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| How does studying the portrayal of love over time enhance one's understanding of humanity. (2 answers) |
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1. The study of Love in all its forms (eros, agape, and platonic love) illustrates a distinction in types of love that has captured the attention of artists.
2. The conept of eros or romantic love has developed over time, and reflects changes in society's norms for marriage. |
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What is the difference between a myth and a monomyth? |
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| A monomyth is a myth that is shared between many cultures, while a myth is a story particular to a culture. |
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| How does the visual art and architecture of Greece and Rome differ? |
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| Much of the sculpture and architecture in Greece was focused on honoring deities. Rome valvued deities, but also used art to glorify the Roman Empire. |
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| What would have been a cultural exchange and diversity in the classical Period? |
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| The travelers along the silk Road brought Manichaeism, Daosim, and Buddhism to Europe |
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| How does humanism relate to individualism? |
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| Humanism emphasizes individual development towards an ideal. |
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| How does art from the Renaissance illustrate cultural exchange and diversity? (2 answers) |
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Renaissance artists such as the glassmakers in Italy received inspiration from glassware from the Muslim artisans.
Carved ivory from Africa was featured in the homes of European royalty during the renaissance. |
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| Which philosophical approach required direct observation and experimentation for proof? |
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| How does the Enlightenment focus on order and clarity affect Classical Music? |
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| Classical Music became more homophonic and lyrical. |
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| How did slave narratives sucha s athe interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano affect cultural exchange and diversity within the Enlightenment period? |
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| Slave narrative confirmed anti-abolitionist viewpoints of enslaved Africans. |
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| How does the Neoclassical Period influence our contemporary culture? (2 answers) |
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Classical music from the Neoclassical period continues to be performed today including a symbolic performance of Beethoven in front of the Brandenburg gate.
Contemporary political satire shows like the Daily Show reflect the use of political satire in the Neoclassical period. |
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| What was the common emphasis displayed by artists across a spectrum of the disciplines during the Romantic Era? |
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| Dramatic action and emotions appeared in various art forms from music to painting. |
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What is true about the excerpt from William Blake's "London"?
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow
and mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe |
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| City Dwellers in the poem display the negative impacts of industrialization and urbanization. |
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| How does Chopin's Nocturne Opus 27 Number 1 display characteristics of Romantic period music? |
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| The piece has drastic tempo changes and shifts in mood that evokes strong changes in emotion. |
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1. Napolean commissioned the painting as a piece of propaganda hiding the truth of his lack of compassion for the dying.
2. Exoticism is shown in the location and the costumes of the people. |
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| How did the people of the Romantic period participagte in Cultural Exchange? (2 answers) |
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1. They read literature which portrayed exotic cultures from the East, Middle East, and North Africa.
2. American Artists such as George Caitlin produced two major collections of paintings of Native Americans. |
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| How did the art world react to the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution? |
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| Social progressives created works of art that depicted the ill health and dangerous living conditions of the poor. |
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| How did Darwin's On the Orgin of Species affect the humanities? |
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| Darwin's theory of natural selection inspired the movement of literary Naturalism which aimed to show humans as the product of their environments and heredity. |
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| How do the 200 human figures sculpted in bronze on the Gates of Hell by Augueste Rodin reflect the themes of the Realist period? |
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| The human figures display a variety of human emotions |
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| What is a true statement about the theme of heroism? |
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| Contemporary culture continues to be fascinated by heroes including the epic hero and romantic hero. |
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| The Muses represent which classical period theme? |
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| What are 2 statements that are ture about music from the Classical Period? |
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1. Classical philosophers applied themes of balance to music discovering ratios responsible for harmonies.
2. Music from ancient Greece and Rome shares qualities fround in the Middle Eastern tradition of music. |
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| What is a true statement about the Roman Republic? |
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| The Roman Republic was a representative government with a separation of powers. |
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| How did humanism contribute to the Age of Exploration? |
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| Humanism emphasized reason and scientific thinking which helped to improve the design of ships and navigation for REnaissance explorers. |
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| How did the printing press affect cultural exhange within the Renaissance? |
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| The printing press allowed for maps, texts and musical scores to be printed and distributed facilitating cultural exchange |
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| How did the 35 volume Encyclopedie by Diderot and d'Alembert reflect the values of the Enlightenment? |
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| The large work facilitated the organization and preservation of human knowledge. |
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| What accounts for the popularity of nonfiction genres such as letters, travel narratives, essays during the Enlightenment? |
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| Non-Fiction allowed the reader to gain knowledge of the real-world experience of travelers and wrestle with philosophical ideas. |
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| What term represents the view that is the goal of civilized societies to convey enlightenment and civilization to the more primitive cultures? |
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| What are two critical differences between the philosophers of the Enlightenment period and the philosophers of the Romantic Period. |
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1. Application of empiricism and rationality to nature.
