HUM
122 Introduction to Humanities
Review for
Exams III and IV
Literature (Exam III)
Utilitarian literature
Creative literature
Aesthetic subtext of literature: internal experience
Forms of poetry
Elizabethan
(Shakespearean) sonnet
Quatrain
Couplet
Haiku
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Blank verse
Free verse
General familiarity with examples of poetry covered in class
Theatre (Exam III)
The aesthetic subtext of theatre (and film)
Theatron
Tragedy
Comedy
Melodrama
Poetics (Aristotle)
Catharsis
Tragic Hero
Tragic Flaw
Comic Timing
Exposition
Complication
Denouement
Dionysus / Dionysian myth
Mise-en-Scene
Organic Theory
Arena Theatre
Thrust Theatre
Proscenium Theatre
“Fourth Wall”
Stage directions
Mime as non-verbal / verbal
The use of the mask
Theatre-as-"hot"
Film (Exam III)
Plasticity
Frame
Editing
Persistence of Vision
Narrative Style
Documentary Style
Absolute Style
Cut
Jump Cut
Form Cut
Cutting Within the Frame
Crosscutting
Cinema Veritee
Montage
Horror film genre
Science fiction film genre
Film-as-"cold"
**Be familiar with examples shown in class**
Dance (Exam IV)
Sympathetic Movement/Magic
The aesthetic subtext of dance
Ballet
Modern
Mime
The Five Basic Positions
Pointe
Ballet as “Horizontal” (Basse) and “Vertical"
(Haute)
Extension
Louis XIV
Maria Taglioni
Vaslav Nijinsky
Isadora Duncan
Martha Graham
Francois Delsarte
Music (Exam IV)
The aesthetic subtext of all music
Chant (monophonic, a capella, spatial)
Renaissance (dance forms)
Baroque (heavy, ornate, layered): e.g., Bach, Pachelbel
(Northern), Vivaldi (Southern)
Classical (formal precision): e.g., Haydn, Mozart
Romantic (“felt more than formed”): e.g., Beethoven
Impressionist ("musical haiku"): e.g., Debussy
20th Century Composers: e.g., Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg
(dissonant), Cage (aleatory, atonal)
Tone:
Octave
Coda
Interval
Half Step
Chromatic Scale
Major/Minor Scales
Open Forms (Canon/Fugue)
Closed Forms (Rondo, Sonata Form)
American Jazz
Opera Seria (tragic)
Opera Comique (spoken dialogue)
Opera Buffa (comic)
Operetta (light, popular themes)
Libretto
Aria
Basic background: Madama Butterfly
Essay Question Pool
Exam III questions:
1. “Tragedy is emotional, comedy is intellectual.” Explain the meaning of this statement in terms of how these two forms address us psychologically.
2. According to Aristotle's Poetics, the theatrical form of tragedy is beneficial to us as viewers. How is this so?
3. Explain the use of editing devices in any two of the film excerpts that we watched in class. Provide details of the settings, the devices employed, and their psychological or emotional effects.
4. Compare and contrast the arts of theatre and film. What are the advantages and disadvantages of one over the other, for both audience and performer? What can one do that the other cannot? Explain your responses in paragraph form, do not simply list them
Exam IV questions:
1. Based on our discussions concerning the ritual foundations of dance, how is dance an impulse that exists naturally within all of us as human beings? In the video we watched in class, what does it mean to say that dance is "power?"
2. In both historical and stylistic terms, describe the development of a) ballet and b) modern dance.
3. Explain the nature of open and closed musical forms and give an example of each. How did each of these forms reflect its respective historical context? How does our contemporary music reflect one or both of these traditions?
4. Explain the diverse social and cultural conditions that served to set up New Orleans as the "birthplace" of American jazz. Within this context, describe the basic musical elements of African-American origin that make American jazz what it is.