls in Venice's orphanages given music instruction?

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It was assumed that boys would enter the labor force

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Why is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music?

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Its purely instrumental music is connected to a story or idea

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Why was portraiture especially popular with the middle-class seventeenth-century Dutch?

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Affirmation of their financial well-being

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Why did the Dutch rebel against the Spanich in 1567?

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Philip II reorganized their churches under Catholic hierarchy

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From where did Europe receive the first load of tulip bulbs?

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Turkey

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According to Francis Bacon, what were the greatest obstacles to human understanding?

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Superstition and religion

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What manner of inquiry did Rene Descartes advocate?

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Deductive reasoning

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Why were the Catholic and Protestant Churches opposed to Kepler's and Galileo's heliocentric theory?

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For contradicting certain biblical passages

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Of what does a vanitas painting remind the viewer?

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To focus on the spiritual, not the material

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What might the pearls in Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace represent?

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Purity

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Why was Rembrandt so interested in self-portraiture?

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His own face provided the ideal practice subject

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What provided one of the main forms of entertainment at Dutch famliy gatherings?

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The performance of keyboard music

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Why does Louis XIV wear red high-heeled shoes in Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait?

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To elevate his 5'4" height

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Why has the era of Louis XIV's reign become known as the Age of Absolutism?

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Louis was a strong monarch who exerted power based on divine right

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How was Louis able to maintain such a well-disciplined, loyal army?

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The army was well-supplied and regularly paid

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What is meant by a Rubenesque figure?

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Fleshy and voluptuous

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According to Poussin, what should be a painting's subject matter?

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Classical mythology or Christian tradition

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What new dance form emerged form Louis's court?

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Minuet

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Why did the English Parliament raise an army against King Charles I in 1642?

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For proposing changes in the Church of England's liturgy

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Why did the New England Puritants have themselves painted in luxurious attire?

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Prosperity was their reward for being a good Christian

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Which Baroque artist greatly influenced Diego Velazquez's paintings?

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Caravaggio

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Why did the Spanish program to convert the Pueblo to Christianity fail in 1680?

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The Pueblo revolted and killed many of the Spanish

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What caused the 1666 Great Fire of London?

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A baker's oven explosion

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Why was the Great Fire advantageous to London?

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It allowed the city's center to be modernized

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Which of the following was not a source of Wren's inspiration for St. Paul's Cathedral?

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Giotto's Bell Tower

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According to Thomas Hobbes, what two factors motivate people?

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Fear of death at someone else's hands and desire for power

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Why did John Milton write Paradise Lost?

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To justify the ways of God to men

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Why did Jonathan Swift, in "A Modest Proposal," advocate butchering Irish children?

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To satirize the English treatment of the Irish

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According to Isaac Newton, why does the universe function harmoniously and orderly?

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The sun and planets exert gravitational pulls

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What was King George II's response on first hearing the Messiah's "Hallelujah Chorus"?

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Rose from his seat

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What new literary form did Addison and Steele invent for their newspapers?

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Journalistic essay

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Why probably did the Easter Island residents erect the moai (monumental heads)?

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To frighten potential invaders

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With what were the 18th century French philosophes concerned?

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Secular and social concerns

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Which of the following does NOT define Rococo interior architecture?

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Symmetrical surfaces

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Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fetes galantes become so popular?

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Their erotic overtones

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Why do so many of Francois Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour show her writing?

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To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor

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Why does Fragonard paint the young lady in The Swing as losing a shoe?

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To symbolize virginity loss

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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the English garden?

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Manicured flowerbeds

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What view of God did the Deists take?

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God had little to do with humans

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What was the overarching purpose of the Encyclopedie?

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To accumulate and preserve human knowledge

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Why is the mid-eighteenth century did art criticism begin?

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To enable tourists to appreciate and understand art

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Why is the music that arose in reaction to the Rococo called "classical"?

