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100

Female Rhetorician of the 6th Century BCE

Who is Aspasia 

100

 A mid-sized city in the midwest where Ralph Cintron studied cultural phenomena through his surroundings of everyday life in the Mexican-American community.

What is Angels Town

100

Greek philosophical term meaning “the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before”; According to Powell, survivance is considered an example of this.

What is poiesis (poy-E-sis)

200

This Rhetor wrote How to Tame a Wild Tongue 

Gloria Anzaldua 

200

A place where rhetoric has the most exposure and is traditionally taught.

What is America/Western Eurocentric

200

According to Anzaldua, this Spanish term means a Spanish word distorted by English, or a word bearing US influence.

What is pochismo (poh-cheez-moh)

300

Worlds First known poet 

Enheduanna

300

Where Enduhannah wrote poetry and taught rhetoric.

What is Southern Mesopotamia/Sumer.

300

Term used to identify people of Mexican descent born on US soil, which was popularized during a 1960s movement meant to boost morale and unite the Latin and Hispanic communities. 

What is chicano (chi-kaa-now)

400
  • A 21st century ethnographer who significantly contributed to the multimodal practices of  latin x

Ralph Cintron

400

Progymnasmata are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient _________ and continued during the Roman Empire. These exercises were implemented by students of rhetoric, who began their schooling between ages twelve and fifteen.

What is Greece

400

A Latin American term meaning a woman of mixed race, especially one having indigenous and Spanish descent.

What is mestiza (meh-stee-zuh)

500

Wrote  “Disciplinary Landscaping or Contemporary Challenges in The History of Rhetoric”

Jaqueline Royster

500

 Where Gloria Anzaldua was born. Here she struggled with her identity growing up in a community where she did not feel she fit in anywhere. It inspired her in the future to write about experiencing oppression as a woman of color, as well as battling through restrictive roles that existed in the Chicano community.

What is Raymond, Texas

500

A form of direct address used by Anishinaabemowin speakers to designate the collective voice and to address men individually; derived from “my brother, my cousin, my fellow man”.

What is niij (nE-juh)

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