WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities questions and answers
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WGU C100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES
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WGU C100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES
Kouros - correct answer Type of statue featuring life sized male nudes in a stance in which the left foot is placed in front of the right.
Muses - correct answer Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science.
Doric order - correct answer The simplest of the classical Greek archite...
WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities questions and answers
Kouros - correct answer Type of statue featuring life sized male nudes in a stance in which the left foot is placed in front of the right.
Muses - correct answer Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science.
Doric order - correct answer The simplest of the classical Greek architectural styles, featuring unadorned columns with no base.
Post and lintel - correct answer Classical Greek architectural design that features two upright posts supporting a crossbeam called a lintel.
Frieze - correct answer A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, usually on a wall near the ceiling.
Entablature - correct answer The horizontal layers of material of a building that are supported by columns or walls.
Pediment - correct answer The triangular upper part of the front of a building in the classical style.
Capital - correct answer The top part of a column between the shaft of the column and the entablature.
Catharsis - correct answer The purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; one of Aristotle's concepts. Hubris - correct answer Greek word for excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
Epic - correct answer A long poem recounting in elevated style the deeds of a legendary hero; any narrative work (novel, drama, film) dealing with epic themes.
Canon - correct answer A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for creating perfect proportionality in the human figure.
Diction - correct answer Wordchoice; can be classified as formal or informal, or denotative or connotative.
Hellenic - correct answer A synonym for Greek.
Skepticism - correct answer A philosophy that maintains that there can be no certainty in human knowledge and that mankind should continually be involved with finding the truth.
Allegory of the Cave - correct answer Plato's extended metaphor in The Republic that contrasts the way in which most humans perceive reality and Plato's idea of the true form of reality.
The Forms - correct answer Plato's concept that there are ideal essences (the Forms) of objects or things.
Philosopher King - correct answer A hypothetical ruler, or Guardian, of Plato's ideal city state.
Golden Mean - correct answer Aristotle's term for the desirable middle between two extremes, between excess and inadequacy.
Lyre - correct answer A string instrument like a U shaped harp known for its use by the classical Greeks.
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