Speech Basics
Listening & Audiencing
Language
Informative Speaking
Miscellaneous
100
The three main parts of a speech.
What is Introduction, Body, and Conclusion?
100
The active process of interpretation (Decoding)
What is Listening?
100
A holistic symbol system used to communicate.
What is Language?
100
A kind of informative speech in which the speaker provides the audience with "how-to" steps. 
What is Instructing?
100
The three most common types of public speeches. 
What is Informative, Persuasive, and Ceremonial? 
200
The part of a speech, usually in the conclusion, which functions to give audience specific actions they can adopt or enact with your information. 
What is Call to Action?
200
A style of listening in which we try to imagine another's experience and understand the feeling of the speaker.
What is Empathic? 
200
The literal (dictionary definition) meaning of a word.
What is Denotation?
200
A kind of informative speech in which the speaker gives an account or description of events, places, special objects, interesting people, etc.
What is Reporting?
200

How we view things, or how we (individually and socially) discern or assign meaning.

What is Perception?
300

Three main general purposes of a speech which are distinctly emphasized but overlap.

What is Persuasive, Informative, and Entertaining?
300
Describes identity categories such as age, gender, race, education status, political or religious affiliation, etc.
What is Demographics? 
300
The associated contextual meanings surrounding a word. 
What is Connotation?
300
A learning principle which states people learn better when things are arranged sequentially.
What is Serial Learning? 
300
The process of putting messages into signs and symbols.
What is Encoding? 
400
A form of support which uses direct quotes in context from qualified experts on the topic.
What is Testimony?
400
A type of audience whose attention is already secured or guaranteed by rules of order.
What is Passive Audience? 
400

Specialized language contextually specific to different fields/industries.

What is Jargon?
400
A learning principle which states a topic is best understood if it can be compared to something the audience already knows.
What is From Known to Unknown? 
400
A model which shows communication as a process of encoding and decoding between a sender/speaker and receiver/audience.
What is the Transaction Model of Communication?
500
These three elements should make up the introduction to any speech. 
What is Attention Getter, Central Idea/Thesis, and Preview Statement?
500
The model of listening which includes Sensation, Selection, Interpretation, Evaluation, and Response.
What is the Process Model of Listening?
500
A theory which states language creates our reality by shaping the ways in which we conceptualize the world (i.e., our words shape our thoughts, our thoughts shape our reality, ergo our words shape our reality).
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? 
500
The supposed "magic number" of repetitions to use to reinforce and emphasize a point.
What is Three? 
500
These are the five types of audiences. 
What is Pedestrian, Passive, Selected, Concerted, and Organized? 
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