Speaking and Listening
Speech Preparation
Organizing and Outlining
Presenting the Speech
Varietes of Public Speaking
100
Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of class.
What is Stage Fright?
100
The subject of a speech.
What is topic?
100
A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention to key ideas.
What is a signpost?
100
An explicit comparison, introduced with the word "like" or "as," between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
What is a simile?
100
A speech designed to convey knowledge and understanding.
What is an informative speech?
200
The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
What is ethics?
200
A method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas.
What is brainstorming?
200
the audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
What is credibility?
200
An implicit comparison, NOT introduced with "like" or "as," between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
What is a metaphor?
200
A systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product.
What is a process?
300
A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
What is topical order?
300
Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people, usually by assuming that all members of the group are alike.
What is stereotyping?
300
A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step by step to a dramatic final statement.
What is a dissolve ending?
300
A variety of a language distinguished by variations of accent, grammar, or vocabulary.
What is dialect?
300
The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions.
What is persuasion?
400
A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of rules.
What is an extemporaneous speech?
400
An interview conducted to gather information for a speech.
What is a research interview?
400
A list of all sources used in preparing a speech.
What is a bibliography?
400
A complete set of type of the same design.
What is font?
400
A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
What is a question of policy?
500
The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Numerical data.
What are statistics?
500
Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
What are delivery cues?
500
The physical production of particular speech sounds.
What is articulation?
500
An error in reasoning.
What is a fallacy?
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