Unnecessary and undesirable phrases or utterances that are used by a speaker to cover pauses in a speech conversation, such as “uh,” “hmm,” “you know,” “ah,” and “like.”
What are Vocal Fillers?
The act of perceiving sound by the ear.
Speaking intended to increase audience’s understanding and awareness by imparting knowledge.
The act of pronouncing words and making sure they are clear.
What is Enunciation?
Examples, narratives, testimony, facts, and statistics that aid the speech thesis and form the speech.
What are Supporting Materials?
Not actively engaged in ideas and arguments.
What is Passive Listening?
The elements of an Introduction.
What is the Attention Getter, Thesis, Preview, and Credibility?
DAILY DOUBLE
The clarity with which you pronounce sounds and make them distinct and intelligible.
Helps the audience directly experience something you are talking about and can help simplify explanations.
What are Visual Aids?
DAILY DOUBLE
What type of listening seeks to find the meaning and relevance of what is being said?
The three persuasive appeals.
The process of gathering demographic and psychological information about audience members.
What is Audience Analysis?
Use emotion to get audience’s attention and stimulate desire to act.
What is the Review, Restate of your thesis, and the Big Bang?
The speakers eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, and movement during a speech.
What is Nonverbal communication?
An exercise for building confidence in which the speaker, while preparing for the speech, closes his or her eyes and envisions a series of positive feelings and reactions that will occur on the day of the speech.
What is Visualization?
The goal is evaluating what is said and offering constructive criticism.
What is Critical Listening?
Signal movement to a new point and where the speaker is in the speech.