Online Speech Practice Questions

What three things are required to evoke the emotion of fear from an audience? A bad or painful event, coming in the future, that is looming or near Concern for others, the capacity to act, and incentive to take action An enemy or threat, a past that haunts the audience, and guilt A villain, a hero, and an obstacle to overcoming the villain

A bad or painful event, coming in the future, that is looming or near

Opening my eyes wide and raising both eyebrows while saying "Yes!" is an example of what kind of nonverbal function? Accentuation Contradiction Regulation Adaptation Reinforcement

Accentuation

A gesture that is a nervous habit, like playing with your hair, is an example of what kind of nonverbal function? Adaptation Contradiction Regulation Reinforcement Accentuation

Adaptation

When building powerful imagery, what is the best way to use adverbs?

Find a more precise and powerful verb

What are the four most important elements when building an audience avatar? Location, income, values, and children Age, sex, education, and religion Goals, values, fears, and challenges Behaviors, values, education, and religion

Goals, values, fears, and challenges

When looking for which values to express to your audience, which of the following is the best strategy? Find a connection between what you genuinely hold as high values and what the audience holds as high values Look first for your audience's nominal values then use Boolean values to connect them to your purpose Adapt to your audience's high values and focus on those, not your own values Focus on your own high values and do not worry about your audience's values

NOT C

What does antithesis refer to? Inverting or scrambling syntax Repetition of phrases Repetition of sounds Pairing opposing terms

Pairing opposing terms

Holding up a single index finger while saying "the first main point" is an example of what kind of nonverbal function? Adaptation Reinforcement Accentuation Regulation Contradiction

Reinforcement

What do alliteration, assonance, and consonance all commonly refer to? Inverting or scrambling syntax Pairing opposing terms Repetition of sounds Repetition of phrases

Repetition of sounds

Having multiple points that are smaller dimension of a larger main point represents what principle of organization? Parallelism or progression Superordination and subordination Overlap Discreteness

Superordination and subordination

What does an audience need to see to feel motivating positive aspiration toward an accomplishment? That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience deserves that accomplishment, and that they do not have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience deserves that accomplishment, and that they have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience does not deserve that accomplishment, and that they have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience does not deserve that accomplishment, and that they do not have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment

That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience deserves that accomplishment, and that they have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment

What does it mean to "give imagery a turn?" Alternate back and forth between evidence-based argument and emotional imagery Use imagery with movement or changes to make a point or trigger an emotion Structure imagery with more rounded sounds like vowels and soft consonants Dedicate a portion of any online communication exclusively to building imagery

Use imagery with movement or changes to make a point or trigger an emotion