Question: A term for social identities and relations that signals a rejection of dominant norms and expectations associated with heterosexuality:
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Gay
Queer
Cisgender
Unicorn
Answer: B (Queer)
Question: Michel Foucault examined the relationship among power, discourse, and ________
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logic
knowledge
science
rhetoric
Answer: B (knowledge)
Question: This structure, common in prisons, is often used to illustrate the concept of hegemony:
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jail cell
barbed wire fencing
mess hall
panopticon
Answer: D (panopticon)
Question: Many contemporary rhetorical theorists have embraced a constitutive perspective on rhetoric to argue that rhetoric does not merely represent reality but, rather, actively participates in the construction of our social reality. Which historical perspective is a constitutive perspective most similar to?
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Augustine’s
Plato’s
Aspasia’s
Sophists’
Answer: D (Sophists’)
Question: Systems of beliefs, values, and assumptions that shape a group’s ways of perceiving & acting within the world:
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rhetorical persona
ideology
discourse
hegemony
Answer: B (ideology)
Question: Queer theory views identities as complex and rejects the tendency to understand identities in terms of opposites (e.g. gay/straight, man/woman). For this reason, we say that queer theory opposes:
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heterosexuals
science
binaries
normativity
Answer: C (binaries)
Question: This term refers to discourse that emerges from and about experiences of living “between cultures”:
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rhetoric of difference
discursive space
border rhetoric
rhetoric of marginalization
Answer: C (border rhetoric)
Question: This term refers to the imposition of ideals and expectations related to masculine/feminine gender roles and opposite-sex relations on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender culture, identity, and relations:
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Queer
Heteronormativity
Cisgender
Homonormativity
Answer: D (Homonormativity)
Question: This term refers to the processes by which non-dominant groups are placed on the borders of dominant culture and excluded from the full spectrum of rights, opportunities, and resources associated with belonging to that culture:
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Hegemony
Queer
Normativity
Marginalization
Answer: D (Marginalization)
Question: Perspectives that address the intersection of race/ethnicity & gender with an emphasis on identities and experiences of women of Mexican origin who live in the United States:
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Chicana feminism
Border rhetoric
Intersectional feminism
Rhetoric of difference
Answer: A (Chicana feminism)
Question: One critique of modernism is that it implies an epistemological hierarchy. This means that modernism…
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makes reality appear fixed and natural
embraces various approaches to research and inquiry
privileges one type of knowledge and devalues other possible approaches to knowledge
considers concerns and perspectives of marginalized groups
Answer: C (privileges one type of knowledge and devalues other possible approaches to knowledge)
Question: The development of meaning for ideographs based on the way they’re being used within their present context points to their:
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ideological structure
hegemonic structure
synchronic structure
diachronic structure
Answer: C (synchronic structure)
Question: According to Bessett, queer rhetoric should avoid universalizing normativity and resistance by:
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examining contingent relations among norms, rhetors, and audiences
acknowledging polysemic interpretations & implications
ignoring the historical context of discourse and focusing on its contemporary context
situating discourse within its historical and contemporary contexts
Answer: A, B, D (examining contingent relations among norms, rhetors, and audiences; acknowledging polysemic interpretations & implications; situating discourse within its historical and contemporary contexts)
Question: The study of the production of knowledge:
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Ideology
Rhetoricology
Ontology
Epistemology
Answer: D (Epistemology)
Question: For Foucault, this was a method of tracing the evolution of discourse and knowledge across a culture’s history:
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Genealogy
Productive power
Queer rhetoric
Grid of intelligibility
Answer: A (Genealogy)
Question: According to McKerrow, a critical rhetorical perspective can aid in the pursuit of social justice. However, critics must recognize that the alternative social formations produced through critical rhetoric are also structured by power and must be further examined for who/what is being excluded and/or marginalized, making __________ required:
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rhetorical theory
politics
social movements
permanent criticism
Answer: D (permanent criticism)