Exam 7: Integrating Support

Testimony does not work because you are taking someone else's credibility.

Which of the following is not a question you should ask yourself when assessing your examples?

A set of statistics cited in a speech can help to establish the problem's magnitude by adding ______.

How can hypothetical examples be used efficiently?

You don't need to tell your audience when an example you are using is hypothetical.

Speakers use figurative analogies to awaken the collective imagination of the audience-to prod them into accepting that two things that appear to have little, if anything, in common, actually share one or more vital similarities.

In her speech, Jean provides an overview of the symptoms of a disease, and this facilitates the audience's understanding of the respective disease. Jean uses ______.

The ______ is the number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items.

Peer or lay testimony comes from people who are not recognized as authorities, but who have firsthand experience with the subject.

How can the speaker assess the power of the testimonies used in their speech?

Literal analogies are those that compare two things that first appear to have little in common with each other.

Expert testimony is provided by those cognized as ______ on your topic.

For speeches, testimony often works well because it lets the speaker borrow someone else's ______.

Extended examples are also sometimes known as ______.

Hypothetical examples are intended to trick your listeners into believing something that is not true.

How can a speaker gauge how useful and effective statistics would be in their speech?

The primary use of ______ is to explain words and concepts.

What is peer or lay testimony?

"A horror movie is like a fairy tale on steroids" is an example of a figurative analogy.

What do statistics mean for a speech?