Public Speaking Final Exam

Here’s a clear breakdown of your terms:

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✅ Persuasive Speech — A speech designed to convince or influence the beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors of an audience.

✅ Informative Speech — A speech meant to provide information, explain, or teach about a subject.

✅ Manuscript Speech — A delivery method where the speaker reads directly from a script or text.

✅ Extemporaneously Speech — A delivery style where the speaker prepares and practices but speaks from an outline or notes instead of reading directly.

✅ Analogical Reasoning — Drawing a conclusion based on a comparison between two similar cases or situations.

✅ Vocal Pitch — The highness or lowness of a speaker’s voice.

✅ Vocalized Pause — Filling a pause in delivery with a non-word or sound (like “um”, “uh”) instead of silence.

✅ Derived Credibility — The credibility a speaker earns during their delivery, based on knowledge, fairness, confidence, and delivery style.

✅ Prosody — The patterns of stress, intonation, and rhythm in a person’s delivery — how we say something, not just what we say.

✅ Jargon — Specialized or technical language used by a particular group — can confuse or exclude a general audience.

✅ Inclusive Language — Words or phrases that avoid excluding or alienating individuals or groups; instead, they promote fairness and respect.

✅ Physiognomy — The study or expression of character or emotions through facial expression and physical appearance.

✅ The Encoding Process — The process by which a sender converts thoughts or information into a message (words, signals, or gestures).

✅ Monroe’s Motivated Sequence — An organizational pattern for speeches: Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization, Action.

✅ Albert Mehrabian Theory — Suggests that communication is 7% words, 38% vocal expression, and 55% body language.

✅ Affirmative/Proposition (Debate) — Side that supports or agrees with a resolution or policy.

✅ Negative/Opposition (Debate) — Side that argues against or refutes the resolution or policy.

✅ Crescendo Ending — A dramatic, growing conclusion that leaves a strong, powerful final impact.

✅ POI (Point of Information) — An opportunity for a debater to interrupt their opponent briefly to ask a question or make a point.

✅ Fallacy — An erroneous or flawed form of reasoning; a deceptive or invalid conclusion.

✅ Rhetorical Appeals — Techniques used to persuade (ethos — credibility; pathos — emotions; logos — logic).

✅ Hook Types — Attention-grabbing techniques (quotes, stories, humor, startling facts, questions) used to start a speech.

✅ Demagogue — A leader who manipulates emotions, biases, or fears to gain power or influence.

✅ Idios — Often refers to something unique or characteristic to a person; a quirk or distinguishing feature.

✅ Connotation — The implied or emotional significance of a word, in addition to its literal or dictionary definition.

✅ Denotation — The literal or dictionary definition of a word.