CMM 103 Final Exam Study Guide
What is a rhetorical proof?
Proof established through interaction between the speaker in the listeners: provide support for a conclusion, but not assurance that is true
What are the seven types of purposes?
Providing you information in a perspective, agenda setting, creating positive or negative feeling, it's going to make a commitment, wakening a commitment, conversion, inducing a specific action
What are the characteristics of a main idea?
Simplest city, discreteness, parallel structure, balance, coherent, and completeness
Demographics
Size, heterogeneity, captive/voluntary, composition
What are the four elements of the rhetorical situation?
Speaker, occasion, audience, message parentheses speech
What is a ceremonial speech?
Speaking that focuses on the present and is usually concerned with praise
Extemporaneous
Speech is planned or structured with notecards,but is not memorized
What is a ceremonial roast?
Speech of tribute that both honors and pokes fun of a person
Define beliefs
Statements that listeners regards to as true
What are the persuasive goals?
Strengthening a commitment, weakening a commitment, total conversion, call to action
What are the drawbacks of computer-generated visual aids?
The computer could fail or die
Define decorum
The fittingness or appropriateness of the occasion. A decorous speech is one that fits the occasion
Perception
The interpretation or understanding given to a speech, the meanings it has for the lsiteners
Define perceptions
The interpretation or understanding given to a speech: the meaning for listeners
What is the boomerang effect?
The opposite effect from that which is speaker intent. This can happen if an appeal is so powerful it overwhelms the audience
Memorized
The opposite of speaking impromptu call on speaker pays close attention to prepared text and commits it to memory
What is strategic planning?
The process of identifying your goals and determining how best to achieve them
Define denial
The refusal to accept the claim in a message
What are the functions of an introduction?
To gain the attention and interest from your audience, to view your topic favorably, clarify the purpose or thesis of your speech, preview development of your topic
Define personal interests
What individual regards as interesting or important
Define reporting from the informative strategies
When you relate what happened with little analysis or interpretation
Situational distraction
Your new external distractions at the speaker cannot control, can we do a closing or baby crying
What are the types of reasonings?
Example, analogy, cause, testimony, narrative
What are the types of reasoning?
Example, analogy, sign, testimony, narrative
What are the types of delivery?
Extemporaneous, manuscript, memorized
Define hearing
Hey since you're a process where you hear sounds but don't retain would've said
What is the difference between a captive involuntary audience?
I want her audience wants to listen but A captive audience is forced to
Define impromptu
I'm out of presentation in which a speaker has done little to no preparation for the speech
What are the types of delivery?
Impromptu, manuscript, extemporaneous
What is the order transitions should follow when being made?
Internal summary, link, internal preview
what are the benefits of using visual aids?
It makes it interesting, and Hanses speaker credibility, improve comprehension and retention
Compartmentalization
Keeping 2 conflicting beliefs separate so that one need not be conscious of the conflict between them
What are the drawbacks of using a visual aid?
Make sure they do not obstruct theaudiences view, you need to talk to the audience instead of the board
What dies the rhetorical situation refer to?
Occasion, Audience, speaker, message
What are the types of supporting material?
Personal experience, common knowledge, direct observations, examples, documents, statistics, and testimony
What are the types of supporting material?
Personal experience, knowledge direct observation examples documents statistics testimony
What are the types of outlines?
Preparation and presentation
Transitions
And intern a summary of the point being concluded, I want to the connected, my main point, and internal Preview leading to a new point
Define listener distraction
Any internal distraction could be an audience member daydreaming or feeling hungry
What is the order for the motivated sequence?
1. Attention step, 2. Need step 3. Satisfaction step 4. Visual step 5. Action step
What are the characteristics of main points
Discrete balanced simple complete coherent
Define audience culture
Diversity, interest, believes, understanding, common knowledge
What is motivated sequence?
A persuasive message that is organized in terms of the audiences motivation rather than in terms of the specific subject
define values
A positive or negative judgment that was your supply to a person, place, object, event, or idea
What are you were eulogies ?
A special form of the testimonial speech, honoring someone who has died
Illusions
Brief references to something with which the audience is assumed to be familiar
How do you combat listener distractions?
By inflicting voice and being interesting
What does audience culture include?
Diversity, interests, beliefs, understanding, common knowledge
What is epideictic speaking?
Ceremonial
What are the types of organizational patterns?
Chronological, spatial, categorical, cause and effect, problem solution, comparison and contrast, residues
What are the seven basic organizational patterns?
Chronological, spatial,categorical, cause-and-effect, problem - solution, comparison and contrast, residues
What are the informative strategies?
Defining, reporting, describing, explaining, demonstrating, comparing
What are the six informative strategies?
Defining, reporting, describing, explaining, demonstrating, comparing
What are the three speaking occasions,?
Deliberative, Ceremonial, and forensic