Final! Flashcards

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Things to avoid

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Avoid gender pronouns and stereotyping jobs by gender.

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What is identification?

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Formation of common bonds between the speaker and the audience

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4 parts of any story

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  1. Plot
  2. Character
  3. Setting
  4. Thyme
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Target audience

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People who your speech is aiming to affect.

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Problem/solution structure

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  1. Informative - Problem and it affects you.

2. Persuasive - Doing something about the situation.

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Monroe’s motivated sequence

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  1. Attention - Intro
  2. Need - Body
  3. Satisfaction - Body
  4. Visualization - Body
  5. Action - Conclusion
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Connotative meanings

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Meanings people associate with words.

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Denotative meanings

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Precise, literal meanings.

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How to use language?

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  1. Accurately
  2. Clearly
  3. Vividly
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Use language appropriate to

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  1. Audience
  2. Occasion
  3. Topic
  4. Speaker
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Simile

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Comparison that uses like or ASS

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Metaphor

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Comparison that does not use like or as

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Rhythm and rhyme

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Rhyming words/ using tempo and what not to make words sound pleasant.

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Parralellism

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Using similar arrangements of words like rich and poor, wise and foolish.

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Repetition

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Reusing the same words/phrases.

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Alliteration and assonance

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Using words that have similar firs/last vowels.

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Antithesis

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Putting together opposing ideas and thoughts.

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Personification

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ascribing human qualities to non human things.

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Allusion

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An indirect reference using a situation with similar premise.

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Irony

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The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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Genre

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Types of speech.

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*General doctrine of probability

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Protagorus

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*Manuscript speech

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Completely planned out; essay style.

Ex: State of the union speech by the president.

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*Extemporaneous speech

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NOT completely planned out speeches, like what we do in class. No speech presentations… (the fuq?)

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*The first systematic approach
Aristotle
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*3 basic purposes of public speaking
1. Entertaining 2. Informing 3. Pursuading
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*3 modes of persuasion
1. Ethos - 2. Pathos - 3. Logos -
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*Biggest benefit of a well planned preparation outline?
Helps discover which points have sufficient or insufficient supporting material.
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*When a speaker tries to disprove or dispute arguments?
Conversion
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*Deliberative speech
Deals with the future/action.
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*Forensic speeches
Concerned with judicial practices.
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*Most significant resource for creating en effective speaking style?
Language
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*7 patterns of reasoning
1. Principle - 2. Example - Examples bro... duh. 3. Analogy - Comparing 2 things. US being compared to China. 4. Signs - Infers the existence of one thing, because of the existence of something else. When there's fire, there's smoke. 5. Causes - Identifying one thing as the cause and another as the effect. When you replace light bulbs with florescent ones, you're not just changing a light bulb, you're changing the world. 6. Testimony - Testimony from an expert. Police chief said that burglary rates are exceptionally high. 7. Narrative - Speaker tells a story.
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*Rhetorical proof
1. Claims 2. Supporting material 3. Reasoning Ex: Established through interactions between the speaker and the listeners. The speaker and audience come up with proof together. Not always correct but offers support.
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*Oral style
Less complex than write style.
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*How can you increase the clarity of your message?
Using concrete words, maxims, and active voice.
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*Reflexivity
Tendency of speakers to refer to themselves and to the audience more than writers.
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*An example of defining informative strategy?
Informative speech focused on clarifying information.
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*What is NOT persuasion?
Increasing listeners understanding of the topic.
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*Building a strategic purpose allows?
Allows the speakers to respond to the rhetorical situation.
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*What is the biggest draw back to visual aids?
Distracts the audience from the message.
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*Who developed the concept of dramatism in humans as symbol users?
Burke!
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*What is the purpose of a deliberative speech?
What should we do?
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*Ethnocentrism
The tendency to believe your own culture's views as being superior than everyone else's.
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*What are characteristics of an effective delivery?
1. Natural | 2. Uncontrived
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*Audience demographics
Comes from the audience analysis. Consists of audiences gender, age range, and education level.
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*Most audiences are ___?
Heterogeneous (Diverse in their thoughts, beliefs, and interests).
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*Examination of audience culture is?
An analysis of the audience's beliefs, values, and interests.
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*Ciceros
Created the 5 cannons.
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*5 cannons
1. Invention 2. Organization 3. Language 4. Memory 5. Delivery
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*What creates opportunities and constraints?
Audience and occasion.
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*Example of target audience selection
Taget neutral.
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*4 Basic modes of presentation
1. Manuscript - Prepared word for word. Commencement address by the president. 2. Impromptu - Little or no preparation. Someone in a meeting says something that makes you want to speak up so you come up with a speech out of no where. 3. Memory - Fuckin' duh. 4. Extemporaneous - Prepared but not memorized word for word. Like what we do in class.
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5 part scheme called pentad
1. The act - What took place. 2. The scene - Where it took place. 3. The agent - Person speaking. 4. The agency - The means employed by the agent. 5. The purpose - Why the act was performed.
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Maslow's hierarchy of motivation
1. Biological needs - Air, food, water. 2. Safety needs - Security of body, employment, health. 3. Identity needs - Friendship, family, sexual intimacy. 4. Relationship needs - Self esteem, confidence, and respect. 5. Self actualization needs - Morality, creativity.
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Selective perception
1. Denial - Refusing to believe something even though extensive evidence supports it. 2. Dismissal - They dispute that the truth applies SPECIFICALLY to them. Smokers; "it won't happen to me." 3. Belittling the source - Attacking the credibility of the source. 4. Compartmentalization - 2 conflicting believes. Hypocrite; believe everyone should be able to speak but getting mad that a person with conflicting ideals is allowed to speak.
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Selective influence
Audiences can be selective on how they're influenced by a message. 1. Multiple meanings polysemy - A statement can be interpreted in more than one way. 2. Boomerang effect - The opposite effect of what the speaker intends actually happens.
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2 basic structures for persuasive speeches
1. Problem-solution structure | 2. Monroe's motivated sequence
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Benefits of using visual aids
1. Interest 2. Credibility - Helps audience believe what you're talking about. 3. Comprehension - Helps audience see what you're talking about. 4. Retention 5. Argument
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4 parts of the rhetorical situation
1. Occasion (where it's given) 2. Audience (who it's given) 3. Speech (message give) 4. Speaker (who gives it)
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Audience and occasion create what?
Opportunities and constraints
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Formal methods of audience analysis
1. Market research 2. Focus groups 3. Surveys
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Informal methods of audience analysis
1. Demographics 2. Talking to other speakers on of the same subject. 3. Talking to a host, moderator, or teacher
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Agenda setting
Give speech to get people to think about a particular thing. Speech about Glaciers to get people to think about global warming.
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Creating positive or negative feeling
Not trying to get people to actually do something, just sharing a happy/sad feeling. Usually at a funeral or wedding.
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Strengthening/weakening commitment
Usually in political speeches.
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Conversion
Trying to get people to think another way about something.
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Simplicity
Main ideas should be stated in short, to-the-point ways.
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Discreteness
Main points should not overlap and should be separate.
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Parallel structure
Main points should be stated in similar fashion The United Way is effective. The United Way is efficient. The United Way is humane.
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Balance
If you have 3 main points that talk about values of the United Way and one that talks about finance, it's not balanced.
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Coherence
Main points should deal with the topic as a whole. All topics should be about the United Way.
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Completeness
If you want to convince ppl to donate to the United Way but fail to tell what is done with the money than it's not complete.