Speech Organization
This organization strategy is focused on putting things in order according to time.
What is chronological?
This is the first pillar of preparation.
What is content & research?
This is the first thing you include in an introduction.
What is an attention getter?
This is at the end of your speech and is meant to reinforce your main idea and make your speech memorable.
What is a conclusion?
This is something that grabs attention, builds rapport, and makes your message stick.
What is humor?
This organization strategy is focused on organizing information according to a cause-effect relationship.
What is causal?
This is the second pillar of preparation.
What is structure & organization?
This is an attention getter where you rely on an interesting phrase from an expert or famous person to capture the audience's attention.
What is a quote?
When a speaker just stops talking, it leaves the audience confused. What should the speaker do in their conclusion?
This theory to humor explains that humans laugh at the unexpected or absurd.
What is the incongruity theory?
This is the most common organization strategy for speeches and is focused on organizing according to topic.
What is topical?
This is the third pillar of preparation.
What is practice & delivery?
This is an attention-getter strategy where you tell a personal event that makes a point and captures the audience's attention.
What is tell a story or anecdote?
This is one of the biggest differences between written communication and oral communication: You have to say things multiple times.
What is repetition?
This rule to humor tells the speaker to share two normal, expected things followed by one unexpected thing.
What is the rule of three?
This is a tool that people use to prepare and organize their speech.
What is an outline?
What is content & research?
This is the second purpose or goal of an introduction where you try to get people to trust you.
What is establish credibility?
This concluding device asks the audience to do something after they finish listening to the speech.
What is a call to action?
This is the humor strategy where one states that things are less than they appear.
What is understatement?
This is the ideal number of main points that should be made during a speech.
What is 2-5?
What is structure and organization?
Steve Jobs did this in his introduction by commenting that he never finished college.
What is establish rapport?
This is something to avoid in the conclusion - when someone goes on and on about a topic without any focus.
What is rambling?
This rule to humor allows you to make fun of powerful people like Jeff Bezos, and not make fun of those less fortunate than yourself.
What is "punch up, not down"?