Topic Selection
Delivering Your Speech
Gathering Support
Organizing Your Presentation
Support for Your Presentations
100
Name one of three ways to learn about your audience
What is observation, questionnaire, or survey interview?
100
Fear of speaking before an audience
What is speech anxiety?
100
Travis wants to use a website that can help him access other sites through a subject or key word search.
What is search engine?
100
Name the three parts of your speech.
What is introduction, body, and conclusion?
100
A comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends.
What is figurative analogy?
200
Name two techniques for finding a topic
What is self-inventory, brainstorming, reviewing current media, surfing the web?
200
An individual who either consciously or subconsciously have decided to remain silent
What is communication apprehension?
200
Melody needs help finding more information on hemp production in the US. Once in the library, Melody goes to a file of information about the books in the library. What is she using? Hint: this is now computerized in all libraries.
What is card catalog?
200
Name two important criteria to be met in the introduction of a speech?
What is gain the audience attention, state thesis, preview main points?
200
President Obama loves to use unelaborated examples, often only a sentence or two long.
What is brief illustrations?
300
Name the three general purposes of a speech? Give an example of each
What is to inform, persuade, and entertain?
300
Name three kinds presentation aids.
What is real objects, models, photographs and prints, drawing, sketches, and diagrams, tables and graphs?
300
Garrett wants to give a speech on "The Hitting Styles of Major League Baseball Players". He decided to narrow his search by entering "baseball AND hitting styles + Major league". What is this technique called?
What is Boolean search?
300
Kailey thinks her speech might be a little choppy. She has clearly identified her main points and now she needs to connect them together. What will help her do this?
What is transitions?
300
Definition by classification vs. operational definition. What's the difference?
What is dictionary definition vs. explaining how something works of what it does?
400
Alyssa enjoys the college environment. But when it comes to the classroom, she hates having to listen to boring professors teach. Just like the rest of her classmates, Alyssa is required to hear her teachers speech. What is Alyssa?
What is captive participant?
400
When giving a speech, list four of the physical aspects the speaker needs to be aware of.
What is physical appearance, body movement, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact?
400
Name four resources that can assist Kellen in finding information about pole vaulting.
What are books, periodicals, newspapers, government documents, reference materials?
400
This is a blueprint of your speech if used correctly.
What is an outline?
400
Amber's next speech is on "How to make Popcorn." For her attention getter, she decides to create an image of popcorn that allows her listeners to mentally see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the popcorn. Throughout her speech she makes clear what the process is for making popcorn. What two forms of support has Amber used?
What is desribing and explaining?
500
Laveda is giving a speech on the effects of Ballroom Dancing. She has identified her audience as predominately female, age ranging from 17-21, some college, located in the southwest region of the United States. What has Laved done to help direct her speech to her audience. Hint: Laveda has identified an area of analysis.
What is demographic analysis
500
Name and define the four methods of delivery.
What is impromptu (speaker delivers a speech with little or no planning or preparation), manuscript (speaker writes the speech in its entirety and then reads it word for word), memorized (speaker memorizes a speech in its entirety from a word-for-word script), and extemporaneous (speaker carefully prepares the speech in advance but delivers it using only a few notes and with a high degree of spontaneity).
500
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, atlases, almanacs and yearbooks, books of quotations, and biographical dictionaries are what? Hint: they call under one category.
What is reference resources?
500
Daniel has collected numerous sources for his next speech. He doesn't remember where they go and what is the title of this page
What is reference page, bibliography, works cited?
500
An opinion offered by someone who is an authority on a subject vs. an opinion or description offered by a nonexpert who has firsthand experience vs. an opinion or description by a writer who speaks in a memorable and often poetic way
What is expert testimony vs. lay testimony vs. literary quotation?
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