Com quicks

Audience Centered

Focusing on the needs and interests of the audience when preparing and delivering a speech.

Aristotle’s Rhetoric

A work that emphasizes the use of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade an audience.

Storytelling

Using narratives to explain, engage, and help the audience understand concepts.

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

A persuasive organizational pattern consisting of Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization, and Action.

Presentation Media

Tools like PowerPoint, flip charts, and videos used to enhance and complement speech content.

Impromptu

A delivery method where the speech is delivered without prior preparation.

Listening

Involves components like hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, and responding to spoken messages.

Persuasion

The act of influencing or convincing an audience to adopt a certain belief, attitude, opinion, value, or behavior.

Fallacies

Errors in reasoning or argumentation that can weaken the credibility and effectiveness of a speech.

Credibility

The perception of the speaker's trustworthiness, competence, dynamism, and sociability by the audience.