WGU C100 Introduction to Humanities Final Exam Test

Kouros - Type of statue featuring life sized male nudes in a stance in which the left foot is placed in front of the right. Muses - Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science. Doric order - The simplest of the classical Greek architectural styles, featuring unadorned columns with no base. Post and lintel - Classical Greek architectural design that features two upright posts supporting a crossbeam called a lintel. Frieze - A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, usually on a wall near the ceiling. Entablature - The horizontal layers of material of a building that are supported by columns or walls. Pediment - The triangular upper part of the front of a building in the classical style. Capital - The top part of a column between the shaft of the column and the entablature. Catharsis - The purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; one of Aristotle's concepts. Hubris - Greek word for excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods). Epic - A long poem recounting in elevated style the deeds of a legendary hero; any narrative work (novel, drama, film) dealing with epic themes. Canon - A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for creating perfect proportionality in the human figure. Diction - Wordchoice; can be classified as formal or informal, or denotative or connotative. Hellenic - A synonym for Greek. Skepticism - 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 - 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.