Basic Elements of a Speech
Non-verbal aspects of a speech
Modes of Persuasion
Rhetorical Devices
Vocabulary
100

The background, which provides a reason for the speaker to give the speech.

What is context?

100

Look at the person(s) you are speaking to.

What is eye contact?

100

Trying to make the listener feel strong emotions.

What is pathos?

100

The speaker repeats a certain word or phrase multiple times in his or her speech.

What is repetition?

100

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something.

What is ambivalent?

200

What you are trying to accomplish with the speech.

What is purpose?

200

Don’t be monotone!

What is infection?

200

Showing that the speaker is someone worth trusting.

What is Ethos?

200

The speaker asks a question,  and then answers the question.

What is hypophora?

200

To reach the highest point or final stage of development.

What is culminate?

300

The people who the speech is intended to speak to.

What is audience?

300

Pointing, lifting arms and calling people to rise, putting a fist in the air to show power, etc

What are hand gestures?

300

The facts or logic that support a speaker’s message.

What is Logos?

300

Tools do authors use to help make their message powerful and heard by the audience.

What are Rhetorical Devices?

300

To convince someone to do or believe something by using reason or argument.

What is persuade?

400

The central idea that the speaker is trying to communicate to the listener.

What is message?

400

Your posture while speaking on stage or behind a podium.

What is physical aspect?

400

Imagine your poor old grandmother sitting alone in her room coughing and hacking after a cigarette.

This is an example of

What is pathos?

400

The speaker uses exaggeration to emphasize a certain point.

What is hyperbole?

400

The practice of taking action to bring about political or social change.

What is activism?

500

PIED = persuade, inform, entertain, describe

What is the author's purpose?

500

Do you Believe in Me? 10 year old student who spoke to an auditorium filled with educational staff.

Who is Dalton Sherman?

500

A doctor recently stated that smokers are 65% more likely to have lung cancer than people who do not smoke.

This is an example of

What is Logos?

500

A personal story that helps connect with the audience and make the message stronger.

What is an anecdote?

500

This picture represent which Vocabulary word.


What is ambivalent?

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