🎤 SPEECH CLASS FLASHCARDS
Delivery Techniques: Methods used to enhance speech presentation, including vocal variety, body language, and eye contact.
🟡 SOURCES & WORKS CITED
Q: What is a source?
A: A place where you get reliable information (website, book, person).
Q: How many sources must you verbally cite?
A: At least 2 sources.
Q: What phrase is commonly used before citing a source?
A: “According to…”
Q: If you cite a source in your speech but not on Works Cited, what is it?
A: Plagiarism ⚠
Q: What format is required for Works Cited?
A: MLA format
Q: Name 3 MLA rules
A: No bold, no underline, double spaced, 12pt Times New Roman, alphabetized
Q: How should dates be written in MLA?
A: Day Month Year (6 Sept. 2025)
🔵 SUPPORTING IDEAS
Q: What are supporting materials?
A: Materials that make ideas clear or persuasive
Q: What does verbatim mean?
A: Word-for-word quoting
Q: What is paraphrasing?
A: Restating in your own words without changing meaning
Q: Changing the meaning while paraphrasing is called?
A: Plagiarism ⚠
Q: When should you use verbatim?
A: When it’s powerful OR controversial
Q: What is an example?
A: A real situation used to support a point
Q: What is a hypothetical example?
A: A made-up scenario to illustrate a point
🟣 AUDIENCE ANALYSIS
Q: What is audience analysis?
A: Collecting info about audience characteristics, values, and attitudes
Q: When do you do audience analysis?
A: BEFORE writing your speech
Q: What are demographics?
A: Basic facts (age, gender, education)
Q: What are psychographics?
A: Beliefs, values, opinions
Q: Give 1 psychographic question
A: “Do they agree with my topic?”
Q: What is a contiguous audience?
A: In-person audience
Q: What is a media audience?
A: Audience through TV/internet
Q: What is common ground?
A: Shared connection between speaker and audience
🔴 LISTENING
Q: What is hearing?
A: Passive process of sound entering ears
Q: What is listening?
A: Active process of understanding and responding
Q: What does “other-oriented” mean?
A: Focusing on others, not yourself
Q: Give 2 examples of responding
A: Eye contact, nodding, posture, asking questions
Q: What is an external barrier?
A: Noise, overload, complexity
Q: What is an internal barrier?
A: Preoccupation, prejudgment, lack of effort
Q: What is pseudo listening?
A: Pretending to listen
Q: What is monopolizing?
A: Making conversation about yourself
Q: Name 1 monopolizing behavior
A: Interrupting or rerouting conversation
PART 1 — MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A source is:
A. An opinion
B. A place where we get reliable information
C. A speech
D. A personal story
2. Which of the following counts as a source?
A. Website
B. Book
C. Journal article
D. All of the above
3. How many sources must you verbally cite?
A. 1
B. 2 from the same place
C. 2 from different sources
D. 3
4. Which phrase is commonly used when citing a source?
A. “I think…”
B. “According to…”
C. “Everyone knows…”
D. “It is said…”
5. If you cite a source in your speech but NOT on your Works Cited page, it is considered:
A. Fine
B. Optional
C. Plagiarism
D. Extra credit
6. Which is TRUE about Works Cited formatting?
A. You can bold titles
B. You can underline URLs
C. Everything must be double spaced
D. Fonts can vary
7. What font is standard?
A. Arial
B. Times New Roman, 12 pt
C. Calibri
D. Any font
8. European date format is:
A. Month-Day-Year
B. Year-Day-Month
C. Day-Month-Year
D. Month-Year-Day
9. Which month is NOT abbreviated?
A. Jan.
B. Feb.
C. May
D. Sept.
10. Supporting materials are used to:
A. Make speeches longer
B. Support and clarify ideas
C. Replace main points
D. Entertain only
🟨 PART 2 — TRUE / FALSE
11. You should bold items on your Works Cited page.
TRUE / FALSE
12. All sources must also appear in your outline.
TRUE / FALSE
13. Paraphrasing means changing the meaning.
TRUE / FALSE
14. Verbatim means word-for-word.
TRUE / FALSE
15. Hypothetical examples are real events.
TRUE / FALSE
16. Informative speeches try to influence people.
TRUE / FALSE
17. You must include “my audience” in your purpose statement.
TRUE / FALSE
🟦 PART 3 — SHORT ANSWER
18. What is paraphrasing?
19. When is it better to use verbatim?
20. Define a hypothetical example.
21. List 3 demographic characteristics.
22. List 3 psychographic characteristics.
23. What is a contiguous audience?
24. What is a media audience?
25. What is common ground approach?
26. What is noise in communication? Give one example.
27. What is feedback?
🟥 PART 4 — APPLICATION (VERY IMPORTANT)
28. Fix this purpose statement:
“I want to talk about mental health.”
29. Identify the type of example:
“Imagine a child finds a loaded gun…”
A. Real example
B. Hypothetical example
30. What is wrong with this Works Cited?
Bold title
Single spaced
Underlined links
31. Give ONE example of internal noise.
32. Give ONE example of external noise.
33. What is pseudolistening?
34. What is monopolizing?