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Its symmetry, proportion, unity, and clarity

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In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's argument for freedom was inspired by

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John Locke

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Which of the following European countries did NOT provide the colonists financial and naval support in their fight against British rule?

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Germany

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In France, what triggered the events leading to revolution?

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The national debt

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Why did the French peasant and working-class women march on Versailles in 1789?

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To demand bread

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Which of the following was NOT a reform instituted by the French Constitutional Congress?

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Providing each citizen two loaves of bread per week

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Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximiliean Robespierre, one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?

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For ordering so many executions himself

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Why did Neoclassicism become the preferred style in late 18th-century United States?

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To reflect the new government, which was formed on classical ideas

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Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?

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Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples

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How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically inaccurate?

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Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule, not a white horse

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Why did North American slaveholders aim to gather Africans of differing backgrounds and languages?

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To reduce the chances of an uprising

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What were the Romantic artists reacting against?

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Neoclassicism's order, control, and balance

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What view of the world did the Romantics value?

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Subjective experience

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Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?

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Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination

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Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats?

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The eternal beauty of its art

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Why were the Romantics so attracted to the sublime - the prospect of anything beyond the human mind to understand?

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It is limitless and unbounded

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In many of his painting, John Constable included a cathedral to

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symbolize God's permanence in nature

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In J.M.W. Turner's paintings, human figures are usually

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small in size

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The Romantics preferred Prometheus for

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being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom

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Francisco Goya became angered by Charles IV for

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abandoning Charles III's liberal reforms

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Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as positive?

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It was necessary for creativity

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western europe music – Flashcards 33 terms

Ruth Jones

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western europe music – Flashcards

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opera

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an elaborated staged work in which the character sings all their lines

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symphony ochestra

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ensemble of fifty or more players reading from notated music

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broadside

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kind of musical newspaper sold by the street singer

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alphorn

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large buzzed-lip horns of wood; places set of pitches known as the harmonic series

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counterpoint

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creating independent melodies that nevertheless work together to control consonance and dissonance

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triads

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standard three-pitch vertical music structure in European music

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ballad

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popular strophic form song of four-line stanzas that correspond to regular musical phrases

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vocables

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sung syllable without linguistic meaning

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lederhosenmusik

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old fashioned popular folk music named for the traditional dress musicians put on for tourists

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landler

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triple-meter couple dance that moves faster than a waltz

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hackbrett

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instrument in which the strings are struck with hammers

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key change or modulation

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when all pitches in a song shift up by a fixed amount

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diskantzither

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an Austrian zither that has melody strings over a fretted fingerboard

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major or minor

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two main types of diatonic modes

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keening

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oldest form of nonpulsatile singing

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medley

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three of so dances usually strung together, one immediately after the other

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slip jig

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step dance that has a distinctive compound triple meter

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cultural importance of the Irish harp

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the Irish harp is the national symbol of Ireland and only country to make an instrument their national symbol

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fonn and casadh

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2 sections of Bean An Fhir Rual (Red-Haired Woman)

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reel

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simple duple meter dance that is the most common of Irish dance forms

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accordian

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concertina is the English version of this musical instrument in Ireland

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sean nos

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unaccompanied, typically nonpulsatile singing originally known as keening

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bard

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a person who was a combination poet, composer, and musician

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slide

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a faster tempo jig

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cante hondo

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most traditional category of "deep songs" of the Andalucian region

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how the soleo is performed

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danced by a woman and sung by a man

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opressed underclass from southern spain

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who are gypsies are where do they live?

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used as accompaniment for flamenco dances

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how did the guitar become Spain's national instrument?

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zaruzelas

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typical Spanish opera

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palmas

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handclapping that accompanies flamenco, and is a critical source of complicated rythyms

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golpe

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rapping one's fingers on the body of a guitar as a technique of flamenco

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rasugueado

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unfolding the fingers as one's wrist moves across the strings of a guitat

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estribillos

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binary form found in many Spanish folk songs is typically identified by its stanzas

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