Speeches
Public Speaking Vocabulary
Basics
100

what is a speech based entirely and exclusively on facts and whose main purpose is to inform rather than persuade, amuse, or inspire?

Informative Speech

100

What is the broad, overall goal of a speech; to inform, to persuade, and to entertain?

General Purpose

100

What is language?

any formal system of gestures such as signs, sounds, and symbols used or conceived as communication

200

What is the act of convincing someone to change their belief?

Persuasion

200

What is the time, place, and reasons for an event and audience called?

Context

200

When people are the center of communication, what are they called?

Speaker and Audience

300

What is a speech designed to address and engage the context and audience’s emotions on a specific occasion?

Special Occasion

300

what is a speaker's credibility at the end of an speech?

Terminal Credibility

300

Morality, creativity, and problem-solving is?

Self-actualization

400

Comedy Central falls under what type of speech?

Special Occasion

400

 What is the act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the person called?

Plagiarism

400

What is an active process where you are specifically making an effort to understand, process, and retain information?

Listening

500

What speech uses a proposition?

Persuasion

500

Having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating something is called? 

Probative

500

An organized, face to face, prepared, intentional attempt to inform, entertain, or persuade a group of people through words, delivery, and visual & audio aid is called?

Public Speaking