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What is an impromptu speech?
What is a type of speech where the speaker delivers a speech with minimal or no preparation time.
What is a question of Policy?
What is a question about whether a course of action should be taken or not taken?
What is an informative speech?
What is a type of speech focused on conveying knowledge and information to the audience?
Name 2 of the most common emotional appeals.
What are (accepting multiple answers) fear, compassion, pride, anger, guilt, and reverence?
True or False: Perceptions of a speaker's credibility are under their control.
What is False. The audience is in control of how they perceive a speaker's credibility.
What is a hesitation strategy?
What is a technique that allows speakers to maintain fluency as they organize their thoughts?
What is a question of fact?
What is a question about the truth or falsity of an assertion?
What is something you should avoid doing with language in informative speaking?
What is abstraction and vague language?
What is the greek term for emotional appeals?
What is pathos?
What are the 2 components of credibility?
What are character and competence?
What does PREP stand for?
What is Point, Reason, Example, Point?
What is a question of value?
What is a question about the worth, rightness, morality, and so forth of an idea or action?
What is personalization?
What is to present one’s ideas in human terms that relate in some fashion to the experience of the audience?
What are changes in pitch called?
What are inflections?
What is causal reasoning?
What is reasoning that establishes a relationship of cause and effect.
About how much of your time should an introduction and conclusion take in an impromptu speech (added together)?
What is 30-40%?
What is a persuasive speech?
What is a speech focused on creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions?
What is something you should avoid doing with information in informative speaking?
What is providing too much technical information the audience isn't familiar with?
What do we call the motion of a speaker's hands and arms during a speech?
What are gestures?
Name 2 fallacies and describe each.
What are (accepting multiple answers): hasty generalization, false cause, invalid analogy, bandwagon, red herring, ad hominen, etc.
What are bridging phrases?
What are phrases that allow the speaker to talk while they are actually thinking about their speech content.
What is the difference between denotative and connotative meaning?
What is denotative is a literal dictionary definition of a word, whereas a connotative meaning is the emotions or associations in a word?
What are the 3 questions you should be asking yourself about your informative speech?
What are: Is my information communicated accurately? Is my information communicated clearly? Is my information made meaningful and interesting to the audience?
What is the average speaking rate of an American speaker?
What is 120-150 words a minute?
What is reasoning from principle?
What is reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.