One of three basic ways a speaker seeks to affect an audience: to entertain, inform, or persuade.
What is a general purpose statement
100
The division of a speech into introduction, body, and conclusion.
What is a basic speech structure.
100
Intense level of anxiety about speaking before an audience, resulting in poor performance.
What is debilitative stage fright.
100
Decline in efficiency that occurs when the rate of complexity of material is too great to manage.
What is information overload.
100
That part of an audience that must be influenced in order to achieve a persuasive goal.
What is your target audience.
200
A complete sentence that describes precisely what a speaker wants to accomplish as a result of the speech.
What is a specific purpose statement.
200
Brief statement of supporting material in a speech.
What is a citation.
200
A speech that is planned in advance but presented in a direct, conversational manner.
What is an extemporaneous speech.
200
A phrase that emphasizes the importance of upcoming material in a speech.
What is a signpost.
200
Explanation of attitude change that posits that opinions will change only in small increments and only when the target opinions lie within the receiver's latitudes of acceptance and noncommitment.
What is the social judgment theory.
300
A complete sentence describing the central idea of a speech.
What is a thesis statement.
300
Example that asks an audience to imagine an object or event.
What is a hypothetical example.
300
The process of pronouncing all the necessary parts of a word.
What is articulation.
300
A simple, concise, spoken statement of the source of your evidence.
What is a vocal citation.
300
The believability of a speaker or other source of information.
What is speaker credibility.
400
Audience characteristics that can be analyzed statistically, such as age, gender, education, group membership, and so on.
What are demographics.
400
Organizing pattern for a speech that describes an unsatisfactory state of affairs and then proposes a plan to remedy the problem.
What is a problem-solution pattern.
400
The articulation error that involves overlapping the end of one word with the beginning of the next.
What is slurring.
400
Listener activity during speech; technique to increase audience involvement.
What is audience participation.
400
Fallacious reasoning that sets up false alternatives, suggesting that if the inferior one must be rejected, then the other must be accepted.
What is the either-or fallacy.
500
A consideration of characteristics including the type, goals, demographics, beliefs, attitudes, and values of listeners.
What is audience analysis.
500
Phrase that connects ideas in a speech by showing how one relates to the other.
What are transitions.
500
The articulation error that involves replacing part of a word with an incorrect sound.
What is substitution.
500
Speeches or presentations that clarify ideas and concepts already known but not understood by an audience.
What are speeches of explanation.
500
Persuasion that disguises or deemphasizes the speaker's persuasive goal.