Extra credit

Corrupting the youth since 500 BCE

Compose an rap about a historical rhetorician!

For a whopping 25 points, you can compose and perform original rap about a historical rhetorician in a video.

I would also be open to a smokey mountain folk tune if that is more your speed.

Your rap must adhere to the following rules:

Must include at least 2 verses and a choruses. (A bridge is appreciated, but not required)
The verses must be longer than the chorus.
You must have a beat or music in the background.
You must use the items in the image on the right to guide your rap
- (These items can be found on page 32 of the text linked at the bottom of this page. More information about each items can be found on the following pages.)
You may collapse several items into a single verse if it makes sense.
- For example, the origin and birth could be one verse.
In addition to these items, you must also include the rhetor's contribution to the study or practice of rhetoric. This topoi could stand on its own or be included with an existing topoi (actions, death, etc.).

Gorgias

(Literally got people high on rhetoric)

Sappho

(One of the only women rhetors and we have records showing she was queer)

Quintilian

(patron saint of students bc he was against homework. Good figure to those interested in education.)

Heraclitus

(rumored to be a hermit who was unalived by wild dogs in a pile of poo.)

Here is some inspo

Pernot, Laurent, and ProQuest Academic Complete. Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2015.
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