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Which of the following is NOT an architectural system? |
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Several arches placed side by side form an: |
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The ability of a material to withstand bending is known as ____ Strength |
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Designers of Gothic Cathedrals sought to convey a feeling of fortress like strength. |
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The supportive center of an arch is called a... |
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Medieval structures employed a system of which of the following in order to keep vertical walls from bucking outward? |
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In creating a structure, an architects 1st concern is with aesthetics. |
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The parthenon exemplifies post and ____ construction |
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The transition from the shaft to the column to the architrave is supplied by a ____ |
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Log cabins are examples of bearing-wall construction. |
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This term describes vertical grooves cut into a column. |
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Which of the following is a structural system in which an overhanging beam or floor is supported at one end? |
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The ability to withstand crushing is called ____ strength |
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Concrete was invented in the 20th century. |
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Which is the structural system that defines space by transferring stress outwards towards it's legs? |
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Which of the following is utilized in order to transfer weight and stress to permit squared space beneath a dome? |
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The characteristics of tone that allows us to distinguish pitches from various musical instruments is tone color. |
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The accenting of normally unaccenting beats is called syncopation. |
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The term motif refers to harmonies that sound stable in their arrangement. |
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The category of very high-range human voice is known as coloatura soprano. |
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The term dissonant means very soft |
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The term consonant, related to the theme and melody, means a short melodic or rhythmic idea |
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In music, a single movement introduction played apart |
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Which is a property of rhythm> |
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The arrangement of pitches in an octave |
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A musical style desribed as stressing tone color, fluidity, and atmosphere |
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In musical expression, this term means becoming louder. |
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The degree of loudness or softness in music |
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Another word for polyphony is counterpoint |
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Harmonies that sound tense and unstable in their arrangement? |
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Kyrie, credo, gloria, sanctus, and agnus dei are the 5 parts of the type of musical composition known as the |
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what are the properties of musical texture? |
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polyphony, monophony, homophony |
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the difference between any 2 pitches is an interval |
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the text of an opera, set to music, is known as the |
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symbols that denote silences in music are called |
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Iambic, trochaic, and anapestic are types of metric lines. |
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According to the text, point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. |
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The structure of a work of literature |
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The atmosphere of a story may also be called it's |
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The kind of poetry originally meant to be sung w a lyre if called ____ poetry |
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A novel whose subject matter comprises observations of the customs, values, and manners of a complex society? |
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A novel whose subject matter comprises the adventure of a rogue |
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A novel whose subject matter comprises an atmosphere of mystery and terror |
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The type and number of rhythmic unites in a line is called |
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A prose narrative of considerable length that has a plot that unfolds from the actions, speech, and thoughts of the character is a ____ |
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In poetry, the most common sound structure: |
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Epistolary narrative point of view is told through the use of _____ written by the characters |
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The three major types of poetry are narrative, dramatic, and novel |
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Stories or observations about moments in a biography |
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the overriding idea by which the elements of the story is shaped |
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the major form of dramatic poetry is the dramatic.... |
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two types of essays: ____ and _____ |
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A work created from the authors imagination rather than taken from fact: |
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essays can be either ___ or ____ |
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Figures of speech by which words recieve new implications: |
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The essence of dramatic communication: |
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discovery is the revelation of information about character's personalities, feelings and relationships. |
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During the performance of a play, the attention of the audience is a constant factor |
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In his poetics, aristotle described comedy. |
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Plot developes as a sequence of tests caused by the villian in which the hero must triumph: |
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The central personage of the play |
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The part of the play in which the playwright gives the audience background information |
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The word theater comes from the word theatron, which means A place for acting |
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the purpose of _____ is to construct a setting that contributes to the production's ends. |
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A structure that ascends to a climax and then falls to a conclusion: |
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Tragicomedy includes both tragic and comic scenes |
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the main channel of communication between the playwright and the audience |
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Helps prepare the audience for actions and events to follow in a play |
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drama comprises much of what we see in modern movies and TV |
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the _____ of a play is like it's skeleton. |
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A theatrical situation such as a peasant jumping to the upper class: |
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the part of the play's structure in which the playwright resolves the issues of the play. |
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the dynamics in the play rise in a straight line to the conclusion |
