Exam 15: Speak to Inform

In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must convey to your listeners ______.

General or abstract ideas generally work best for concept or ______ speeches, as they allow for the most creative analysis and interpretation.

Help audience members process new content by using repetition (reusing the exact same words) and restatement (rephrasing an idea in different words to more fully explain it).

What does the idea of "pace, don't race" mean?

Speeches about ideas or theories lend themselves to chronological development.

______ ideas make the best topics for concept speeches.

What kinds of ideas make the best topics for concept speeches?

In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must make it memorable.

Most subjects become interesting if well adapted to the audience.

If your speech was to explain the history of an event, you would probably choose to use a ______ sequence.

Discuss and exemplify what you are attempting to answer when speaking of a person.

______ order works well for speaking of processes and procedures because it naturally reflects the sequence, approach, or series of steps used from start to finish in making or doing something.

Which of the following is an informative speaking category?

Speeches about objects lend themselves to which of the following?

Speeches about objects lend themselves to topical, spatial, and chronological organizational formats.

You must first capture and then sustain the audience's interest so that they want to hear what you will say next throughout your speech.

A ______ or physical framework enables you to discuss one major component of the object at a time.

Most subjects become interesting if ______ the audience.

A speech about an event focuses on something that happens ______, or something that happened ______.

When you are concrete, you enhance your message with sufficient specificity and detail.