C100 WGU Objective Assessment Vocab
Humanities Correct Answer: seeks to understand what humans believe and why.
Themes Correct Answer: unifying
... [Show More] ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary or artistic work.
Individualism Correct Answer: separates one unique person from another, as well as the social and philosophical viewpoint that celebrates that difference.
Revolution Correct Answer: A fundamental, dramatic shift in organizational structure that occurs over a short period of time.
Classicism Correct Answer: Aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome
Eros Correct Answer: Greek term for erotic love or lust.
Agape Correct Answer: Greek term for platonic love
Archetype Correct Answer: An emblematic myth character, image, plot pattern, symbol, or buried assumption shared across cultures.
Humanism Correct Answer: The study of creative and intellectual contributions of all human cultures.
Myths Correct Answer: Traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain some natural phenomenon the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites.
Beauty Correct Answer: Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses.
Archetypes Correct Answer: Emblematic mythic characters, images, plot patterns, symbols, or buried assumptions shared across cultures.
Aesthetic experience Correct Answer: An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling of pleasure which is its own justification.
Music Correct Answer: The art of organizing sound, usually those sounds created y musical instruments or the human voice
Cinema Correct Answer: An artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for story telling an other creative expression.
Visual Arts Correct Answer: Art forms that entail creation of primarily visual works, which can be two or three dimensional.
Literature Correct Answer: Art form of the written word. It refers to an individual literary work or collectively to the creative writing of a people, nation, or culture.
Theater Correct Answer: A branch of the performing arts in which actors perform a drama or musical before a live audience.
Dance Correct Answer: An art form involving a sequence of rhythmic movements or steps performed to music.
Architecture Correct Answer: The science and art of designing buildings and other structures.
Philosophy Correct Answer: The systematic investigation of fundamental questions concerning such matters as existence, reality, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and justice.
Humanism Correct Answer: The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all human cultures.
Balance Correct Answer: The achievement of putting into harmony different elements that are in dynamic tension with one another.
Truth Correct Answer: The accurate and genuine reality of the world; that which is indisputably factual.
Reason Correct Answer: The thought and formation of judgments based on a logical process.
Democracy Correct Answer: Government directly ruled by the people, a form developed by the Greeks.
Republic Correct Answer: Government where supreme power rests indirectly in the body of citizens entitled to vote but is directly exercised by representatives.
Polytheism Correct Answer: The belief in multiple gods; religion based on more than one god.
Greek Philosophers Correct Answer: Ancient philosophers from Greece, or who spoke and/or studied Greek, that greatly advanced scientific knowledge without appealing to mythology.
Mythologies Correct Answer: The body of myths belonging to a culture; the study of myths.
Socratic Method Correct Answer: Analytical method of reasoning developed by Greek philosopher Socrates that asks a progression of questions in pursuit of the truth.
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.
Lyric Poetry Correct Answer: Poems that use rhyme scheme as a cohesive element and that are often set to music; lyric poems generally express feelings rather than relay political or historical events.
Truth Correct Answer: The accurate and genuine reality of the world; that which is indisputably factual.
Foreshadowing Correct Answer: The deliberate introduction of information (verbally, visually or otherwise) suggesting an event that will take place later in the story.
Tragic Irony Correct Answer: When the audience and a select few characters know the outcome of events before the main characters.
Reversal (of Fortune) Correct Answer: Moment in a tragedy when the main character's situation dramatically shifts to the contrary (as when a rich man becomes poor or a king loses his kingdom).
Double Entendre Correct Answer: When a word or phrase can be understood two ways.
Discovery Correct Answer: Moment when the main character becomes aware of an essential truth about himself or his situation; also called the recognition.
Chorus Correct Answer: In Greek drama, a group of actors who comment on the action and provide society's view of the events; also, a group of singers.
Tragedy Correct Answer: A drama with a unpleasant ending, generally involving the downfall of a flawed protagonist, which often involves catharsis.
Tragicomedy Correct Answer: Drama that mixes the conventions of tragedy and comedy, generally concluding with a happy ending.
Satyr Plays Correct Answer: A comedic genre of ancient Greek drama in which satyrs, creatures that combined attributes of men and beasts, formed the chorus and contrasted with the main characters with their ribald antics; satyr plays depicted the grittier aspects of society, such as drunkenness and sexuality, and offered relief after the tragedies were performed at festivals of Dionysus.
Ancient Greek Art Correct Answer: Artwork from Greece, circa 8,000-146 BCE
Roman Art Correct Answer: Artwork produced by Roman civilization, circa 500 BC-476 CE
Capital Correct Answer: The top part of a column between the column and the Entablature.
Entablature Correct Answer: The horizontal layers of material of a building that are supported by columns or walls.
Friezes Correct Answer: A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, usually on a wall near the ceiling.
Pediments Correct Answer: The triangular upper part of the front of a building in the classical style.
Pantheon Correct Answer: A general term referring to a set of all the deities belonging to a certain polytheistic religion. Pantheon, capital P, refers to a temple dedicated to all the Roman gods.
Lyre Correct Answer: A string instrument like a U-shaped harp known for its use by the classical Greeks. [Show Less]