Chapter 1: Introducing Public Speaking

Feedback

________ is any response that a receiver gives to a message with it being any verbal or nonverbale response that a receiver gives to a message.

Susan B Anthony

________, Martin Luther KIng Jr, and Cesar Chavez are all examples of people that used public speaking to their advantage in order to leave their mark on society.

single audience

In a public speaking situation, every ________ member is a communicator that is receiving ones message.

communicator

A(n) ________ is someone who either sends or receives a message.

educational competition

The rheoticians won the ________ between philsophers and rhetoricians, in Greek and Roman society.

unambiguous language

The concept of decoding can sensitize epople to the importance of using clear, ________ when speaking in public.

modern media culture

In ________, public speeches that inform, persuade, and entertain are broadcasted all over in the form of newscasts, infomercials, and variety shows with them being heard on the radio, watched on television, and streamed on the Internet with them representing the values and beliefs of the American nation at a particular point in time.

rhetorical triangle

The ________ is a visual reminder that public speakers must always keep the speaker, speech, and audience in mind.

Invention

________ is the process of coming up with ideas for ones speech, arrangement is the process of placing ones ideas in an appropriate order, style is the process of choosing the right words to express ideas, memory is the process of commiting words to memory, and delivery is the process of presenting oens speech to their audience.

Athens

The philosopher, Plato founded an influential school of in ________ and wrote multip philosophical dialgoues that called Gorgias art of oratary into question with Gorgias being a popular speechmakesr and teacher who rose to fame by emphasizing an ornate speaking style that generated strong emotions in his audience.

Public speaking

________, interpersonal, small group, organizational, intercultural, and mass communication are all forms of communicating with other people.

Public speeches

________ are not a dialogue, they consist of a monological, one- way verbal performance instead.

Ethics

________ are moral principles that govern peoples actions as they help people decide what is right or wrong and what is good and bad behavior.

power of public speaking

The ________ can be used to influence and transform society.

rhetorical appeals

The three ________ are ethos, logos, and pathos with ethos consisting of appealing to the audience through the projected character of the speaker, logoes consisting of a persuasive appeal directed at the understanding or reasoning capacity of the audience, and pathos being the persusasive appeal put to use by generating emotions in the audience.

rhetorical triangle

The ________ which consists of the speaker which is ethos, speech which is logos, and the audience which is pathos.