Persuasive Speaking
Language and Style
Logical Fallacies
Organization
Mixed Bag
100
Addressing audiences' ___ beliefs in a persuasive speech is often better than trying to change their core beliefs.
Peripheral
100
Another word for "word choice" is ___
Diction
100
All teenagers are lazy.
Hasty generalization
100
A ___ is a sentence that indicates you are moving from one part of your speech to the next.
Transition
100
Hearing means passively receiving messages. Listening involves ___ the message to decide on its meaning and retaining what you've heard and understood.
Processing
200
Name one organizational pattern that can be used with a fact claim.
Causal, comparison, categorical
200
The figurative meaning of a word is called its ____ meaning.
Connotative
200
Donald Trump is a bad candidate because his hair is stupid-looking.
Ad hominem/personal attack
200
A __ is a word or phrase within a sentence that helps your audience understand your speech's structure. Example: "In summary...."
Signpost
200
"Speaking that praises or blames" is called ___ rhetoric.
Epideictic
300
What are the three types of audience dispositions?
sympathetic, hostile, and neutral
300
Specialized or technical words or phrases familiar only to people in a specific field or group is called ___.
Jargon
300
When you claim that something is true because many people say it is
Ad populum/bandwagon
300
What is the last part of an introduction?
Preview of main points
300
What are the two pieces of bibliographic information which must be included in an APA in-text citation?
Author's last name and year of publication
400
What are the three types of persuasive claims?
Fact, value, policy.
400
Mispronouncing words can affect a speaker's ___
Credibility/ethos
400
When you replace your opponent's real claim with a weaker one
Strawman fallacy
400
The statement that leaves a lasting impression of your speech in your listeners' minds is called the __
Clincher
400
Of all of the prepared modes of delivery, this one usually elicits the best results.
Speaking from an outline
500
What are the three elements of persuasive speaking and what do they mean?
Ethos: Credibility Pathos: Emotional Appeal Logos: Logic/Reason
500
Oral language is more __, less __, and incorporates more ___ than written language.
adaptive, formal, repetition
500
When you claim that one thing caused another simply because it happened first
Post hoc fallacy
500
A __ organizational pattern organizes the speech around major similarities and differences between two things.
Comparison pattern
500
What is "members' tendency to accept ideas and information uncritically" within a group setting?
Groupthink