The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions.
What is persuasion?
100
This factor of public speaking strongly affects the speaker's perceived credibility.
What is delivery?
100
A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
What is a speech of introduction?
200
"Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express the idea."
What is clutter?
200
The portion of the whole audience that the speaker most wants to persuade.
What is target audience?
200
The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
What is credibility?
200
A speech that presents someone with a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition.
What is a speech of presentation?
300
"Rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, wise and foolish, virtuous and vicious, man and woman-- it is ever the same, each sound must depend wholly on itself."
What is parallelism?
300
A persuasive speech in which the speaker's goal is to convince an audience that a given policy is desirable without encouraging the audience to take action in support of the policy.
What is a speech to gain passive agreement?
300
Evidence and reasoning are two major elements of this appeal.
What is logos?
300
A speech that gives thanks for a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition.
What is a speech of acceptance?
400
Language that does not stereotype, demean, or patronize people on the basis of gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or other factors.
What is inclusive language?
400
Need, plan, and practicality.
What are three basic issues of questions on policy?
400
An error in reasoning from specific instances, in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
What is a hasty generalization?
400
A speech that pays tribute to a person, a group of people, an institution, or an idea.
What is a commemorative speech?
500
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
500
Attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, action.
What is Monroe's Motivated Sequence?
500
A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
What is a red herring?
500
Our upcoming award speeches are examples of these two speeches.
What is an award of presentation and an award of acceptance?