The relative loudness of a speaker's voice while giving a speech.
What is volume?
100
This pattern is used when you organize material in a temporal sequence.
What is Chronological Speech Pattern?
100
A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. A word's cultural and/or emotional meaning in addition to their literal meanings.
What is Connotation?
100
An audience's general evaluations of people, ideas, objects, or events.
What are Audience Attitudes?
100
Includes objects, models, pictures, graphs, charts, video, audio, and multimedia elements.
What are presentation aids?
200
Non-verbal interruptions to the flow of speech (Er, Um, Uh)
What are vocal fillers?
200
Information represented in such a way as to provoke a desired response.
What is Propaganda?
200
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
200
Abandoning your convictions to cater to the audience’s whims.
What is Pandering?
200
Short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or the speech's intended purpose.
What is Thesis Statement?
300
Focuses on the stress, rhythm, and intonation of syllables in a word.
What is pronunciation?
300
Combination of Honesty and Dependability. Required to support your points truthfully and accurately.
What is Trustworthiness?
300
Pace at which you convey your speech.
What is speaking rate?
300
Intended audience with similar characteristics.
What is Target Audience?
300
Aristotle created these five speech pillars: Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery.
What are the Canons of Rhetoric?
400
Made up of the vocalizations that form and accompany spoken words.
What is the Aural Channel?
400
Firsthand findings, eyewitness accounts, opinions by people (experts or lay person).
What is Testimony?
400
Greek word meaning 'Character.'
What is Ethos?
400
Age, Ethic and Cultural Background, Socioeconomic status (including income, occupation, and education), Religious and Political Affiliations, Gender, and Disability.
What are Audience Demographics?
400
A type of speech that is unpracticed and spontaneous?
What is Speaking Impromptu?
500
Pitch your range of sound between high and low. Distinguishes between statements, questions, and overall mood.
What is Intonation?
500
Describes information mathematically according to its typical characteristics often presented as mean, median and mode.
What is Statistical Average?
500
A grammatical construction in which the subject is acted upon or is the receiver of the action.
What is passive voice?
500
Dividing a general audience into smaller groups to identify target audiences with similar characteristics, wants and needs.
What is Audience Segmentation?
500
The study of the spatial requirements of humans and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.