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the attitude of speakers toward their topic and audience.
What is Tone?
the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.
What is Pitch?
to discuss the ways in which two things are different.
What is Contrast?
giving details in the order in which they are presented.
What is Sequencing?
to discuss the ways in which two things are similar and different.
What is Compare?
to make judgments you need to use details given, as well as your beliefs, to make and confirm your opinions about a speaker or situations presented.
What is Making Judgement?
the speaker ask questions, repeat words and phrases, stress certain words, use a sarcastic tone, and seeming to directly address specific members of the audience.
What is the Speaker's Techniques?
the pattern in which the information is organized, often using helpful transitional expressions: 1. Simple enumeration. 2. Generalizations, assertions, inferences, plus supporting examples. 3. Time order or sequence. 4. Cause and effect. 5. Comparison and contrast.
What is Speaker's Organizational Patterns?
the atmosphere of a recording; the emotion or feeling that the recording is trying to make you feel.
What is Mood?
the position or vantage point the information is being given.
What is Point of View?
the reason why something is done.
What is Purpose?
to describe the character or personality of one of the speakers in a recording.
What is Character?
a subjective way of thinking that tells only one side of a story.
What is Bias?
a form of misinformation; it is not telling lies, but selecting (or omitting) information and presenting it in a way to persuade someone to adopt a particular point of view.
What is Propaganda?
an enthusiastic statement presented as a fact, although it is not necessarily true and no evidence is used to support it.
What is Assertion?
a general statement or rule that is so attractive that listeners will not challenge it.
What is Glittering Generality?
to link an item, person or event with another.
What is Testimonial?
to pin a negative label on someone or something you want others to dislike so that the person or thing will automatically be rejected or condemned.
What is Name Calling?
to act like common, ordinary people.
What is Plain Folks?
to present to listeners only those details that favour the positive side of an issue.
What is Card Stacking?
to present a dreaded circumstance and follow it up with a solution to avoid that horrible event.
What is Fear?
the premise may be accurate, but the conclusion is not; a twisting of logic, and is therefore a fallacy.
What is Logical Fallacies?
A generalization that is not followed by evidence that supports its accuracy.
What is Unsupported Generalization?
Language which causes people to feel emotional.
What is Emotive Language?
when you use information from the text, along with personal experience or knowledge, to help you understand the information that you have been given.
What is Speaker’s Inference?