Arts & Culture — Set 2: In Context flashcards
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The puppet theater's Saturday show acts out the ______ of the lion who spares a mouse and is later freed from a hunter's net by that same mouse.fableLiterature
A short lesson story starring talking animals is a fable. A parable also teaches a lesson, but its characters are usually people; a lion and a mouse point to a fable. -
In Naples hangs Bruegel's 1568 picture of Jesus's ______ of the blind leading the blind: six sightless men stumbling, one behind another, toward a ditch.parableLiterature
A simple lesson story about people, told here by Jesus, is a parable. Fable is tempting, but fables often star talking animals; these are people, and the lesson is religious. -
For the museum's show of Japanese ink paintings, a visiting poet wrote an English ______ for each scroll: three short unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.haikuPoetry
Three unrhymed lines that run five, seven and five syllables make a haiku. A couplet has two lines, usually rhyming, and a limerick has five, so the line count settles it. -
At the poetry slam, Anouk's line "Brick by brick, the block builds back" leans on ______, hammering the same b sound at the start of word after word.alliterationPoetry
When nearby words open with the same sound, as these b words do, that is alliteration. Rhyme matches the ends of words, and the clue here is the start of each word. -
The recital opened with Rachmaninoff's famous ______ in C-sharp minor, a short piano piece that stands on its own and introduces nothing.preludeMusic
A short piano piece that stands alone is a prelude. An overture is the orchestra's opening number for a ballet, musical or opera, and an interlude comes between parts. -
Teodor leaves bare white paper for the clouds in his ______, since the thin, see-through paint can't cover dark with light.watercolorVisual Art
Thin, see-through paint, with the paper left white for highlights, means a watercolor. Impasto is the opposite: paint laid on so thickly it hides whatever is beneath. -
The harpsichordist's program stays strictly ______: Purcell, Couperin and Rameau, every piece composed before 1750.baroqueArchitecture & Style
Music from about 1600 to 1750, like these pieces, is baroque. Acoustic is tempting, since a harpsichord plays without amplification, but the list after the colon is about when the music was written, not how it sounds. -
Every one of the ______'s nine plays takes place in the same apartment building, and her fans now know each tenant by name.playwrightTheater & Film
A writer of plays is a playwright. An understudy performs a role someone else wrote, and a screenplay is a film script, not a person. -
Citizen Kane is taught as a ______ work because its deep-focus shots and jumbled timeline shaped how movies were made for decades.seminalReviews & Museums
A work that breaks new ground and shapes much of what follows in its field is seminal. Mainstream means popular with most people; the clue here is influence on later films. -
The developer offered to restore the old theater for free, but the board suspected a ______, and the fine print proved it right: half the building would become condos.Trojan horseAllusions & Myth
An innocent-looking offer that carries a hidden threat inside is a Trojan horse. A Pandora's box lets troubles loose once opened; this danger was hidden in the offer from the start.
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