Speech
An organized, face-to-face, prepared, intentional attempt to inform, entertain, or persuade a group of people through words, physical delivery, and with visual or audio aids.
A) Public Speaking
B) Communication
A) Public Speaking
The inner characteristics of the audience.
Example: Beliefs, attitudes, needs, or values.
A) Stereotypes
B) Psychological Characteristics
B) Psychological Characteristics
When preparing to write a speech about a topic, your first step is to gather.
A) Information
B) Experience
A) Information
The resources beyond the speech itself that a speaker uses to enhance the message conveyed to the audience.
A) Presentation aids
B) Props
A) Presentation aids
A speech given in honor of someone who has died.
A) Hero
B) Eulogy
B) Eulogy
Direct or indirect messages sent from an audience back to the original sender of the message.
A) Encode
B) Feedback
B) Feedback
During a persuasive speech the audience members are holding a ___ with the speaker and their content in which they are putting up counter argument's.
A) Disagreement
B) Mental Dialogue
B) Mental Dialogue
Can be thought of as specific to make your ideas, arguments, and assertions, points, or concepts real and concrete.
A) Supportive Material
B) Incidental Material
A) Supportive Material
Of or relating to the sense of smell.
A) Gustatory
B) Olfactory
B) Olfactory
A speech based entirely and exclusively on facts and whose main purpose is to inform rather than persuade, amuse, or inspire.
A) Informative
B) Defamatory
A) Informative
A stable positive or negative response to a person, idea, object, or policy.
A) Attitude
B) Needs
A) Attitude
How people organize and interpret the patterns of stimuli around them.
A) Perception
B) Observation
A) Perception
Books, article, and textbooks are considered.
A) Primary Sources
B) Secondary Sources
B) Secondary Sources
Strong and controlled energy in voice and posture, eye contact, variety, and purposeful movement all add to.
A) Credibility
B) Story
A) Credibility
A humorous speech designed to both praise and good-naturedly insult a person being honored.
A) Roast
B) Skit
A) Roast
An infinitive phrase that builds upon the speaker's general purpose to clearly indicate precisely what the goal of a given speech is.
A) Specific Purpose Statement
B) Central Idea
A) Specific Purpose Statement
Refers to the physical closeness between audience members and and speakers.
A) Proximity
B) Adjacent
A) Proximity
The collection, analysis, comparison, and interpretation of numerical data, understanding its comparison with other numerical data.
A) Elements
B) Statistics
B) Statistics
Audience members will experience your speech through all five of their senses: hearing, vision, smell, taste, and touch.
A) True
B) False
A) True
A type of connective that serves as a bridge between disconnected (but related) material in a speech.
A) Transition
B) Bridging statement
A) Transition
Using the emotions such as anger, joy, hate, desire, and love to persuade the audience.
A) Pathos
B) Ethos
C) Logos
A) Pathos
A type of connective that emphasizes moving the audience psychologically to the next part of a speech.
A) Proposition
B) Bridging statement
B) Bridging statement
The words of others used as proof of evidence.
A) Accusation
B) Speech
C) Testimony
C) Testimony
Use only as many presentation aids as necessary to present your message.
A) True
B) False
A) True
The word-for-word iteration of a written message.
A) Quote
B) Manuscript speaking
B) Manuscript speaking