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WGU C100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES 2024 NEWESTEXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
Eros - (correct answer) Passionate love favored by Greek poets
Aesthetic Experience - (correct answer) An experience of beauty that inspires a
feeling of pleasure, which is its own justification, and this experience is valued
independently of others.
Agape - (correct answer) Greek term for platonic love.
Age of Exploration - (correct answer) Time period between the early fifteenth to the
early seventeenth centuries when Europeans sailed around the globe and transferred
goods, food, plants, and people (in the form of slaves) transforming the countries they
reached.
Allegory - (correct answer) A work of art which represents some abstract quality or
idea, often religious or political, by means of symbolic representation.
Allegory of the Cave - (correct answer) Plato's allegory of prisoners in a cave who
mistake appearance for reality (the Forms) and wrongly believe the shadows they see
on the cave wall are real.
Amphitheater - (correct answer) An outdoor venue shaped as a circle or ellipse used
by the Romans for performances; the shape of the theater amplified sound naturally.
Ancient Greek Art - (correct answer) Artwork from Greece, circa 8,000-146 BCE.
Archaic Age - (correct answer) Followed the Dark Age, circa 800-479 BCE; saw rise
of important political structures and democracy.
Archetype - (correct answer) An emblematic mythic character, image, plot pattern,
symbol, or buried assumption shared across cultures.
Architecture - (correct answer) The science and art of designing buildings and other
structures and is concerned with the aesthetic effect of structures in their surrounding
environment.
Art Nouveau - (correct answer) Art movement of the late 19th century - early 20th
century that favored sinuous lines, curves, and organic motifs, such as plants and
flowers.
Atonality - (correct answer) Describes music that is written in a way that avoids
centering around a specific key.
, Balance - (correct answer) The achievement of putting into harmony different
compositional elements that are in dynamic tension with one another.
Baroque - (correct answer) Movement of the 17th and early 18th century in art,
architecture, and music known for its religious focus and its elaborate and extensive use
of ornamentation.
Beauty - (correct answer) Can be defined as those qualities that give pleasure to the
senses.
Blank Verse - (correct answer) Poetry written in a metered fashion, typically iambic
pentameter, but which does not rhyme.
Buddhism - (correct answer) Religion originated in India by Siddhartha Guatama,
the "Buddha" ("the enlightened one" in Sanskrit); Buddhists seek the path to
enlightenment through physical and spiritual discipline.
Canon - (correct answer) A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for
creating perfect proportionality in the human figure. In literature, art, and religion, an
agreed upon list of sanctioned works or laws. In music, a piece that employs a melody
with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given period of time.
Capitals - (correct answer) The top part of a column between the column and the
entablature.
Character - (correct answer) Term used to describe each of the persons being
depicted in a drama.
Chiaroscuro - (correct answer) The creation of the illusion of depth through
gradations of light and shade.
Chorus - (correct answer) In a Greek drama, a group of actors who comment on the
action and provide society's view of the events; also, a group of singers.
Chromaticism - (correct answer) The movement or displacement of notes by a half-
step, as opposed to the tradition of whole-step movement in previous periods.
Cinema - (correct answer) An artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a
vehicle for storytelling and other creative expressions.
Classical Humanism - (correct answer) The cultural movement of the Renaissance,
based on Greek and Roman classic literature, that emphasized the dignity, worth, and
rationality of humankind.
Classicism - (correct answer) Aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art,
architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
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