Roots Words
Literary Terms & Devices
Public Speaking
Persuasion & MMS
Wild Card
100
This form of the root 'viv' means to bring back to life.
What is 'revive'?
100
In this type of speech, a character in a play speaks private thoughts aloud, either alone on stage or when other characters are not supposed to be able to hear them.
What is a soliloquy?
100
When you organize a speech into segments the audience can easily process and remember, or when you are eating an entire gallon of ice cream in one sitting, you are doing this.
What is chunking?
Bonus: How many categories does the human brain remember most easily?
100
This persuasive appeal is often characterized in advertising by unfortunate puppies and happy families.
What is pathos?
100
This is the number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is 14?
200
This form of 'flect' or 'flex' means you can bend easily.
What is you are 'flexible'?
200
In this dramatic device, a character speaks directly to the audience (and other characters on stage cannot hear).
What is an aside?
200
This is the first part of your speech, which grabs the audience's attention.
What is a hook?
Bonus: List a few types of hooks.
200
When advertisers or public speakers invoke charts, graphs, and statistics, they are using this persuasive technique.
What is logos?
200
Use this test to determine the quality of a source.
Bonus: List the meaning of the acronym.
What is CRAAP?
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
300
As we age, and our bones are more likely to break and shatter, we can be described as _______, a form of fract or frag.
What is 'frail'?
300
Shakespeare is famous for this type of dialogue, which does not rhyme and contains 10 syllables per line (5 stressed and 5 unstressed).
What is blank verse?
Also described as "unrhymed iambic pentameter"
300
Picture the iceberg metaphor: speech (what you say) represents this percentage of what you communicate.
What is 7% - the tip of the iceberg!
Bonus: What is the other 93%?
300
When an advertisement features a typical family having a picnic, drinking iced tea, and enjoying their reasonably priced patio set, it's an example of this type of persuasive technique.
What is plain folks?
Bonus: Give an example of 'transfer' and 'snob appeal.'
300
This character questioned, "...what light through yonder window breaks?"
Bonus: State the next line, too!
Who is Romeo?
400
To join or link sentences, you could use this part of speech.
What is a 'conjunction'?
400
This group of cast members reflects on the actions in the play, often explaining the events to the audience.
What is a chorus?
400
True or False: Visual aids are mostly notes to help speakers manage their presentations.
What is "FALSE."
Bonus: Who are visual aids actually created to assist?
400
It's the type of persuasive technique used in this ad.
What is patriotism?
400
This "character" delivered two, 14-line speeches.
Who/what is the chorus?
Bonus: Where did these prologues appear in the play?
500
The root word in "rupture" means _______.
Bonus: Use another word made from this root in a sentence.
What is 'to break'?
Another example: A text message will disrupt class.
500
Mercutio famously uses this dramatic device when he captivates Romeo and his crew with tales of a dreamy visitor.
What is a monologue?
Bonus: Who's the dreamy visitor?
500
This is the non-verbal, implied, or interpretive meaning of communication.
What is connotative?
Bonus: What is the opposite of connotative?
500
Fast food companies frequently use this persuasive technique when they give customers free fries with the purchase of a large sandwich.
What is bribery?
500
This character asks, "What, art thou drawn and among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, ..."
Who is Tybalt?
600
Forms of these root words may be used to convey the seemingly contradictory meanings 'go' or 'yield.'
What is 'cede,' 'ceed,' or 'cess'?
For example:
If you exceed the speed limit, you will get a ticket.
If you concede the election, you yield to your opponent.
600
When the Nurse blurts out a funny line or bawdy joke, she is employing this literary function.
What is comic relief?
600
This term refers to the use of time in a speech (speed and length of speaker's presentation).
What is chronemics?
600
These are the five steps of Monroe's Motivated Sequence.
What are Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization, and Action?
(ANSVA)
Bonus: True or False - The order of the sequence is interchangeable/does not matter.
600
This character advised, ""Take this bottle, and when you're in bed, drink this distilled liquor. Immediately, a cold and quieting liquid shall run through all your veins. Your pulse will stop. There'll be no warmth or breath to prove that you're alive."
Who is Friar Laurence?
700
If you can launch a boat in a river, the water would be considered ___________.
What is navigable?
700
This literary device is recurring throughout a work.
What is a motif?
Bonus: What are some motifs in Romeo and Juliet?
700
True or false: The speaker decodes the meaning of a speech.
What is FALSE. 
700
This persuasive appeal is in action when a speaker or advertiser touts education and experience to establish credibility and trust.
What is ethos?
700
According to the Prince in Act I, the Montagues and Capulets had disturbed the peace this many times already.
What is three (thrice)?
800
This old school water bottle keeps drinks warm.
What is a 'thermos'?
800
This type of everyday speech is without meter or rhyme, often spoken by basic characters.
What is prose?
800
List three ways to organize a speech.
What are chronologically, topically, and spatially?
800
This persuasive technique is used to set luxury brands apart and make consumers feel elite.
What is snob appeal?
800
According to our public speaking video series, these are the two overall components of public speaking.
Bonus: Can both be learned?
What is art and science.
And YES!
900
These related root words indicate 'sound' or 'voice.'
What are 'phon,' 'phono,' or 'phone'?
Vary the meaning of these roots by pairing with different prefixes:
megaphone, saxophone, cacophony, homophone
900
This rhyme scheme is classically considered a "Shakespearean Sonnet."
Bonus: What do you call the 'gg'?
What is abab, cdcd, efef, gg?
What is a rhyming couplet?
900
From our Speaker's Intent graphic organizer, these are the three main functions of speeches.
What are inform, persuade, and promote social cohesion?
900
Ads that encourage FOMO (fear of missing out) use this type of persuasive technique.
What is bandwagon?
900
This is how quickly an audience makes a first impression/passes judgement. Yikes!
What is 30 seconds?
1000
This root word can be used to describe where actual tree roots grow. The underground roots would be considered ________.
What are 'terr' and 'subterranean'?
1000
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,"
predominantly uses an example of this literary device.
Bonus: Who said it?
What is personification?
Who is Romeo (after he says, "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun")?
1000
Three of the five ways we discussed to combat stage fright include...
1. Be prepared
2. Practice
3. Have a back-up/security blanket
4. Reduce fear of audience (relate)
5. Relax with breathing techniques
1000
True or False: You should use MMS for both persuasive and informative speeches.
What is FALSE?
Bonus - True or False: MMS is most useful for a speech that seeks immediate action.
True!
1000
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