The Basics of Public Speaking
The source communicates the encoded message through a _______, the medium of delivery.
A. channel
B. message
What is channel?
This is also known as chronemics.
A. body clock
B. location
What is body clock?
A word or phrase within a sentence that helps your audience understand your speeches structure.
A. signpost
B. transition
What is signpost?
Specialized or technical words or phrases familiar only to people in a specific field or group.
A. expertise
B. jargon
What is jargon?
Whose impromptu speech encouraged waking up early?
A. Cliff Stuart
B. Kell McKinsey
Who is Kell McKinsey?
A primary goal for the speech.
A. topic
B. rhetorical purpose
What is rhetorical purpose?
The objective of your speech.
A. thesis statement
B. specific purpose
What is specific purpose?
A brief statement of the main points you will be developing in the body of your speech.
A. summary
B. preview
What is preview?
The crispness or clarity of your spoken words.
A. articulation
B. pronunciation
What is articulation?
Whose impromptu speech involved the three following things: 1. prayer 2. trust 3. submission?
A. Haley Thompson
B. Luke Wilson
Who is Haley Thompson?
Faulty (and thus unsound) reasoning, in which the link between a claim and its supporting material is weak.
A. Hasty generalization
B. Fallacious reasoning
What is Fallacious reasoning?
A strategy for finding and keeping track of information to use in your speech.
A. research objectives
B. research plan
What is research plan?
A special instruction speakers include within a speaking outline to remind themselves about such things as body language, pauses, and special emphasis.
A. delivery reminder
B. decode
What is delivery reminder?
The setting where a speaker delivers, and an audience listens to, a speech.
A. diagram
B. forum
What is forum?
Whose impromptu speech was based on the quote "Never regret something that once made you smile"?
A. Kell McKinsey
B. Luke Wilson
Who is Luke Wilson?
Occurs when listeners feel overwhelmed by your message and find it too difficult to follow.
A. Defeated listening
B. Nervous listening
What is Defeated listening?
Explains the linguistic origin of the term.
A. etymological definition
B. expert definition
What is etymological definition?
Something that leaves a lasting impression of your speech in your listeners' minds.
A. anecdote
B. clincher
What is clincher?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
A. anaphora
B. antithesis
What is anaphora?
Whose impromptu speech was based on the quote, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -Laoxi?
A. Cliff Stuart
B. Robbie Wright III
Who is Cliff Stuart?
Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery make up the classical ______ of rhetoric.
A. parts
B. canons
What are canons?
Online information is found on _____________ (or social) media.
A. web
B. participatory
What is participatory?
Materials that support subpoints.
A. subordinations
B. sub-subpoints
What are sub-subpoints?
How loud or soft your voice is as you deliver a speech.
A. volume
B. projection
What is volume?
Whose impromptu speech used the example of helping an elderly lady with her groceries and being blessed with fifteen dollars?
A. Haley Thompson
B. Robbie Wright III
Who is Robbie Wright III?