Public Speaking Exam 2

Front 1

What are the three questions for an audience-centered speech?

Back 1

1. To whom am I speaking?

2. What do I want them to know, believe, or do as a result of my speech?

3. What is the most effective way of composing and presenting my speech to accomplish that aim?

Front 2

What is Identification?

Back 2

Creating a bond with their listeners by emphasizing common values and experiences. With clear, interesting and persuasive to the audience.

Front 3

What is auditory perception?

Back 3

The choice of listening or hearing.

Front 4

What are the two messages told in a speech?

Back 4

1. The one sent by the speaker.

2. The one received by the listener.

Front 5

What is a frame of reference?

Back 5

The sum of his or her needs, interests, expectations, knowledge, and experience.

Front 6

Why do people want to hear things?

Back 6

They want them to be meaningful, for them to pat attention to messages that affect their own values, beliefs, and well-being, asking "Why is this important to me?"

Front 7

What are the six types of demographic audiences?

Back 7

1. Age

2. Gender

3. Religion

4. Sexual Orientation

5. Group Membership

6. Racial, ethnic or cultural background

Front 8

What are the four different types of situational audience analysis?

Back 8

1. Size

2. Physical Setting

3. Disposition towards the topic (interest, knowledge, attitude)

4. Speaker and occasion

Front 9

What is audience centeredness?

Back 9

Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.

Front 10

What is egocentrism?

Back 10

The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being.

Front 11

What is stereotyping?

Back 11

Creating an oversimplified image of particular group of people, usually by assuming that all members of the group are alike.

Front 12

What kind of method do you want to use on speech organization?

Back 12

Clear and specific.

Front 13

What should consist of your speech? And how many main points should you have?

Back 13

Your speech should have a specific purpose, central idea and three main points. Having too many will have the audience have trouble sorting them out.

Front 14

What are the three most effective thing in order for your speech?

Back 14

Your topic, purpose, and audience.

Front 15

What are the five different types of order in speeches?

Back 15

1. Chronological

2. Spatial (following a directional pattern, main points proceeding from top to bottom)

3. Causal Order (organizing main points to show a cause-effect relationship)

4. Problem-Solution Order

5. Topical Order (dividing the speech into subtopics, becoming main points)

Front 16

How should your main points be structured?

Back 16

Keep main points separate

Use the same pattern of wording for main points (to make them stand out)

Balance the amount of time devoted to main points

Front 17

What are connectives?

Back 17

Words or phrases that join one thought to another and indicate the relationship between them.

Front 18

What are the two types of speech connectives?

Back 18

1. Transitions (words or phrases that indicate when a speaker has just completed one thought and moving to the next, leaving what is coming up)

2. Signposts (brief statements that indicate exactly where you are in the speech, numerical signposts, first cause of the problem, second cause, and introducing your first and main thought with a question.

Front 19

What is strategic organization?

Back 19

Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve result with a particular audience.

Front 20

What are main points?

Back 20

The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.

Front 21

What are supporting materials?

Back 21

The Materials used to support a speaker's ideas. The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony.

Front 22

What are the four objectives of a speech?

Back 22

1. Get the attention and interest of your audience.

2. Reveal the topic of your speech

3. Establish your credibility and goodwill

4. Preview the body of the speech.

Front 23

How can your gain attention and interest to the audience?

Back 23

By relating to the topic to the audience, startling, questioning, quotations, and telling a story.

Front 24

What are the two ways of concluding a point?

Back 24

1. Creating previews statements by proving a smooth lead in to the body of the speech.

2. Signal that the body of the speech is about to begin.

Front 25

How much percent of the speech should be of your introduction?

Back 25

10-20 percent.

Front 26

What are three tips to giving your introduction?

Back 26

1. Get the audience interested.

2. Deliver smoothly with detail.

3. Get the audience focused before beginning.

Front 27

What are the two major functions to conclusions?

Back 27

1. Letting the audience know you are ending your speech.

2. To reinforce the audience's understanding of, or commitment, to the central idea.

Front 28

What are ways you can conclude your speech?

Back 28

Signaling, reinforcing the central idea, summarizing, ending with quotation, making a dramatic statement, and referring to the introduction.

Front 29

How much percent of your speech should be of your conclusion?

Back 29

5-10%

Front 30

What is credibility?

Back 30

The audience's perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.

Front 31

What are the 4 types of delivery?

Back 31

1. Manuscript

2. Memory

3. Impromptu (little to no prep)

4. Extemporaneously (prepared and practiced, using only a brief set of notes or a speaking outline with conversational quality)

Front 32

What are the six different qualities of a speaker's voice?

Back 32

1. Volume

2. Pitch

3. Rate

4. Pauses

5. Vocal Variety

6. Dialect

Front 33

What are five different qualities of the speakers body?

Back 33

1. Physical Appearance

2. Movement

3. Gestures

4. Eye contact

Front 34

What are inflections?

Back 34

Changes in the pitch or tone of a speakers voice

Front 35

What is a vocalized pause?

Back 35

A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between the words with vocalizations such as er, uh

Front 36

What is vocal variety?

Back 36

Changes in a speakers rate, volume, pitch.. to give variety.

Front 37

What is articulation?

Back 37

The physical production of particular speech sounds.

Front 38

What are there three questions for informative speeches?

Back 38

1. Is the information communicated accurately?

2. Is the information communicated clearly?

3. Is the information meaningful and interesting to the audience?

Front 39

What are the three things you can create an informative speech on?

Back 39

1. Objects

2. Processes

3. Events

Front 40

What is an object?

Back 40

Anything that is visible, tangible, and stable in form.

Front 41

What is a comparison?

Back 41

A statement of similarities among two or more people, events/ideas.

Front 42

What is a contrast?

Back 42

A statement of the differences among two or more people, events or ideas.