2. Importance of subjective experience. |
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| What was a popular American patriotic song that had its beginning in the Romantic period? |
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| What were some of the advances in science during the 19th Century that impacted artistic disciplines during the realist period? (2 answers) |
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1. the invention of photography
2. The airplane |
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| Name the Major themes for the Classical Period: |
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Definition
1. Balance
2. Truth/Reason
3.Democracy/Republic
4. Polytheism
5. Humanism |
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| Name the Major themes for the Renaissance Period: |
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1. Rebirth of Classicism
2. Humanism
3. Rationalism/Scientific Expansion
4. Expansion of the University System
5. Individualism/Self-fashioning
6. Reformation |
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Name the major themes of
Neoclassical & The Enlightenment Period: |
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1. Skepticism
2.Rationalism
3. Empiricism
4. Logic
5. Progress
6.Revolution
7.Order
8.Clarity
9.Deism
10. Classicism |
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| Name the Major themes for the Romantic Period: |
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1. Nationalism
2. Exoticism
3. Revolution
4. Heroism
5.Passion
6. Individualism, Imagination & Genius
7. Naturalism
8. Mysticism and the Occult |
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| Name the major themes for the Realist Period: |
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1. Darwinism
2. Industrialization
3. Individualism
4. Age of Doubt |
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| Greatest Good for the greatest number of people |
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Leonardi De Vinci's Painting
The Last Supper |
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| Linear Perspective to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface |
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| It is longer and incorporated Choral movements |
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| Darwin's writings & theories of evolution -Human existence |
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| Humans only existed for 6000 years |
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| The Theme of Renaissance Humanism - Contempory Life |
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| High value is placed on Human rights, education, and promoting social rights. |
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| What is an aesthic experience? |
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| A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself |
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What were two themes of the "DollHouse"
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1. Individual rejection of social convention
2. the rights of women |
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| Secular songs married the song of music to written words. |
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| Passionate Love favored by Greek Poets |
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| How did philosopher Rousseau's concept of "noble savage" set the stage for Enlightenment debates of teh corruption & evils of slavery? |
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| He argued that slavery was the most destructive evil of mankind & should be immediatedly ended throughout the world. |
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| How did the devolpment of democracy impact the classical period? |
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| the democratic republic emerged as an alternative to tyrannical forms of government. |
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| How did the writings of romatic poets & novelists impact society during the romantic period? |
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| They demonstrated the importance of subjects experience and emotion. |
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| How does Leo Tolstoy's work War & Peace represent realist Themes? |
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| It emphasizes individual characters facing true-to-life situations. |
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| How does the contemporary idea of progress relate to the Enlightenment idea of progress? |
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| Contemporary society places great emphasis on an individual's education, which parallels the Enlightenment view that the pursuit of knowledge was a form of moral progress. |
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| Non-sexual love emphasized by the Ancient Greeks |
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| What does Classicism refer to as used in the term neoclassicism? |
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| Promoting a Roman style checks and balances government. |
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| What is the significance of the Kouros in terms of cultural exchange during the classical period? |
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| It is a Greek refinement of the Egyptian figural sculpture, was also used by wealthy Greeks. |
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| What was the effect of rationalism during the Renaissance? |
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| Rationalism supplied a new perspective for people to think about science & nature instead of relying on superstitious or religious explanations for natural phenomena. |
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| What political ideology arose in the romantic period? |
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| What two beliefs are characteristic of the Renaissance? |
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Scientific inquiry will increase human knowlege of the world.
