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| The pleasure that beauty inspires in us. |
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| In the humanities a given art form , literature, visual art, etc. - as well as a field of academic study e.g. literary theory or history of dance. |
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| A movement begun in the early Renaissance that extolled and studied the creative and intellectual legacies of Greece and Rome. The study of contributions from all cultures. |
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| Once limited to the best products of the best minds narrowly defined as Greek or Roman but later expanded to include Western European achievements and more recently creative expressions of men and women around the world. |
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| Derived from the Greek god of light and truth. Used to describe something or someone that is orderly and rational. |
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| the faculty of rational and logical analysis; looking at objects and then drawing conclusions about the subject based on evidence; the opposite of jumping to hasty conclusions based on purely emotional response. |
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| Derived from the Greek god of wine and vegetation used to describe spontaneity as well as a lack of order and structure, signifying the passionate and creative (often impulsive) aspects of art, society or an individual. |
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| Quality of identifying with another (an actual person or character in a book, film, or play) becoming in sense, that person and being involved in his or her problems. |
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| A critical thinker whose use of language is characteristically colorful often playful, filled with metaphors that suggest a greater interest in the general than in just the particular. |
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| The non-critical person whose language reflects a concern for the immediate moment especially as what is happening or being viewed relates to the self. |
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| Often mistaken for critical thinking, it is justifying something we have done that our conscience may disapprove of, or explaining away something others do or say that would otherwise damage our ego. |
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| a model (e.g. the hero, the circle, the journey) that, through mythology, becomes part of our subconscious and an addition to the way we organize our thinking about ourselves, human beings in general and the nature of the universe. |
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| Jungs phrase for the universality of many myths and archetypes among cultures, some of which could not possibly have had any contact with each other. |
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| In Hindu and some Buddhist belief, a tabulation of peoples deeds throughout their lifetime such that, if they have been mostly good, they are reincarnated into a better existence, and if mostly bad, into a worse existence. |
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| Tales and beliefs transmitted from generation to generation, or springing up as part of the popular mind in a current generation, many containing psychological truth or fulfilling some deep-rooted need. |
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| A literary work that continues to be read even centuries after its initial appearance because it is still relevant. |
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| A genre of literature; a long narrative poem recounting the actions of a hero who exemplifies strength, courage, and cunning but not necessarily moral value. |
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| Any distinct category within a discipline such as, in literature, the epic, poetry, the novel, the short story; a genre generally imposes certain requirements on the writer: e.g., a sonnet must have fourteen lines; a haiku must have seventeen syllables. |
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| Classical rhythmic scheme, widely used in English verse, consisting of five repetitions in a poetic line of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the line Shall I compare thee to a summers day? |
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| Italian term denoting a way of reproducing in a work of art the interplay of light and shadow in the real world. |
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| The balanced harmonious, often mathematical characteristics of art and architecture in 5th century Athens and those aspects of Roman art that were heavily influenced by artists of that period; also used for all subsequent art and architecture created in that style. |
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| Artwork painted on the walls of churches and public buildings popular in the Renaissance, in t to wet plaster. |
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| Refers less to a particular art movement that to art produced in the late 19th to late 20th centuries. |
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| Art produced from the late 20th century to the present; less a specific movement than a broad umbrella term for the many innovative techniques. |
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| The period of artistic, political, and social movement that began in 14th century Italy, then spread throughout Western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries; characterized by renewed interest in the classical world, and also marking the end of medievalism and the emergence of the modern world. |
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| Art that defies traditional forms; contemporary avant-garde music uses much dissonance and atonality. |
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| Label applied to the artistic style of the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries marked by elaborate ornamentation and complexity original meaning irregular pearl. |
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| Alternation of stress and unstress in music, usually created by percussion instrument. |
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| The orderly progression of sound-wave frequencies from low to high. |
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| A form in which the melodic line of a piece is played against, not with, the accented beats of the rhythm accompaniment, as in George Gershwins Fascinating Rhythm and the Beatles Eleanor Rigby. |
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| A single sound produced by a human voice or musical instrument; also called note. |
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| A character whose function in a play is to oppose the central characters actions most often found in melodramas. |
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| According to Aristotle, the purging of pity and fear that comes from these emotional responses to a tragedy. |
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| One of two major genres to grow out of Greek theater; originally a short piece that followed a trilogy of tragic plays in order to lighten the mood of the audience; now, any theater work with the primary intent of promoting laughter. |
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| Greek term meaning arrogance, the common tragic flaw of protagonists in Greek tragedy. |
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| A style that reinvents the formalism of early Greece and Rome; abundant in the 17th Century. |
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| Central character in a literary work; the person in terms of whose fortune we view and respond to the action; not to be confused with the hero, who generally is without flaws and who triumphs over bad people. |
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| Comedy that ridicules such things as war, political corruption, and religious hypocrisy but tends to be less wildly exaggerated than parody. |
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| One of the two major forms of drama, focusing on the downfall of a protagonist due to a serious character flaw. In Greek and Shakespearean tragic drama, the protagonist is a high-ranking noble person, but not so in modern tragedy. |
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| A spinning movement, executed by the dancer balancing on one foot while the body spins around rapidly. |
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| Ballet training movement in which the feet are extended horizontally with heels touching, and the torso is slowly lowered into a squat position. |
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| The way the camera tells a story. |
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| A genre of film known for dark settings, cynicism, and emphasis on the seamy side of human nature; the story usually centers on crime in the city, investigated by an alienated hero. |
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| A characterization identified with a certain actor such as Humphrey Bogart, often to the point where the public comes to believe the actor and the character are the same person. |
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| One who believes that we cannot know for sure whether God exists. |
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| One who believes that God cannot logically exist. |
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| In Hinduism, the name given to the spiritual force that governs the universe; the universal soul. |
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| In India, a social class; in Hindu belief, determined by the moral quality of your previous life. |
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| Latin phrase meaning creation out of nothing; used in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to describe the universe that God made. |
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| In Hinduism, the moral structure underlying existence; in Buddhism, the equivalent of Brahman, the universal soul; Chinese equivalent Tao. |
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| The philosophical method used by Socrates, involving question and answer. |
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| Generic term for religion of India dating back to c. 1500 B.C.E., based on honoring numerous deities and a belief in reincarnation. |
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| High Christian court assembled beginning in the 13th century for the trial and sentencing of those convicted of heresy. |
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| Philosophy developed in America which holds that the truth of an idea is measurable by experiment and practical outcome. |
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| In Taoism, the active component of existence, symbolized in art as the white crescent of a circle, which also contains a small black circle; the yang is balanced by and works with the yin. |
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| in Taoism, the passive component of existence, symbolized in art as the black crescent of a circle, which also contains a small white circle; the yin is balanced by and works with the yang. |
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| Austere and monastic form of Buddhism, centering on the highly disciplined practice of meditating for very long periods of time; from the Chinese chan, meaning meditation. |
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| The quality of acting out of concern for the welfare of others rather than ones own. |
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| Pertains to the manipulation of others through duplicity; derived from Machiavellis theory of government that advocates a powerful leader who exerts power over others. |
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| Belief that a given set of moral standards, derived from reason, religion, or culture, is universally binding. |
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| The belief that moral standards are not universal but rather, vary depending on time, culture and situation. |
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| Belief founded on Benthams moral mathematics that, because moral choices have a scientific basis, they should not be made for the individual by any rulers espousing any particular moral system but should be the result of logical analysis of the number of people who could benefit from a given choice: the greatest good for the greatest number. |
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