Chapter 12: Public speaking preparation and delivery (Step 7-10)

Question 1

Abstraction

Answer 1

The process of communicating using concepts that can differ from reality

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession

Question 3

Articulation

Answer 3

The act of expressing something in a coherent verbal form

Question 4

Criticism

Answer 4

The act of expressing disapproval and of noting the problems or faults of a person or thing

Question 5

Delivery outline

Answer 5

Meant to give you all you will need to present your speech in the way you have planned and rehearsed

Question 6

Extemporaneous speech

Answer 6

A type of public speaking that involves delivering a prepared but not memorized speech on a given topic

Question 7

Figure of speech

Answer 7

A creative use of language to generate an effect

Question 8

Hyperpole

Answer 8

A kind of figurative language where the speaker says something while meaning

Question 9

Idiom

Answer 9

A phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn’t be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words

Question 10

Impromptu speech

Answer 10

Given with little or no preparation, yet almost always with some advance knowledge on the topic

Question 11

Internal summary

Answer 11

It is delivered to remind an audience of what they just heard within the speech

Question 12

Manuscript speech

Answer 12

A written text read to an audience from a paper script or teleprompter

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 14

Oral style

Answer 14

The manner in which one conveys messages through the spoken words

Question 15

Paralanguage

Answer 15

The vocal but nonverbal elements of communication by speech

Question 16

Pauses

Answer 16

To stop doing something for a short time

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

The person or thing embodying a quality or the like

Question 18

Pronunciation

Answer 18

The way in which a word is pronounced

Question 19

Rate

Answer 19

Usually varies depending on the speaker’s emotions at the time of speaking or the type of message one is communicating

Question 20

Rhetorical question

Answer 20

An inquiry that ends in a question mark but is asked for effect rather than to elicit an answer

Question 21

Simile

Answer 21

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words “like” or “as”

Question 22

Template outline

Answer 22

A process whereby humans collectively create and regulate social reality

Question 23

Transitions

Answer 23

Words, phrases, or visual devices that help the audience follow the speaker’s ideas, connect the main points to each other

Question 24

Volume

Answer 24

How loud a speaker’s voice is during a presentation