Unit III: Informative Speeches
This is a speech in which your primary goal is to inform the audience about a topic or perspective.
What is informative speech?
Name one of the four topics for informative speeches?
What is object? What is concept? What is event? What is process?
This is the proper or valid method of reasoning, how we make rational sense of the world.
What is logic?
Name one of the three types of questions persuasive speeches can seek to answer.
What is question of fact? What is question of value? What is question of policy?
Name one of the four types of speech (not informative/persuasive).
What is memorized? What is manuscript? What is extemporaneous? What is impromptu?
Name an example (other than the informative speech itself) of an informative speech we have given in this class.
What is How-To Speech? What is Intro Speech?
George Washington would be this type of topic for informative speeches.
What is object?
Name one of the three errors from which good arguments are free.
What is error of fact? What is error of fallacy? What is error of self-contradiction?
This type of audience for persuasive speeches is the easiest to PERSUADE.
What is the undecided/uncommitted audience?
You should utilize this approach regarding rhetorical appeals when giving a persuasive speech.
What is united approach?
What is manuscript? What is memorized? What is impromptu? What is extemp/extemporaneous?
The Revolutionary War would be this type of topic for informative speeches.
What is event?
This logical fallacy is particularly damaging to a speaker's personal appeal (ethos).
What is tu quoque?
Both political candidates have spent the election cycle attempting to persuade voters to vote for them in a few weeks on Election Day. The candidates have been attempting to persuade the American people on this question.
What is question of policy?
True or false: if you have any preparation time, you should jot down a quick outline for an impromptu speech.
What is true?
This type of speech has an advantage over the others because it is more conversational, spontaneous, and direct than the others.
What is extemp/extemporaneous speech?
Crossing a river by boat would be this type of topic for informative speeches.
What is process?
This rhetorical appeal is utilized when you attempt to make people more sympathetic to your logical arguments by appealing to their emotions.
What is pathos?
A lawyer in a courtroom is attempting to prove his client's innocence. He tells the jury that they must vote to acquit his client. The lawyer is attempting to persuade the jury on this type of question.
What is question of policy?
You are giving a speech as a character in a play. Your speech is meant to follow the lines and stage directions given to you in the script. You are giving this type of speech.
What is memorized?
You should avoid using this in your speeches because it is complex words or phrases which are particular to a certain profession or study which everyday people may not understand.
What is jargon?
Freedom would be this type of topic for informative speeches.
What is concept?
Mr. Tullier walks into class and says that everyone got both an A and an F on the midterm. Mr. Tullier has violated this law of logic.
What is noncontradiction?
Name the four types of audiences for persuasive speeches.
What is supportive? What is undecided/uncommitted? What is indifferent? What is opposed/hostile?
You are debating with Mr. Tullier whether he should change your grade in the gradebook. You reference the fact that you were absent when the instructions for the assignment were given; then, you ask how Mr. Tullier would feel if he was in your position.
True or false: you have committed the appeal to emotion fallacy.
What is false?