Exam 10: Beginning and Ending Your Speech

Lack of preparation is easily forgiven by the audience.

The conclusion should take the audience by surprise.

In a persuasive conclusion, it would be smart to make the audience feel guilted into action.

You can cute the audience that you are about to stop speaking by altering your voice tone and either increasing or decreasing your speaking rate.

Asking the same rhetorical question you did in the introduction is a way to create psychological balance and achieve closure in your speech.

Humor works best when it is ______.

At the end of the speech, you should strive to achieve ______.

List a few effective attention-getting techniques that can be communicated by the speaker.

The audience should be able to identify when you are making your concluding points.

There is wide agreement that opening strong is ______.

Your introduction should ______.

The conclusion should be striking and reinforce what has been covered.

The conclusion doesn't necessarily need to provide audience members with a sense of completion.

Explain why ending too abruptly in your conclusion is a pitfall.

According to speech consultant Sharon Bower, "Listeners forget ______, colorless, and complicated endings."

Discuss why it is important that your audience sees you have credible on your specific topic.

An ______ ending is an undesirable ending, as you need to carefully build and explain your concluding thoughts.

Audience members quickly form impressions of you.

Questions which require no overt answer or response and which can be curiosity arousers and suspense builders for an audience are called ______ questions.

The phrases "In conclusion," "To review," "In closing," or "Let me end by noting..." are examples of ______ in your conclusion.