Chapter 9
This widely-used presentation software, first released in the 1990s, is often criticized for its "linearity" and its tendency to encourage slides filled with bulleted text. However, it remains one of the most commonly known tools for creating slide presentations.
What is PowerPoint?
____ is any formal system of gestures, signs, sounds, and symbols used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, either through written, enacted, or spoken means.
What is language?
A group of experts discussing a topic in front of an audience; focus on discussion.
What is a Panel?
One idea, policy, or action is better, more just, ethical, etc. than others is the proposition of …
What is a value?
drawing conclusions about an object or phenomenon based on its similarities to something else
What is analogical reasoning?
These are resources beyond just words and delivery that speakers use to enhance their message, including visual, audible, olfactory, and even gustatory elements.
What are presentation aids?
Language that uses metaphors and similes to compare things that may not be literally alike is ______
What is figurative Language?
statements that are irrefutable-cannot be argued
What are facts
The central idea statement in a persuasive speech; a statement made advancing a judgment or opinion
What is a proposition?
A form of inductive reasoning that draws conclusions based on recurring patterns or repeated observations.
What is generalization?
This is one of the key benefits of using presentation aids in a speech, helping to improve the audience’s understanding, memory, and engagement by providing a visual or clear explanation of complex concepts.
What is "enhancing audience understanding and retention"?
_____ are language devices often used to make something unpleasant sound tolerable.
What are euphemisms
Type of speech generally determines organization with some ___?
freedom
The traditional views of persuasion
What is Logos, Ethos, and Pathos?
A fallacy that assumes that because something is popular it is good, correct, or desirable
What is a bandwagon?
This category of visual aids is used to display data or illustrate processes, often through formats like line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, or decision trees, helping to clarify complex information for the audience.
What are charts and graphs?
_____ is language that evokes many different visual images in the minds of your audience
What is abstract language?
When choosing informative speech topics what do you want to avoid?
false or faux topics
A persuasive technique in which a speaker brings up a counterargument to their own topic and then directly refutes the claim
What are two-tailed arguments?
A type of logical fallacy where the conclusion lacks a connection to the premises
What is Non Sequitur?
These types of presentation aids, such as dry-erase boards, flipcharts, posters, and handouts, can sometimes be more effective than digital media depending on the context of your speech.
What are low-tech presentation aids?
“Give me liberty or give me death” is an example of what rhetorical technique
What is Parallelism?
Group of experts, giving series of specific informative speeches on a larger topic
Symposium
“Wyeth Daniels should be the next governor of the state” , is an example of what proposition?
Propositions of Policy
A historical fallacy with the English translation "after the fact, therefore because of the fact".
What is "Post hoc ergo propter hoc"?