This statement is a signpost that happens near the end of your introduction.
What is the Preview Statement?
100
This method is used when a speaker speaks from memory, without the use of notes.
What is memorized speaking?
100
The most important aspect of physical delivery in North America, this provides you with real-time feedback about how your speech is coming across to your listeners.
What is eye contact?
100
Saving your most important main idea for the last part of the body of the speech is known as using the principle of ____________.
What is recency?
200
If your central idea has natural divisions, it is best to use this organizational pattern.
What is Topical Organization?
200
An effective _____ will summarize the speech and provide closure.
What is the conclusion?
200
This method is used when giving a speech without preparing in advance.
What is impromptu speaking?
200
This term refers to loudness in voice.
What is volume?
200
Facts and statistics are examples of this type of evidence.
What is hard evidence?
300
The following list of main ideas represents this organizational pattern:
I. The national debt is too high.
II. We need to raise taxes in order to pay down the national debt.
What is the Problem-Solution organizational pattern?
300
This attention-getting device is another word for "a brief story that is often based on fact."
What is an anecdote?
300
This technique is used when one speaks from a written or memorized outline, but without memorization or reading.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
300
This term refers to how fast or slow one is talking.
What is rate?
300
Words and gestures that allow you to move smoothly from one idea to the next throughout your speech.
What are signposts?
400
This organizational pattern uses location and direction.
What is Spatial Organization?
400
This attention-getting device is intended to provoke thought rather than elicit an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
Usually a poor way to deliver a speech, this method is used when reading a speech directly from notes.
What is manuscript speaking?
400
"Parade rest", the "broken wing" and the "fig leaf" are examples of ______________?
What are gestures?
400
Communication other than through written or spoken language that creates meaning for someone.
What is nonverbal communication?
500
The following list of main ideas represents which organizational pattern?
I. Harvest the grapes.
II. Prepare the grapes.
III. Ferment the grapes.
IV. Press the grapes.
V. Age the wine.
What is Chronological Organization?
500
Finishing a story or reminding the audience about the startling statistic you presented earlier in the speech are examples of what technique to provide closure?
What are "references to the introduction"?
500
This method requires early preparation using many notes, repeating using less notes, until a final rehearsal using brief notes.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
500
A nonverbal ___________ may be used when one physically moves while discussing a new idea or part in a speech.
What is a nonverbal transition?
500
In a speech outline, these are often indicated by Roman numerals.