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Type A Tendencies
Now You're Speaking My Language
Just Give Me a Reason
Completely Random
100
Simple word or statement that indicates where you are in your speech or highlights an important idea
What is a signpost?
100
Word or phrase spoken by a speaker.
What is a symbol?
100
Process of reasoning that uses specific instances to come to a general conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
100
Aristotle’s proof that considers the speakers credibility
What is ethos?
200
Daily double!
The four patterns for organizing the main points of your speech
200
verbal device that makes information easier to remember
What is a mnemonic device?
200
Mental leaps we make when we recognize that the speaker’s evidence supports their claim
What is an inference?
200
Error in reasoning in which a speaker assumes that one even caused another simply because it happened first
What is a false cause?
300
A word or phrase used to link ideas in a speech
What is a connective?
300
Object, concept, or event a symbol represents
What is a referent?
300
Argument that claims a first step in a certain direction will inevitably lead to undesirable further steps in that direction
What is slippery slope fallacy?
300
pattern that uses one or more stories to construct an argument
What is narrative organization?
400
Detailed outline the speaker builds when preparing for a speech
What is a preparation outline?
400
Pauses that speakers fill with verbal clutter like “Um”
What are vocalized pauses?
400
Process of reasoning that uses a familiar and commonly accepted claim to establish the truth of a very specific claim
What is deductive reasoning?
400
step by step process used to persuade audiences, abbreviated into the steps attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action
What is Monroe's Motivated Sequence?
500
Detailed outline the speaker builds when preparing for a speech
What is a preparation outline?
500
Metaphor that makes illogical comparison between two or more things
What is a mixed metaphor?
500
Claim in an argument that states a familiar, commonly accepted beli
What is a major premise?
500
Speech that is carefully prepared and presented from brief notes
What is an extemporaneous speech?