Ch. 15

Question 1

What is an informative speech?

Answer 1

A speech designed to convey knowledge and understanding

Question 2

What three general criteria will be used to judge your informative speech?

Answer 2

1. Is the information communicated accurately?
2. Is the information communicated clearly?
3. Is the information made meaningful and interesting to the audience?

Question 3

What are the four types of informative speeches?

Answer 3

1. Speeches about objects
2. Speeches about processes
3. Speeches about events
4. Speeches about concepts

Question 4

What is an object?

Answer 4

Anything that is visible, tangible, and stable in form

Question 5

What is a process?

Answer 5

A systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product.

Question 6

Speeches about processes explain….

Answer 6

1. How something is made
2. How something is done
3. How something works

Question 7

What are the two types of informative speeches about processes?

Answer 7

1. So that listeners will understand it better

2. So listeners will be better able to perform the process themselves

Question 8

What is an event?

Answer 8

Anything that happens or is regarded as happening

Question 9

What is a concept?

Answer 9

A belief, theory, idea, notion, principle, or the like

Question 10

What is description?

Answer 10

A statement that depicts a person, event, idea, or the like with clarity and vividness/

Question 11

What is a comparison?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What is contrast?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What does it mean to personalize?

Answer 13

To present one’s ideas in human terms that relate in some fashion to the experience of the audience