Speech Final

According to your textbook, listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it is known as ________________ listening.

Critical

There are many ways to organize informative speeches about events. If your goal is to recount the history of an event, you would most likely arrange the speech in

chronological order.

Above all, a speaker's credibility is affected by two factors:

competence and character.

According to your textbook, when you listen primarily to understand the message of a speaker (for example, taking notes in a classroom lecture), you are engaged in ________________ listening.

comprehensive

When your general purpose is to ________________, you act as a teacher or lecturer.

inform

The three most important factors to consider when determining an audience's disposition toward a speaker's topic are the audience's

interest, knowledge, and attitude.

People spend more time ________________ than in any other communication activity.

listening

A form of creating imagery in a speech that involves an implied comparison between things that are essentially different is termed

metaphor.

"To inform my audience about the different sections of a medieval cathedral" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about an

object. "

"To inform my audience how to arrange flowers like a professional florist" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about a

process.

credibility is the credibility of the speaker before she or he begins to speak.

Initial

In public speaking, the use of language should be appropriate to:

Occasion Audience Topic Speaker

List the three methods for using language clearly, as explained in your textbook:

Use familiar words Use concrete words Eliminate clutter

A speech organized with the main points following a time pattern is arranged in order.

chronological

If you were giving an informative speech about the major stages in building the Great Wall of China, you would probably organize your speech in ___ order

chronological.

"To inform my audience about the beliefs of major Christian sects during the middle ages" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about a

concept

Using _____ words is the key to creating effective verbal imagery.

concrete

The _____ meaning of a word includes all of the associations and feelings the word touches off in different people.

connotative

According to your textbook, when you listen to provide emotional support for the speaker, you are engaged in ________________ listening.

empathetic

What most modern students of persuasion refer to as credibility, Aristotle referred to as

ethos

"To inform my audience about the origins of golf in the British Isles" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about an

event

When used in a persuasive speech, supporting materials such as examples, statistics, and testimony are referred to as

evidence

When used in an audience-analysis questionnaire, ______ questions are valuable because they produce clear, unambiguous answers.

fixed-alternative

The two most important ways to use language vividly are

imagery and rhythm.

In constructing an audience analysis questionnaire, you should use questions when you want to give respondents maximum leeway in answering.

open-ended

The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words is a language device called

parallelism.

When your general purpose is to ________________, you act as a partisan or an advocate.

persuade

A _____ is a systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product.

process

The major advantage of using ______ questions in an audience analysis questionnaire is that they help reveal the strength of a respondent's attitudes or feelings.

scale

A _____ is a figurative comparison that always contains the word "like" or "as."

simile

If you were giving an informative speech describing the different regions of Ireland, you would probably arrange the speech in

spatial order.

A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics is known as order.

topical

Informative speeches about concepts are usually arranged in

topical order.

Informative speeches about processes are usually arranged in either chronological or

topical order.

When you repeat the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words, you are using the language device known as

Alliteration

The _________________________ usually encapsulates in a single sentence the main points to be developed in the body of your speech.

Central idea

According to your textbook, when you listen primarily for pleasure or enjoyment, you are engaged in ________________ listening.

appreciative

Although we speak at a rate of 125 to 150 words a minute, the brain can process information at a rate of ________________ to ________________ words a minute.

400-800

Even when we think we are listening carefully, we usually grasp only about ________________ percent of a speaker's message.

50

The ______ meaning of a word is its literal or dictionary meaning.

Denotative

credibility is the credibility produced by everything the speaker says and does during the speech.

Derived

"To persuade my audience that irradiation of food is not harmful" is an example of a ________________.

Specific purpose

The ________________ reveals precisely what the speaker hopes to accomplish in his or her speech.

Specific purpose

credibility is the credibility of the speaker at the end of the speech

Terminal.