Purpose
This is the difference between a thesis and a preview in a speech.
What is the thesis tells your topic and the preview outlines your main points?
These are the four parts of the communication cycle.
What are sender, message, receiver, and feedback?
This amendment gives citizens the right to speak publicly.
What is the First Amendment?
These are two types of hook techniques used in a speech introduction.
What are anecdote, quote, statistic, question, joke, or visualization?
These are the five elements that make up the rhetorical situation.
What are speaker, audience, occasion, exigence, and context?
These are the three general purposes of a speech.
What are to inform, to persuade, and to entertain?
These are two signs that someone is practicing effective listening.
What are paying attention and providing feedback?
This term describes using someone else’s work without credit.
What is plagiarism?
These three elements belong in the conclusion of a speech.
What are summary, restated thesis, and clincher?
This term refers to the big-picture structure of a speech.
What is macrostructure?
These are the three major sections in a well-structured speech.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion?
This term describes when someone's verbal and nonverbal messages don’t match.
What is incongruent communication?
This is one trait of an ethical communicator.
What is honesty, integrity, fairness, respect, or responsibility?
This is the average word count for one main point in a speech.
What is 150 words?
This refers to the smaller parts of a speech like hook, preview, and transitions.
What is microstructure?
This type of speech is meant to explain a complex idea clearly.
What is an informative speech?
These are three examples of nonverbal communication.
What are gestures, proximity, touch, eye contact, and facial expressions?
This is one reason why plagiarism is unethical in public speaking.
What is: it misrepresents your work or takes credit from others?
This is the purpose of using a transition in your speech.
What is to guide the audience and connect ideas smoothly?
This term refers to the real need or purpose behind a speech.
What is exigence?
This type of speech tries to influence what the audience thinks, believes, or does.
What is a persuasive speech?
This part of the communication cycle is shown when the audience reacts, responds, or asks a question.
What is feedback?
These are two ethical guidelines for using AI tools in speech writing.
What are use AI only for brainstorming or tutoring, and always do your own writing?
This technique is used in both the hook and the clincher to tie the speech together.
What is full-circle structure or circular closure?
This term includes all factors that influence how the audience will receive your message.
What is context?