Classical literary & Philosophical works provide resources for learning and living. |
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| Why is Sappho's classical poem "A lament for Adonis" considered lyrical poetry? |
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| It expresses feelings of romantic love |
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The study of Humanities seeks to understand what humans believe and why.
refers to humans and their culture. |
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| During the classical period, the Greeks borrowed what from the Phoenicians? |
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| a life-like stance in which the figure's weight rest on one leg. |
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| a belief in multiple gods |
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| What were three pieces to Aristotle's system of argument? |
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| ethos, pathos, and logos. |
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| Plato's Allegory of the Cave theory: |
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| Most men live in ignorance and can only come to see the truth in the world around them through difficult and often painful reflection. |
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| Plays included what 3 types: |
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1. tragedy
2. Comedy
3. tragicomedy |
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| What was the Golden Mean? |
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| Aristotle's term for the desirable middle between two extremes, between excess and inadequacy. |
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| Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and Science |
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| What was the Spanish "Golden Age" |
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| resulted from Spain's acquistition of gold and silver from the Americas. |
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| What is a Renaissance Man? |
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| a person who has broad knowledge and versatile talents spanning from many intellectual and artistic disciplines. |
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| What was Martin Luther's ninety five Theses known for? |
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| Challenged the doctrine of the catholic church. Martin Luther was later excommunicated from the Catholic Church and he started the Luthern church. |
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| The Prince, by Machiavelli defended the principle that: |
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| the ends justify the means |
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| What was forbidden to act during Shakespeare's time? |
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| Shakespearean sonnet was divided into ______ quatrains and a rhyming couplet. |
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| A sonnet contained how many lines? |
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| What were two innovations in Renaissance Art that were widespread: |
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1. Use of oil painting as a medium
2. development of mathematical or linear perspective in painting. |
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| The process of fashioning one's individual sense of self and public persona according to a set of socially acceptable standards. |
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| The creation of the illusion of depth through gradations of light and shade |
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| What is aerial perspective? |
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| The creation of the illusion of distance by reducing color saturation, value contrast, and detail in order to imply the natural haziness between a viewer and distant objects. |
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| That which separates one unique person from another, as well as the social and philosophical viewpoint that celebrates that difference. |
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| The belief that God created the natural laws that govern nature but does not directly intervene or interfere in any way |
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| What were three prominent philosophical movements during the Enlightenment period: |
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1. rationalism
2. empiricism
3. skepticism |
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| Who is famous for saying " I think therefore I am" |
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| Rene Descartes, a french philosopher |
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| Which philosopher focused on duty-driven ethics |
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| Who was repsonisble for creating the Encyclopedia? |
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| What was Alexander Pope's "The rape of the Lock" about? |
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Pokes fun at the upper class's preoccupation with appearance rather than such virtues as humor and grace
is a mock-epic poem, where a card game amongst the wealthy is related to a battle and a woman values her vanity over good humor. |
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| In Voltaire's Candide, Candide questions _____and struggles with __________ |
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questions optimism
and struggles with keeping his view of humanity positive |
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| Name at least 3 Romantic Period authors: |
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1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. John Keats
5. Lord Byron
6. William Blake |
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| Who is considered to be the Father of American Literature? |
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Definition
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| Who wrote the novel "Little Women"? |
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| Mary Shelly, gothic author, was famous for what work? |
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| Who wrote the legend of Sleepy Hollow? |
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| What three things did Romantic artists stress? |
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1. passion
2. emotion
3. exotic settings with dramatic action |
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| Name 3 Romantic Composers: |
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1. Ludwig Van Beethoven
2. Johannes Brahms
3. Hector Berlioz
4. Franz Schubert
5. Frederic Chopin
6. Richard Wagner |
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| What is transcendentalism? |
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| Philosophical movement during the Romantic era tht emphasized feeling over reason and the role of the individual finding an intuitive relation to the universe through solitude amid nature. |
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| A sterotypical character of a Romantic novel: an exceptional and figted loner, perhaps misunderstood, who was driven to follow personal passion rather than traditional societal expectations. |
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| What was the type of painting called that was founded on inspiration from the Japanese? |
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| What was John Stuart Mill known for? |
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| believes in the rights of the individual as long as it does not interfere with happiness and welfare of the society as a whole. |
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| Who wrote The adventures of Huckeberry Finn? |
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| Composer John Philip Sousa spearheaded the music style that came to be known as ______ |
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| Art movement of teh late 19th Century that emplasized simplified composition and the effect of light and color to capture a painter's visual impression |
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