Misc 1
Nancy Duarte emphasizes designing presentations with the audience as this central focus.
What is the hero?
The ultimate goal of a presentation, according to Duarte, is to inspire this in the audience.
What is action?
Nancy Duarte encourages thinking of slides as these, which should support but not overshadow your story.
What are visual aids?
To fully engage, speakers must shift from self-centeredness to this audience-centric perspective.
What is empathy?
Duarte contrasts static data with this type of emotional content to create resonance.
What are stories?
Duarte argues that this narrative archetype can transform audiences by showing what's possible.
What is the hero’s journey?
This is the default slide layout when you open a new PowerPoint presentation.
What is a Title Slide?
This technique breaks up predictable rhythms and patterns in presentations to captivate listeners.
What is contrast?
The keyboard shortcut to start a slideshow from the beginning.
What is F5?
The file extension for a standard PowerPoint file.
You use this tab to change the font style, size, or color of your text.
What is the Home tab?
A combination of bold, italic, and underline text formatting.
What are Font Styles?
This PowerPoint feature provides pre-designed themes for slides, including colors, fonts, and effects.
is is the name of the view that lets you create a consistent look across all slides by editing the master layout.
What is Slide Master View?
This segment in Duarte's framework is where the stakes are set and tension begins to rise.
What is the call to adventure?
Nancy Duarte highlights this primal human need as the reason stories are so impactful.
This element of a story, found in Duarte's framework, offers closure and a way forward,
What is the resolution?
What are Transitions?
This type of presentation combines narrative techniques with visuals to inspire change.
What is a storytelling presentation?
What are Animations?
Duarte borrows this dramatic structure from Aristotle to organize compelling presentations.
What is the three-act structure?
Duarte emphasizes aligning the structure of your presentation with this universal cognitive pattern.
What is the way people process stories?
This PowerPoint feature provides pre-designed themes for slides, including colors, fonts, and effects.
What is a Design Theme?
This form of storytelling involves the audience imagining themselves as the protagonist.
What is participatory storytelling?
This visual model oscillates between the presenter’s ideas and the audience’s needs.
What is the sparkline?