Speak Up! Chapter 10 (Key Terms and Review Questions)

Briefly explain the five major functions of a good introduction.

Gain your audience's attention, signals your thesis, shows the relevance of the topic for your audience, establishes your credibility, and previews your main points.

Describe seven specific strategies you can use to create and attention-getting introduction.

Tell a story or an anecdote, offer a striking or provocative statement, build suspense, let listeners know you're one of them, use humor, ask a rhetorical question, and provide a quotation.

Offer five types of memorable clinchers.

Tie your clincher to the introduction, end with a striking sentence or phrase, Highlight your thesis, conclude with an emotional message, and end with a story or an anecdote.

What three steps must you take to develop a solid conclusion?

Transition, Summarize, and Clincher.

Summary

A brief review of the speech's main points; used in the conclusion of a speech to help an audience remember what they've heard.

Preview

A brief statement of the main points a speaker will be presenting in his or her speech; tells an audience what to expect, and helps them visualize the structure of a speech.

Rhetorical Question

A question a speaker expects listeners to answer in their heads; used to capture an audience's attention and get them thinking about the speaker's topic.

Attention-Getter

Material intended to capture an audience's interest at the start of a speech. Techniques a speaker can use to get an audience's attention include telling a story or an anecdote, offering a striking or provocative statement, building suspense, letting listeners know he or she is one of them, using humor, asking a rhetorical question, or providing a quotation.

Clincher

Something that leaves a lasting impression of a speech in listeners' minds, usually used as the second element in a speech conclusion. To go out with a bang, a speaker can extend a story or an anecdote he or she used at the start of the speech, relay a new story or anecdote, end with a striking phrase or sentance, or conclude with an emotional message.