Informative Speeches
Persuasion
Definitions
Reasoning
100

This type of speech's purpose is to inform and explain a topic’s significance.

Informative

100

Calls on your audience to believe that something was, is, or will be true.

Proposition of Fact

100

Divides human needs into five categories: physiological, safety, social, ego, and self-actualization.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

100

This persuasive appeal deals with proper reasoning in the speech.

Logos.

200

In this speech you don’t just explain how to do something, you show how to.

Demonstration

200

Asks the audience to make a moral judgment about the worth of an idea or object.

Proposition of Value.

200

Draws conclusions from available evidence

Reasoning

200

Refers to the current way something is being done.

Status quo.

300

In this kind of speech you explain how to do something with visual aids.

Process

300

A five-step plan for organizing a persuasive speech.

Monroe's Motivated Sequence.

300

Calls for the audience to agree with a change in the status quo.

Proposition of Policy.

300

Reasoning from general truth to specific situations.

Deduction.

400

This kind of speech describes something that can be observed.

Description

400

This persuasive appeal uses uses emotions to motivate the audience to agree with you.

Pathos.

400

What are the five parts of Monroe's Motivated Sequence?

Attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, action.

400

Reasons from specific instances to a general conclusion.

Induction.

500

This kind of speech focuses on the reasons that an event happened

Explanation

500

This persuasive appeal deals with character, intelligence, and goodwill perceived by audience.

Ethos.

500

Name the five parts of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization.

500

Information that helps you draw a conclusion.

Evidence.

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