Introductory Stuff
Audiences and Ethics
Informative Invention
Arrangement
Delivery
100
A core characteristic of public speaking is that it is centered on this party to communication, so important it is mentioned in two of the four characteristics.
What is an audience?
100
A broad category of audience information; subcategories include gender, age, ethnicity, and education level.
What are demographics?
100
A crucial quality of supporting material, it refers to the extent to which we can trust evidence and its source.
What is credibility?
100
This structural element between sections of a speech usually sums up the key point of the previous section and previews the key point of the next section.
What is a transition?
100
The two primary areas of delivery used by a public speaker.
What are verbal and nonverbal delivery?
200
The art of rhetoric, or effective public speaking, was most completely developed first in this ancient civilization.
What is ancient Greece?
200
This information about your supporting evidence sources should be recorded clearly during your research so you can fulfill your ethical obligation to share it with your audience in speeches and outlines.
What are source citations?
200
An informative strategy that uses concrete detail to help an audience visualize a mental picture.
What is description?
200
Depending on your subject matter, of course, this is the range of the typically ideal number of main points.
What is two to five?
200
This preferred mode of most everyday public speaking involves both careful outline preparation and conveying a conversational, spontaneous presentation.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
300
Besides taking care of and relaxing one's body, the single most important strategy to address speech anxiety.
What is preparation?
300
A form of supporting material that describes and explains through the use of a story.
What is a narrative?
300
This organizational pattern is most effectively used when presenting an historical event or sequential stages in a process.
What is a chronological (or temporal) pattern?
300
A quality of verbal delivery concerning the use of vocal pitch to add warmth and color to your points.
What is tone?
400
Even more important than your topic, and possibly even your thesis statement, this statement included at the top of your outline with your title should be crafted and used to drive everything you do in preparing and presenting your speech.
What is your rhetorical purpose?
400
The extent to which your audience has heard messages like yours on our topic in the past.
What is prior exposure?
400
This first step of a research plan will help you minimize overwhelm by focusing your efforts productively.
What is "inventory your research needs (or objectives)?"
400
This convention of outline structure makes it easier to visualize the logical relationships between main points and subpoints, or between sub-points and sub-subpoints.
What is subordination?
400
Habitual sounds such as "um," "like," and "you know" that we often use to fill verbal silences.
What is verbal filler (or verbal tics)?
500
The umbrella term for the five primary stages of preparing and presenting a public speech, developed in classical Greece and Rome.
What are the canons of rhetoric?
500
For an audience with this kind of prior disposition, you need to limit the reach of your rhetorical purpose to small changes and opening the minds of your listeners by emphasizing common ground.
What is a hostile audience?
500
An informative strategy that involves physical modeling as well as verbal explanation for how something works.
What is demonstration?
500
This kind of word or phrase, such as "first," "next," and "last," is important to use so that listeners can follow a number of points in a sequence or a logical relationship between one idea and another more easily.
What is a signpost?
500
This term refers to the use of physical space and distance between speaker and audience to convey feelings or their relationship.
What is proxemics?
M
e
n
u