Chapter 5
Beliefs, values, and experiences that a speaker shares with his/her listeners.
A) Race
B) Common ground
B) Common ground
How many sentences should be in your thesis statement?
A) One
B) Two or more
A) One
Approval by other experts in the field.
A) Peer Review
B) Credibility
A) Peer Review
Explains how something is used or what it does.
A) Functional Definition
B) Etymological Definition
A) Functional Definition
The few ideas that are most important for your listeners to remember.
A) Supporting Points
B) Main Points
B) Main Points
A person's status of being so called "straight" or one more of "GLBT."
A) Sexual Orientation
B) Ethnicity
A) Sexual Orientation
What is often an effective way to begin your topic selection process.
A) Research
B) Brainstorming
A) Research
A strategy for finding and keeping track of information to use in your speech.
A) Power Wording
B) Research Plan
B) Research Plan
An anecdote (a brief story) or somewhat longer account that can be used to support your main points.
A) Analogy
B) Figurative
B) Figurative
A sentence that indicates you are moving from one part of your speech to the next.
A) Thesis Statement
B) Transition
B) Transition
An audience which has neither negative nor positive opinions about you or your message.
A) Mobile Audience
B) Neutral Audience
B) Neutral Audience
When (blank), you list every idea that comes to mind without evaluating its merits.
A) Brainstorm
B) Strategize
A) Brainstorming
Offer relatively brief entries that provide background information on a wide range of alphabetized topics.
A) Dictionaries
B) Encylopedias
B) Encyclopedias
A piece of data (or information) presented in numerical form.
A) Statistic
B) Example
A) Statistic
(blank) means creating a hierarchy of points and their supporting materials in your speech.
A) Subordination
B) Sub-subpoints
A) Subordination
An audience that holds you in high personal esteem or agrees with your message.
A) Sympathetic Audience
B) Stationary Audience
A) Sympathetic Audience
Your intended effect on the audience constitutes your (blank).
A) Rhetorical Purpose
B) Specific Purpose
A) Rhetorical Purpose
A publication that appears at regular intervals - weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.
A) Periodical
B) Abstract
A) Periodical
Consists of statements made by persons with no special expertise in the subject they are discussing.
A) Expert Testimony
B) Lay Testimony
B) Lay Testimony
A (blank) organizes the speech around major similarities and differences between two events, objects, or situations.
A) Comparison Patterns
B) Causal Patterns
A) Comparison Patterns
Also known as body clock.
A) Demographics
B) Chronemics
B) Chronemics
What is your purpose when you seek to convince audience members to consider or adopt a new position, strengthen an existing belief, or take a particular action
A) Specific Purpose
B) Persuasive Purpose
B) Persuasive Purpose
Having no bias - prejudice or partisanship - that would prevent the source from making an impartial judgment on your speech's topic.
A) Participatory (social) Media
B) Objectivity
B) Objectivity
An analogy that compares two entitles in the same category, such as the careers of two singers from different time periods.
A) Literal Analogy
B) Figurative Analogy
A) Literal Analogy
The main points represent important aspects of your topic that can be thought of as adjacent to one another in location or geography.
A) Spatial Pattern
B) Chronological (temporal) Pattern
A) Spatial Pattern