Audience Analysis
Organization
Rhetorical Devices
Vocab
Mass Communication
100
This is the proccess by which the speaker considers the needs and expectations of the audience that will be listening to the speech.
What is an Audience Analysis?
100
This is a system of structure and form that enables the audience to follow along easily in a speech.
What is Organization?
100
This is a question that is intended for effect and does not really demand a verbal response.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
100
This is the Greek word for Character.
What is Ethos?
100
A label for every person in a group based on a preconcieved idea as to what the group represents.
What are stereotypes?
200
These are the statistical characteristics of human populations.
What are Demographics?
200
This is a tool in which helps you and your audience visually organize your speech.
What is a visual aid?
200
This is a reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea.
What are Allusions?
200
The process of sending and receiving messages.
What is communication?
200
The evidence at hand. It may suggest a conclusion, but it does not prove it.
What is Circumstantial evidence?
300
This is an inner drive, need or impulse that causes a person to act.
What is Motivation?
300
This is a statement defining or expressing the purpose of a speech.
What is Thesis?
300
The repitition of the sounds at the beginnings of two or more words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
300
The process of sending and receiving messages.
What is Communication?
300
This is a form of reasoning in which one argues from generalizations to a specific instance.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
This is a reaction that the receiver gives to a message offered by the sender.
What is Feedback?
400
The information that supports and reinforces the main headings of a speech, though it is not as specfic as details.
What is supporting material?
400
A method of saying more that what is true, or exaggerating, for the sake of emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
400
This is the use of facial expression or body movements use to express attitudes or moods about a person, situation, or idea.
What is Nonverbal Communication?
400
This is a comparison of two things that are not really the same.
What is False Analogy?
500
These are the varying groups that one must adjust their speech to.
What are Audience Types?
500
The beginning of a speech; it contains the attention-getter, the link statement, the thesis statement, and frequently a preview statement.
What is Introduction?
500
This is a contrasting of ideas by means of parallel arangement of words, phrases, etc.
What is an antithesis?
500
This is an expression that is by ddefinition.
What are Truisms?
500
An argument that assumes whatever is trying to be proven is already true.
What is begging the question?