Speaking and Listening
Speech Preparation
Organizing and Outlining
Presenting the Speech
Varities of Public Speaking
100
Anything that impedes the communication of a message.
What is interference?
100
A method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas.
What is brainstorming?
100
A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
What is transition?
100
The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
What is rhythm?
100
Anything that is visible, tangible, and stable in form.
What is an object?
200
This means to present another person's language or ideas as your own.
What is plagiarism?
200
A listing of all books;periodicals, and other resources owned by a library.
What is a catalogue?
200
A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
What is a connective?
200
A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
What is impromptu?
200
Anything that happens or is regarded as happening.
What is an event?
300
This is the means by which a message is communicated.
What is a channel?
300
The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being.
What is egocentrism?
300
A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
What is chronological order?
300
A visual aid used to show statistical trends and patterns.
What is a graph?
300
The first basic issue in analyzing a question of policy.
What is need?
400
This is where you get the attention and interest of the audience.
What is the introduction?
400
The number that appears most frequently in a group of numbers.
What is the mode?
400
The audience's perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
What is goodwill?
400
A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
What is a pause?
400
The name Aristotle used for what modern day students of communication refer to as credibility.
What is Ethos?
500
The main section of your speech.
What is the body?
500
Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
What is testimony?
500
A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body.
What is the preview statement?
500
Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
What is clutter?
500
To present one's ideas in human terms that relate in some fashion to the experience of the audience.
What is personalize?
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