Chapters 9,10,11

Question 1

What are two ways you should not start speech?

Answer 1

I’m sorry I’m not prepared, OK um

Question 2

What are the five things a good introduction is supposed to do?

Answer 2

Get the audiences attention, give the audience a reason to listen, introduce the subject, establish your credibility, preview your main ideas

Question 3

Why should you strive for favorable attention in your introduction?

Answer 3

Because if your audience likes you then they will be more likely to listen to you. If they don’t like you and they won’t listen to you.

Question 4

What are two ways to establish your credibility?

Answer 4

Eye contact, and being prepared

Question 5

Why are illustrations/anecdotes so effective as an introduction?

Answer 5

Because they get you out of your head and into your gut. They make you feel. They or easier to remember.

Question 6

Why are starling facts/statistics so effective as introductions?

Answer 6

They get your attention. Example – the disease that gave you ED

Question 7

What do you need to remember about using humor and a speech? And why?

Answer 7

Don’t use it! Because “humor does not belong in a speech!”

Question 8

Why do you need to be careful with using questions/rhetorical questions in your speech?

Answer 8

To summarize, provide closure

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Question 9

What is one form of nonverbal transition?

Answer 9

A pause, a change and facial expression, and altered vocal pitch.

Question 10

Why do you need to be careful of using historical events in your introduction?

Answer 10

If it happened so long ago that people don’t understand what you’re talking about then your information is bad

Question 11

Why do you need to be careful of using recent events in your speech?

Answer 11

Because nobody’s paying attention to current events

Question 12

Why are personal references so powerful in your speech?

Answer 12

Because if it hits closer to home it seems more realistic

Question 13

Why doesn’t affect of speech need as good a conclusion as it does an introduction?

Answer 13

Because if your speech isn’t consistently good but it might as will not be good at all

Question 14

What are two things a good conclusion provides?

Answer 14

Closure and summarization

Question 15

True or false a good action step is usually needed for a speech to be effective?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Why should you eliminate words and phrases to add no meaning to your speech?

Answer 16

Because they are just fillers and people don’t want you to waste their time with fillers

Question 17

True or false NASA blamed the loss of the space shuttle Columbia on, in part, poor communication.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Why should you strive for “platform speech”

Answer 18

Because it makes you more relatable

Question 19

Why should you use specific, concrete words in your speech?

Answer 19

So the audience here’s what you mean and doesn’t miss interpret what you say

Question 20

What is Denotative

Answer 20

The literal meaning of the word

Question 21

What is connotative meaning?

Answer 21

The meaning that listeners associate with the word, based on past experience

Question 22

Whom said never used a long word worry short one will do. If it is possible to cut out a word always cut it out. Never used a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of and every day English equivalent.

Answer 22

George Orwell

Question 23

As an example of the need for being as concrete as possible what is the difference between the words notorious and famous?

Answer 23

Notorious implies that you are well known for something bad. Famous implies that you are well known for something good

Question 24

What is the rule for including gender, age, and ethnic background in a description?

Answer 24

You don’t want to imply that a problem you are creating only effects people of a certain gender, age, or ethnic background

Question 25

Metaphor

Answer 25

And implied comparison of two things or concepts that are similar in some vital way

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

A comparison between two things that uses the word like or as

Question 27

What is personification?

Answer 27

Giving something human feelings for manipulation

Question 28

Why is repetition such a useful tool for speaker

Answer 28

Because 80% of the audience isn’t listening

Question 29

What is the purpose of an introduction in your speech?

Answer 29

To introduce your audience to the topic

Question 30

Why must you demonstrate proximity

Answer 30

Because proximity has to do with how far away the problem is and if the problem doesn’t hit close to home than it seems like it’s very far away it doesn’t matter

Question 31

Why is credibility so important to speaker?

Answer 31

Credibility at school because if you audience doesn’t think your credible they won’t listen to you or believe

Question 32

What are two ways to sabotage credibility?

Answer 32

Making I contact, and using good sources

Question 33

What is the 50/50 rule?

Answer 33

How well you do is based 50% on content and 50% on your delivery