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What is recorded by the camera over a period of time |
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early filmmakers had to move the camera in order to include this in their films |
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quality of the film that enables it to be cut etc |
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this film uses the techniques of theater: |
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______ film attempts to record actuality using primarily a sociological or journalistic approach |
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A motion picture only seems to move, but does not |
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basic picture unit of film: |
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dissolve refers to what is recorded by the camera over a period of time |
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the process of joining shots together during editing |
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according to legend, ____ discovered the optimal phenomenon known as "persistance of vision" |
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Most viewers accept without hesitation the conventions of customs used in a cinema |
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The techinique of cutting within the frame allows the filmmakers to avoid ____ |
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Absolute film follows the rules of literary construction |
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film cutting technique in which images change rapidly to illustrate the passage of time. |
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some filmmakers believe that camera technique is best when it's not noticeable |
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type of shot that creates the interrealtionship of details in cinema: |
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Films orginated as a means of recording and portraying |
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form cut is the technique that moves from one image to a similar one |
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A technique that breaks the continuity of time: |
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technique of having actors look directly into the camera and play to the audience |
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modern cinema contains ____ frames per foot of film at 24 frames per second |
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according to the text, color is irrelevant to sculpture |
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the mold for an actual sculpture is called a positive |
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freestanding sculpture works are called what? |
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the relationship of shapes is called: |
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Sculpture designed to be seen from only one side is: |
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which of the following is a term that denotes a carved work of sculpture? |
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built sculptures uses a process of addition, known as: |
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____ composition directs the eye back into the work |
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sculptural works hat are modeled use the process of manipulation |
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Closed composition directs the eye outside of the framework of the work |
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culpture works that are transitory are called ephemeral |
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This concept describes the joining of parts or movements from one part to another in an artwork |
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the personality of a work of art describes the artists: |
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____ critism looks soley at the artwork |
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Who developed the aproach to art evaluation that asks "what is the artist trying to say?" |
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According to the text, the question 'what is it" evokes a ___ response |
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The four primary functions of the arts accoriding to the text include: |
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artifact, therapy, enjoyment, political and social commentary |
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the nature of how art historians see art is different today than it was in the past |
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which of the following is not traditionally associated with the humanities? |
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according to the text, which of the following is the realm of activities such as art, craft, and science? |
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according to the text, the arts act as social and poltical commentary only when no longr acting as a vehicle for enjoyment |
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four basic concerns of art: |
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fine and applied arts, sybols, creativity, aesthetic communication |
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a detailed process of analysis to gain understanding and appreciation |
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the difference between fine and applied art lies in the fine arts being prized for their purely aesthetic qualities |
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Questioning how something is put together evokes this kind of response: |
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The poet archibald macleish is quoted as saying "without arts how can the university teach the ____" |
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contextual critism looks beyond the work of art |
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This is defined as a tangible emblem of something abstract |
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The study of the nature of beauty and art: |
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A work exemplifying art as revealing metaphysical or spiritual truths |
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when part of a religious ceremony, Music can function as art, artifact, and ritual. |
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which of the following is the term for sculpture that employs such materials as wire or neon tubing? |
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sculptural works that are modeled utilize which of the following processes? |
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creating a piece of ____ sculpture utilizes the process of substitution |
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unlike pictures, sculptures have literal mass |
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the term for the activity or sense of movement in a sculptural work |
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holes that appear in sculpture are called ____ space |
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Woodcut and wood engravings are examples of which of the following? |
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the spectrum notation of color is called it's value |
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the term for composite, or overall use of color in visual art: |
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the term meaning light and shade or modeling |
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the ordered recurrence of elements in a composition is called rhythm. |
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term for hues that exist opposite each other on the color wheel |
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a color edge is a manifestation of the element of composition known as |
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the term ____ means the logic of repetition |
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placing objects next to one another is called juxtaposition |
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the term ____ means the degree or purity of a hue. |
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which of the following is NOT a purpose for which artists utilize line? |
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what is responsible for the fact that watercolors produce a delicacy that cannot be produced by other media? |
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which of the following is one of the 3 characteristics of line? |
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one can grey a hue by using it's compliment |
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