Exam 11: Developing Your Speech

The primary advantage of illustrations as supporting material is _____.

What should be the central element in all aspects of preparing a speech?

Audience-centered public speakers are sensitive to the diversity of the audience.

Speakers use a(n) _____ when they want to help an audience understand an unfamiliar concept by demonstrating how it is similar to something the audience already understands.

Darci gave a speech with the central idea, "C. S. Lewis' writings were influenced by the reading he did throughout his life." Her main points were "As a child, C. S. Lewis enjoyed books with animal characters." "As an adolescent, C. S. Lewis enjoyed books on Norse mythology." "As an adult, C. S. Lewis studied Medieval Literature." The main points follow what type of sequence?

LexisNexis Academic is an example of a full-text database.

The mistaken belief that the audience is completely aware of the speaker's perspiration, shaking hands, and knocking knees is called the _____ of transparency.

Becoming more comfortable with public speaking each time you make a speech is a process known as _____.

Using the opinions of a person who is present during an event, for example, a high school teacher who experiences a solar eclipse for the first time, is providing _____ testimony.

A search which allows you to enclose phrases in quotation marks or parentheses so that it yields only those sites on which all words or the phrase appear in that order and eliminates sites that contain the words at random is known as _____.