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WGU C100 Introduction To Humanities exam with complete solutions 2024_2025
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WGU C100 Introduction To Humanitiesexam with complete solutions 2024/2025
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.
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