Speech Organization Basics
Name one of the three parts of a typical speech
What is introduction? What is body? What is conclusion?
The subject of your speech, and the most broad part of the planning/outline phase
What is topic?
You list these in your introduction to let the audience know how you will be providing details about your topic.
What are main points/main ideas?
Each of your body paragraphs should center around one of the main points found in this part of the planning/outlining process.
What is main/central idea?
The first part of the conclusion, which restates the main points and topic from the introduction, as well as your thesis.
What is summary?
The part of your speech in which you make your first impression on the audience, present your topic, and preview the main points you will use to discuss said topic.
What is introduction?
Once you have chosen a topic, this is the next thing you need to determine in the speech preparation process (should be formatted as "to persuade the audience _______" or "to inform the audience ________")
What is specific purpose statement?
This is the first part of your introduction, in which you get the audience initially engaged in your topic. This can be done through a story, a scenario, an interesting fact, a question, a startling statement, or humor.
What is attention-getter? What is hook?
The facts, examples, statistics, and other details which make up the body of your speech.
What are supporting materials?
Starting your conclusion with some version of this is important because (a. it lets the audience know you are coming to the end of the speech and (b. it sets the stage for you to summarize your main points and their relation to your topic.
What is "in conclusion", "in summary"?
This part of your speech consists of details about your main points and is typically broken up into three paragraphs, one for each point.
What is body?
This part of the speech preparation process is the most specific and involves you deciding on your topic's main points.
What is main/central idea?
This part of the introduction involves you retaining the attention you have already gotten from the audience. During this part, you get the audience's interest to go from a simple want to a need to listen to the speech.
What is the link?
You must verbally cite these types of supporting materials if you use them as a reference during your speech.
What are sources?
The final part of your conclusion, where you leave a meaningful and memorable final impression upon the audience.
What is the clincher?
The final part of your speech, in which you summarize the main points and relate them back to the topic one last time while leaving the audience with a memorable final impression.
What is conclusion?
How many points does a main/central idea usually have?
What is three?
This part of the introduction formally introduces the topic of your speech to the audience (often combined with another part into the thesis statement).
What is purpose statement?
You can use these to move naturally from one paragraph of the body to another.
What are transitions?
The clincher is similar to this part of your introduction.
What is attention-getter/hook?
Words or phrases by which you move between paragraphs in your speech without sounding unnaturally jerky and awkward or too flowy to distinguish between points beginning and ending.
What are transitions?
You are preparing to write an informative speech. You have decided to talk about basketball. Your purpose is "to inform the audience about the career of LeBron James." You will do this by discussing LeBron's shooting record, his assists, and his win-loss record. In relation to the planning/outlining process of the speech, "basketball" is this.
What is topic?
This part of your speech outlines your main points to give the audience a roadmap for how you will discuss your topic (often combined with another part into the thesis statement).
What is preview statement?
Name two of the five techniques for ordering your body paragraphs.
What is chronological? What is spatial? What is problem-solution? What is cause-effect? What is climactic?
True or false: you should only state your main points in the introduction and the body, not in the conclusion.
What is false?