1.0 Public Speaking Study Guide

Persuasive Speech

Focuses on convincing or influencing the audience to do something

Informative Speech

Focuses on educating the audience through logos to establish credibility

Manuscript Speech

Written text read to an audience from a script/teleprompter

Extemporaneous Speech

Well prepared, organized, and rehearsed speech

Analogical Reasoning

The ability to see similarities between situations, or domains, and relating those features between them

Vocal Pitch

The relative highness/lowness of tone

Vocalized Pause

Filler words such as ‘like’, ‘um’, ‘uh’

Derived Credibility

Produced by everything a speaker does during a speech

Prosody

Implies clues about the speaker's attitude or state based on intonation/ pattern or rhythm of speech

Jargon

Specific words used by a particular profession(often times difficult to understand by people not part of this group)

Inclusive Language

Language style that avoids provocative, controversial, or offensive language

Physiognomy

Practice of accessing a person’s character using outward appearance (facial features/expression)

The Encoding Process

Conversion of sensory input into a form that is capable of being processed and inputted into the memory system

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

5 step process of persuasion-grab the audience’s attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, & call to action

Albert Mehrabian Theory

A theory which states that communication relies on 7% words, 38% tone of voice, 55% body communication

Affirmative/Proposition (Debate)

The team that argues for the resolution

Negative/Opposition (Debate)

The team that argues against the resolution

Crescendo Ending

Musical technique that builds a powerful & dramatic conclusion to a piece

POI

Number of points presented throughout opening arguments & rebuttals

Fallacy

Errors in reasoning from invalid arguments or irrelevant points with little to no evidence

Rhetorical Appeals

Logos (facts, logic), Ethos (credibility, trustworthiness), Pathos (emotions, ideals)

Hook Types

Anecdote, Rhetorical Question, Description, Quote, Fact/Statistic, Common misconception

Demagogue

Rhetorically exploit for political purposes to appeal to desires & prejudices of ordinary people

Idios

Pertaining to oneself, belonging to oneself; private

Connotation

An idea or feeling that a word evokes other than literal meaning

Denotation

Literal meaning of a word in contrast to an idea or feeling suggested.