"My life sucks... My life sucks... My life sucks..." is an example of this type of language device.
What is Repitition?
100
A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
What is a Speech of Introduction?
100
A specific case used to illustrate or represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences, or the like.
What is an Example?
100
The major points developed in the body of a speech.
What are Main Points?
100
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
What is Audience-Centeredness?
200
"Strong as an ox" is an example of this type of language device.
What is Simile?
200
A speech that presents someone a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition.
What is a Speech of Presentation?
200
The number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.
What is the Mode?
200
The number of recommended Main Points.
What are 2-5 Main Points?
200
A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person, policy, belief,institution, etc.
What is an Attitude?
300
"Rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, wise and foolish..." is an example of this type of language device.
What is Parallelism?
300
A speech that gives thanks for a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition.
What is an Acceptance Speech?
300
Quotations or phrases from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic.
What is Peer Testimony?
300
A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
What is Spatial Order?
300
An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
What is a Key-Word Outline?
400
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" is an example this type of language device.
What is Alliteration?
400
A speech that pay tribute to a person, a group of people, an institution, or an idea.
What is a Commemorative Speech?
400
A statement told in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
What is Quoting Out of Context?
400
"To inform my audience about the achievements of Josephine Baker," is an example of this single infinitive phrase.
What is a Specific Purpose?
400
The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.
What is Frame of Reference?
500
"The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men..." is an example of this type of language device.
What is Imagery?
500
The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions.
What is Persuasion?
500
"Kenneth Change, a science reporter for the New York Times, reported in the paper's March, 13, 2011, issue that..." is an example of this action during a speech.
What is Citing Sources Orally?
500
What a speaker wants the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
What is Residual Message?
500
Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that what is true for the first case is also true for the second.