Printed Materials
These are used to go to the next point, step, or idea in a flow chart.
a. lines
b. arrows
What are arrows?
The subject you will address in your speech. It should also interest you as well.
a. topic
b. purpose
What is topic?
A type of audience that opposes the speaker's message, or a speaker personally, and so will resist listening to the speech.
a. hostile audience
b. bias
What is hostile audience ?
The process of preparing and practicing a speech to ensure confident and effective delivery
a. topic
b. memory
What is memory (presentation)?
Audience members' characteristics, including but not limited to age, gender composition, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religious orientation, socioeconomic background, and political affiliation.
a. demographics
b. background information
What is demographics?
a. map
b. pictures
What is map?
You should use these when you are moving from one point to another to connect your ideas together.
a. subpoints
b. transitions
What is transitions?
A type of audience that has neither negative nor positive opinions about a speaker or message.
a. survey
b. neutral audience
What is neutral audience?
The choice of language that will best express a speaker's ideas to the audience.
a. style
b. delivery
What is style?
Cultural background that is usually associated with shared religion, national origin, and language.
a. race
b. ethnicity
b. ethnicity
Uses words arranged in a certain format to explain ideas, concepts, or general information.
a. verbal chart
b. pie chart
What is verbal chart?
States that each main point must relate to your purpose, and each sub-point must relate to the main points that it supports.
a. sub-points
b. subordination
What is subordination?
A type of audience that already agrees with a speaker's message or holds the speaker in high esteem and thus will respond favorably to the speech.
a. sympathetic audience
b. survey
What is sympathetic audience?
The effective organization of ideas to present them to an audience
a. arrangement
b. thesis statement
What is an arrangement?
Oversimplified, often distorted views of what it means to be male or female.
a. gender stereotype
b. gender composition
What is gender stereotype?
The setting where a speaker delivers, and an audience listens, to a speech.
a. forum
b. background
What is forum?
Anything, in addition from your speech, that your audience members can see or hear that helps them understand and remember your message.
a. relaxation strategies
b. audiovisual aids
What is audiovisual aids?
A survey question that gives a respondent a set of specific answers to choose from. (True/False, Multiple choice, select all that apply, etc.)
a. fixed response questions
b. open-ended questions
What is fixed response questions?
The generation of ideas for use in a speech, including the speaker's own thoughts on the topic and ideas from other sources.
a. main points
b. invention
What is invention?
A demographic consideration that affects and audience's response to and understanding of a speaker's message.
a. sexist language
b. age
What is age?
Anything beyond spoken words that a speaker uses to help the audience understand and remember his or her message; includes presentation materials that can be seen, heard, or touched.
a. presentation aid
b. visual aid
a. thesis statement
b. rhetorical purpose
What is rhetorical purpose?
Quick audience analysis just before or during a speech, to be conducted if the makeup of an audience is different from what the speaker expected or if the audience appears confused, lost, or hostile.
a. situational audience analysis
b. interview
What is situational audience analysis?
The speaker's use of his or her voice.
a. tone
b. delivery
What is delivery?
A measure of where individuals stand in terms of financial resources, education, and occupation in relation to other individuals.
a. political affliction
b. socioeconomic status
What is socioeconomic status?