Quiz Questions: Exam 2
Identify a true statement about episodic narratives.
In such narratives, the adventures sometimes are completely disconnected from one another.
Identify a true statement about soliloquy in a play.
In the best of soliloquies, the character does not speak to the audience.
Which of the following is true of Herman Melville's Moby Dick?
It achieves unity by focusing on Ahab's quest.
Identify a true statement about the A in the overall structure of a sonata form:
It is the exposition with a statement of the main theme in the tonic key of the composition.
Identify a feature of the lyric.
It reveals limited but deep feeling about someone or something.
_____________ is usually defined as a group of notes, played one after another, having a perceivable shape, or having a perceivable beginning, middle, and end.
Melody
Which one of the following statements are the Formalists of music most likely to agree with?
Music is by its very nature essentially powerless to express anything at all.
Which of the following is true of music?
Music is capable of clarifying and revealing the feelings of individuals.
Identify a true statement about archetypal drama.
One's search for personal identity can serve as a primary archetypal structure for drama.
Which of the following is true of Aristotle's thoughts on tragedies?
Plot is much more the center of interest than character.
Which of the following relates to counterpoint in music?
Powerful music effects obtained by staggering the melodic lines
Identify a true statement about costumes in Greek plays.
Some of the costumes in Aristophanes' plays may have been torn or ragged.
What does archetypal drama aim at?
Symbolic or mythic interpretations of experience
Which of the following buildings is more centered in its site when compared to the others?
The Parthenon, Athens
Identify a true statement about rondo:
The rondo may be slow or may be played with blazing speed.
Identify a true statement about Mont-Saint-Michel.
The site of Mont-Saint-Michel can be seen from great distances.
The villanelle is one of the most difficult forms for English-language poets to use because ________.
there must be five three-line stanzas and one final four-line stanza
A sound with one definite frequency or a sound dominated by one definite frequency is a
tone
Identify a true statement about literature.
A work of literature is a construction of separable elements.
Identify a true statement about Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona:
Antonio Gaudi developed its structures based on organic forms of nature.
Identify a true statement about the usage of inner and outer space by architects:
Architects typically shelter inner space from outer space so that the inner space can be used for practical purposes.
Identify a feature of Anton Chekhov's The Swan Song.
Chekhov enlarges the characters' sense of themselves while praising the nature of drama.
Identify a true statement about Anton Chekhov's short story Vanka.
Chekhov permits the boy Vanka to imagine a story of his own.
Identify a difference between dialogue and soliloquy.
Dialogue moves the action forward by telling people about the importance of the situations in which the actors speak.
__________ refers to the loudness or softness of music.
Dynamics
_______ architecture accentuates the natural symbolism of nature's security and mystery more than any other art.
Earth-rooted
Chords are particularly useful for establishing
cadences
The primary dramatic interchanges in a play are achieved by
dialogue
A narrative that describes one of the oldest kinds of literature, embodied by epics such as Homer's Odyssey, is a(n) __________.
episodic narrative
The __________ is a specialized structure of a counterpoint and was developed in the 17th and 18th centuries.
fugue
A professor of architecture visits a museum for the first time. He notices that the architecture of the building reveals that the building has definitely been constructed to serve as a museum. The scenario reveals that the building has met the ______ requirements of architecture.
functional
An accurate statement about Rockefeller Center is that _______.
its lower sections are blocked out by the surrounding buildings
Modern drama tends to avoid traditional tragic structures because ________.
modern concepts of morality, sin, and fate have transformed
Bruegel's famous painting of Daedalus and his son Icarus, which is described in W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," was based on the myth about the father-son duo that became a metaphor for _______.
overreaching
What was the technique used in the construction of the Parthenon in Athens?
post and lintel
According to the author of the text, Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum does not comply with the _________ requirements of architecture.
spatial
A(n) ________ is a further use of a metaphor.
symbol
The fact that buildings must stand and withstand emphasizes the ______ requirements of architecture.
technical
A characteristic of literature is that ______.
the theme of a literary work usually involves a structural decision
An accurate statement about Romeo and Juliet is that ________.
the youth and innocence of the main characters add to their remarkable appeal
