Chapter 8 - Supporting Your Ideas
Numerical information used to explain or support ideas.
What is Statistics?
Changes in volume, pitch, rate, and pauses that make a voice expressive.
What is Vocal Variety?
A visual aid used to show statistical trends, patterns, or relationships.
What is a Graph?
Anxiety experienced before or during a public-speaking situation.
What is Stage Fright?
An expert testimony is a testimony from people who are recognized authorities in their fields, and a(n) _________________ is a testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic.
What is Peer Testimony?
The number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.
What is Mode?
A momentary break in the speaker's delivery.
What is Pause?
A visual aid that summarizes or organizes a large amount of information.
What is a Chart?
A systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result.
What is Process?
A quotation or paraphrase used to support a point.
What is Testimony?
The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest or lowest to highest.
What is Median?
A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
What is Impromptu Speech?
A graph that uses vertical or horizontal bars to show comparisons among categories.
What is a Bar Graph?
A statement showing differences between two or more things.
What is Contrast?
________ are changes in vocal pitch that help express meaning or emotion, whereas monotone is a voice that remains at nearly the same pitch and lacks vocal variation.
What are Inflections?
Restating or summarizing a source's ideas in one's own words.
What is Paraphrase?
Communication based on a person's use of voice and body rather than on words alone.
What is Nonverbal communication?
A graph that uses one or more lines to show changes over time or across categories.
What is a Line Graph?
A statement showing similarities between two or more things.
What is Comparison?
Giving a speaker full attention in a genuine effort to understand the message.
What is Active Listening?
The average value of a group of numbers.
What is Mean?
If Articulation is the physical production of particular speech sounds, then __________ is the accepted sound and accent of a word's syllables.
What is Pronunciation?
A circular graph divided into sections that show parts of a whole.
What is a Pie Graph?
A speech designed to communicate knowledge and understanding.
What is an Informative Speech?
Pitch is the highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
______ is the loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
______ is the speed at which a person speaks.
What is Volume and Rate?