Exam 16: Prepare to Persuade

When deciding on a persuasive speech topic, after you have identified strong attitudes you hold about five controversial issues, what is next?

Monroe's Motivated Sequence has five phases that move the audience toward accepting and acting on a proposition of trust.

Describe the importance of values in public speaking.

A/an ______ is a mental set or predisposition that leads us to respond to or evaluate people, places, things, or events positively or negatively.

Discuss and exemplify how you define specific aims.

The final stage of Monroe's Motivated Sequence is ______ which involves telling your audience what you would like them to do.

What is the format of problem-cause-solution speeches?

The persuasive speaker aims to influence the audience's response so that receivers feel, think, or act differently than they did before the speech.

What is a refutation format?

Your persuasive speech goals represent your fallacies.

The persuasive speaker aims to influence the audience's response so that receivers feel, think, or ______ differently than they did before the speech.

______ is the deliberate attempt to change or reinforce attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.

Chronological order helps when describing issues in a matter of time passing.

The strength of the positive or negative attitude is referred to as its ______.

The question "What is moral?" would be best answered by a proposition of ______.

It is common to use a topical organization to organize speeches on questions of fact.

A proposition of ______ represents your assertion of a statement's worth.

Why should a speaker build on beliefs?

______, sometimes referred to as core beliefs, are enduring and deeply ingrained indicators of what we each feel is good or bad, right or wrong.

List a few typical propositions for policy topics.