WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities Prep Exam And Already Passed Answers.
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Kouros - 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 - Answer Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science.
Doric order - Answer The simplest of the classical Greek architectural styles, fea...
WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities
Prep Exam And Already Passed
Answers.
Kouros - 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 - Answer Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science.
Doric order - Answer The simplest of the classical Greek architectural styles, featuring unadorned
columns with no base.
Post and lintel - Answer Classical Greek architectural design that features two upright posts supporting
a crossbeam called a lintel.
Frieze - Answer A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, usually on a wall near the
ceiling.
Entablature - Answer The horizontal layers of material of a building that are supported by columns or
walls.
Pediment - Answer The triangular upper part of the front of a building in the classical style.
Capital - Answer The top part of a column between the shaft of the column and the entablature.
Catharsis - Answer The purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; one of
Aristotle's concepts.
Hubris - Answer Greek word for excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
, Epic - 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 - Answer A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for creating perfect
proportionality in the human figure.
Diction - Answer Wordchoice; can be classified as formal or informal, or denotative or connotative.
Hellenic - Answer A synonym for Greek.
Skepticism - 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 - 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 - Answer Plato's concept that there are ideal essences (the Forms) of objects or things.
Philosopher King - Answer A hypothetical ruler, or Guardian, of Plato's ideal city state.
Golden Mean - Answer Aristotle's term for the desirable middle between two extremes, between
excess and inadequacy.
Lyre - Answer A string instrument like a U shaped harp known for its use by the classical Greeks.
Humanism - Answer The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all human cultures.
Polytheism - Answer The belief in multiple gods; religion based on more than one god.
Classicism - Answer Aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art, architecture, and literature of
ancient Greece and Rome.
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