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Audience Analysis
Speech Organization
Developing Your Speech
Listening to Speeches
Ethical & Free Speech
100
Questions that offer alternatives from which to choose, such as true/false, agree/disagree, or multiple-choice questions.
What are closed-ended questions?
100
Supporting material based mainly on opinion or inference; includes hypothetical illustrations, descriptions, explanations, definitions, and analogies.
What is soft evidence?
100
The overarching goal of a speech--to inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is general purpose?
100
The process by which receivers select, attend to, create meaning from, remember, and respond to senders' messages.
What is listening?
100
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
What is the First Amendment?
200
Statistical information about the age, race, gender, sexual orientation, educational level, and religious views of an audience.
What is demographics?
200
A verbal or nonverbal signal that a speaker is moving from one idea to the next.
What is a signpost?
200
Throughout all steps of the speech making process, the speaker should always consider __________.
What is the audience?
200
Words, images, and behaviors that create meaning.
What are symbols?
200
Presenting someone else's words or ideas as though they were one's own.
What is plagiarism.
300
The assumption that one's own cultural perspectives and methods are superior to those of other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
A statement in the body of a speech that introduces and outlines ideas that will be developed as the speech progresses.
What is an internal preview?
300
A creative problem-solving technique used to generate many ideas.
What is brainstorming?
300
The use of symbols to create meaning to achieve a goal.
What is rhetoric?
300
An audience's perception of a speaker as competent, knowledgeable, dynamic, and trustworthy.
What is credibility?
400
A person's perceived importance and influence based on income, occupation, and education level.
What is socioeconomic status?
400
Organization of the natural divisions in a central idea according to recency, primacy, complexity, or the speaker's discretion.
What is topical organization?
400
The central idea of a speech plus a preview of the main idea.
What is a blueprint?
400
The process of using a method or standards to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of messages.
What is rhetorical criticism?
400
Actively being sensitive to the feelings, needs, interests, and backgrounds of other people.
What is accommodation?
500
Examining the attitudes, beliefs, values, and other psychological information about an audience in order to develop a clear and effective message.
What is psychological audience analysis?
500
Outside sources that can be integrated into your speech, such as electronic documents, photocopies, and note cards.
What is supporting material?
500
Wording of a specific purpose in terms of desired audience behavior.
What is a behavioral objective?
500
A theory that suggests that listeners find it difficult to concentrate and remember when their short-term working memories are full.
What is "Working Memory Theory of Listening"?
500
A behavior, such as flag burning, that is viewed by law as nonverbal communication and is subject to the same protections and limitations as verbal speech.
What is a speech act?