Informative Speaking
What is the main goal of informative speaking?
To give the audience information or help them understand a topic.
What is the main goal of persuasive speaking?
To influence the audience’s beliefs, attitudes, values, or behavior.
What are Aristotle’s three persuasive appeals?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Name one strategy a speaker can use to inform an audience.
Description, definition, explanation, demonstration, or narration.
True or false: A persuasive speech always has to convince everyone in the audience to agree.
False. It aims to influence the audience, but not everyone has to agree.
Which appeal focuses on the speaker’s credibility and trustworthiness?
Ethos
A speaker shows the class how to make a paper airplane, step by step. Which informative strategy are they using?
Demonstration.
If someone gives a speech trying to convince students to stop vaping, is that informative or persuasive speaking? Explain why.
Persuasive, because the speaker is trying to influence behavior.
A speaker tells a sad story to make the audience feel sympathy. Which appeal are they using, and why?
Pathos, because it appeals to the audience’s emotions.
A student explains climate change to an audience that knows very little about it. Name two things the speaker should do to make the speech effective, and explain why.
Use simple language, explain unfamiliar terms, adapt to the audience’s knowledge, give concrete examples, or use visual aids. These help the audience understand the information.
What is the difference between ethical persuasion and manipulation?
Ethical persuasion uses honest, fair arguments; manipulation relies on deception or misleading tactics to influence people.
A doctor explains a health issue using research, shares their professional experience, and tells a story about a patient. Identify the three appeals.
Logos = research; ethos = professional experience; pathos = the patient story if it appeals to the audience’s emotions.