It's All About the Delivery
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sentence or passage.
What is an Alliteration?
An infinitive phrase that builds upon the speaker’s general purpose to clearly indicate precisely what the goal of a given speech is.
What is the Special Purpose Statement?
An organizational pattern for speeches in which the main points are arranged in time order.
What is the Chronological Pattern of Organization?
The resources beyond the speech itself that a speaker uses to enhance the message conveyed to the audience.
What are Presentation Aids?
A speech designed to address and engage the context and audience’s emotions on a specific occasion.
What is a Special Occasion Speech?
Any formal system of gestures, signs, sounds, and symbols used as a means of communicating thought, either through written, enacted, or spoken means.
What is Language?
The broad, overall goal of a speech; to inform, to persuade, to entertain, etc.
What is General Purpose?
An organizational pattern for speeches in which the main points are arranged according to movement in space or direction.
What is called the Spatial Pattern?
This is a pictorial representation of the relationships of quantitative data using dots, lines, bars, pie slices, etc.
What is a Graph?
A mini-speech given by the host of a ceremony that introduces another speaker and his or her speech
What is a Speech of Introduction?
An analogy where the two things under comparison are not essentially the same.
What is Figurative (analogy)?
A statement that contains or summarizes a speech’s main points
What is the Central Idea Statement?
A phrase or sentence that connects various parts of a speech and shows the relationship between them.
What are Connectives?
Drawings or sketches that outline and explain the parts of an object, process, or phenomenon that cannot be readily seen.
What are Diagrams?
A speech designed not only to make an audience experience emotional arousal (fear, sadness, joy, excitement) but also to motivate the audience to do something with that emotional arousal.
What is a Motivational Speech?