humanities 13 Flashcards
Which story deals with a 20-year search for home?
The Odyssey
Homer’s epic concerns the hero Odysseus’ attmpt to return home after having helped with the Battle of Troy. The voyage, which was delayed by storm, bad luck, and imprisonment, took 20 years.
What was the story of Rip Van Winkle?
“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution.
The moral of “Rip Van Winkle” is that life passes by with or without a person and that change is inevitable. The story also shows that a person will pay dearly when they try to avoid change; in many ways, Irving is asking his readers to be active participants in their own lives and enjoy each moment.
What was the Wizard of Oz?
written by L. Frank Baum
The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The book is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated
The predominant theme of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is self-sufficiency. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion all seek external magic to give them qualities they already possess but fail to recognize.
What was Don Quixote?
Novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled “the first modern novel” and is sometimes considered the best literary work ever written.
The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.
What was the Iliad?
Homer’s epic poem
The Iliad is an epic poem, written by Homer, that covers the quarrels and fighting near the end of the Trojan War. The story opens nine years into the war, which basically started because Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, a Greek and brother of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae.
Love and friendship, fate and free will, and honor are the main themes of Homer’s The Iliad. All three themes follow Achilles and the other main characters of the epic poem. We see how Achilles’ friendship with Patroclus and his hunger for honor guides much of the epic, which lead to both his and Hector’s demises.
Which literary device makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things and often uses words “like” and “as”?
Simile Strong as an ox. Fit as a fiddle. Bright as the sun. Sweating like a pig. White as a sheet. His heart was as cold as ice. Sleeping like a log. Fast as lightning.
Which literary device is the projection of characteristics that normally belong only to humans onto inanimate objects, animals, deities, or forces of nature.
personification Justice is blind. Her heart skipped a beat. The sun smiled down on them. The stars winked. The party died down. The city never sleeps.
which literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can also be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun.
apostrophe Apostrophe Examples
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.
O holy night! …
Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!
Welcome, O life!
Which literary device is used in this passage:
My love is like to ice, and I to fire.
Simile
Which literary device is used in this passage: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert - That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art
Personification
a literary device that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.
What literary device is used in this passage:
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face.
apostrophe
Which time period is described below
Began around 1600 with the invention of opera and ended around 1750 with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Antonio Vivaldi was a major composer of the time.
Baroque period
Which period is described below
Began with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach and ended in the 1820’s. Franz Haydn was a major composer of this time.
The Classical period
Nineteenth century opera was dominated by which two composers?
Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi
Moderator, vivave, andante, and presto are all examples of what?
Tempos
Musical notes are arranged in meter, or a series of beats. When an unexpected accent occurs (either between beats or on a weak beat), it is called…
Syncopatio
What type of music is considered to be America’s only original contribution to music?
jazz
What indicates the scale a piece of music is built on, and is located at the beginning of a piece of music, just after the time signature.
a key signature
What denotes the meter of a piece of music?
Time signature
How a tune gets from one pitch to the next is called?
melodic motion
What shows the correct order of the periods of Western music history?
Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th century.
What refers to a type of a capella liturgical music common in the medieval period?
Gregorian
