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BYU Hum 202 Test 1
2nd half of terms
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Undergraduate 1
01/28/2009

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Colonnade
Definition
a row of columns
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Statues
Definition
sculptures in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to busts, and at least close to life-size, or larger
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Illumination
Definition
the use of light and shadow in art
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Woodcut
Definition
a work produced by cutting away parts of a wooded block, which is then inked and printed
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Engraving
Definition
process of incising lines on a copper plate, which is them printed to produce an impression
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Chiaroscuro
Definition
in painting, extreme contrasts between dark and light
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tenebrism
Definition
A heightened form of chiaroscuro, it creates the look of figures emerging from the dark
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still life
Definition
a painting of objects such as fruit, flowers, dishes, etc., arranged to form a pleasing composition
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genre scene
Definition
A type or category of art. In the visual arts, the depiction of scenes from everyday life.
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corporate portrait
Definition
also as group portrait. A painting of a group of people.
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presumption
Definition
act of thinking that something is true because it is very likely
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epic conventions
Definition
traditions used in writing epic poems
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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed verse often used in English epic and dramatic poetry. Its meter is iambic pentameter (consisiting of five groups of two syllables each, the second syllable stressed more than the first)
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blindness
Definition
the condition of lacking visual perception
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choral polyphony
Definition
music for a choir to perform, which involving several melodic lines or “voices,” which interweave into a single whole
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motet
Definition
Sixteenth-century composition: four- or five-voiced sacred work, generally based on a Latin text
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anthem
Definition
a musical composition written for choir (sometimes with solo voices added), the text of which is in English
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