Supporting your Speech
A sample or an instance that supports or illustrates a general claim.
What is an Example?
Those few ideas that are most important for your listeners to remember.
What are the Main Points?
What is an Attention-Getter?
A detailed or preparation outline, A thorough outline used to craft your speech.
What is a Working Outline?
Requires consideration of audience, occasion, and nature of one's message when choosing the language for a speech.
What is Word Choice?
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What is Diction?
Provides the meaning of a term as presented in a dictionary.
What is a Dictionary Definition?
You present the information in a time-based sequence, from beginning to end.
What is a Chronological (temporal) Pattern?
A question you want listeners to answer in their heads to get the audience's attention.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
A shorter outline that expresses your ideas in brief phrases.
What is a Speaking Outline?
A word's exact, literal dictionary definition.
What is Denotative Meaning?
Consists of information provided by other people, and is typically acquired through interviews.
What is a Testimony?
Your speech is explaining a cause and effect relationship.
What is a Casual Pattern?
A brief review of your main points.
What is a Summary?
The "meat" of your presentation.
What is the Body?
An association that comes to mind when people hear or read the word.
What is Connotative Meaning?
A piece of data or information presented in numerical form.
What is a Statistic?
Organizing the speech around major similarities and differences between two events, objects, or situations.
What is Comparison Pattern?
Something that leaves a lasting impression of your speech in your listeners' minds.
What is a Clincher?
A sentence that indicates you are moving from one part of your speech to another.
What is a Transition?
Specialized or technical words or phrases familiar only to people in a specific field or group.
What is Jargon?
An anecdote ( a brief story) or a somewhat longer account that can be used to support your main points.
What is a Narrative?
Effective when you have a diverse set of main points to support the thesis of your speech.
What is Categorical Pattern?
A brief statement of the main points you will be developing in the body of your speech.
What is a Preview?
Consider writing down a ___________ to handle any speaking challenges effectively.
What is a Delivery Reminder?
A specific word that suggests exactly what you mean.
What is a Concrete Word?