What is to increase the audience's awareness and understanding by imparting knowledge.
100
A stated position, with support for or against an idea or issue.
What is an argument?
200
The supporting material you have gathered to fill out or justify the main points and lead the audience to accept the purpose of the speech.
What are supporting points?
200
Language that relies on unfounded assumptions, negative descriptions, or stereotypes of a given group's age, class, gender, disability, geographic, ethnic, racial or religious characteristics.
What is biased language?
200
"Uh," "hmmm," "you know," "I mean," "it's like," and "anyways." These are used to cover pauses in a speech.
What are vocal fillers?
200
Defines something by explaining what it does.
What is the operational definition?
200
This statement declares a state of affairs. Often presented as a thesis statement.
What is a claim?
300
Words, phrases or sentences that tie the speech ideas together and enable the speaker to move smoothly from one point to the next.
What are transitions?
300
The willingness to learn about other cultures and gradually reshape your thinking and behavior in response to what you've learned.
What is cultural intelligence?
300
The clarity or forcefulness with which sounds are made, regardless of whether they are pronounced correctly.
What is articulation?
300
The goal of persuasive speaking.
What is to influence audience choices.
300
Help to support a claim and to substantiate in the audience's mind the link between the claim and the evidence. Show why the link between the claim and evidence is valid.
What are warrants?
400
The physical process of plotting the speech points on the page in a hierarchical order of importance.
What is outlining?
400
The arrangement of words, phrases or sentences in a similar form.
What is parallelism?
400
How something is said, not what is said.
What is paralanguage?
400
A means of persuasion by appealing to listeners' emotions.
What is pathos?
400
One of the three types of claims.
What is claims of fact, value or policy?
500
The logical placement of ideas relative to their importance to one another.
What is the principle of coordination and subordination?
500
Similes, metaphors, and analogies. These make striking comparisons that help listeners visualize, identify with, and understand the speaker's ideas.
What are figures of speech?
500
One of the four functions of nonverbal communication in delivery.
What is clarify verbal messages, facilitate feedback, establish relationships between speaker and audience or establish speaker credibility?
500
A theory of persuasion that says that each of us consciously evaluates the potential costs and benefits associated with taking a particular action.
What is the expectancy-outcome values theory?
500
One of the three types of warrants.
What is motivational, authoritative or substantive?