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| 267732915 | Aesthetic | Having to do with the appreciation of beauty. ex. The arrangement of paintings in the museum was due to _____ considerations; as long as the paintings looked good together, it didn't matter who panted them or when they were painted. | |
| 267732916 | Anthology | A collection of literary pieces ex. This _____ contains all of William Shakespeare's sonnets, but none of his plays. | |
| 267732917 | Contemporary | Current, modern; from the same time ex. _______ music is very different from the music of the 1920s. Pocahontas and William Shakespeare were ________ ; they lived during the same time, though not in the same place. | |
| 267732918 | Dilenttante | One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge. ex. You can't trust Betsy's opinion because she's just a _______ who doesn't understand the subtleties of the painting. | |
| 267732919 | Eclectic | Made up of variety of sources or styles ex. Lou's taste in music is ______; he listens to everything from rap to polka. | |
| 267732920 | Excerpt | A selected part of a passage or scene ex. We read an ____ from Romeo and Juliet in which Juliet says, "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" | |
| 267732921 | Genre | Describing a category or artistic endeavor. ex. Gene enjoyed only science-fiction movies; in fact, he never went to see anything that was not in that _____. | |
| 267732922 | Medley | An assortment or mixture, especially of musical pieces ex. At the concert, the band played a _____ of songs from its first album, cutting an hour's worth of music down to five minutes. | |
| 267732923 | Mural | A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface. ex. The ______ on the wall of the library showed the signing of the Declaration of Independence. | |
| 267732924 | Narrative | (adj.) Characterized by the telling of a story, (n) a story. ex. Tony gave us a running ______ of the game, since he was the only one who could see over the fence. | |
| 267732925 | Realism | Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy. ex. His photographs have a start ____ that conveys the true horror of the war. | |
| 267732926 | Parody | An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect. ex. The Onion is a satirical publication that is a _______ of other, nonsatirical newspapers that give real, true news. | |
| 267732927 | Virtuoso | A tremendously skilled artist. ex. Some people say that Jason Loewenstein is a guitar ____ because of his amazing work in Sebadoh-others say that his music is just a noise. |
