Public Speaking Final Exam Study Guide Have a clear understanding of each of the terms listed below |
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Persuasive Speech | Focuses on convincing or influencing the audience to do something |
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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 speakers attitude or state based on intonation |
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(what the problem is & why), satisfaction(present a solution) visualization(how life will improve after solution is applied), & call to action (urgae audience to fix the problem) |
Albert Mehrabian Theory | A theory which states that when a person communicated, how their message will be received is reliant on 7% of the words articulated, 38% of the tone of voice, 55% of their body commuication |
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 | # of points presented throughout opening arguments & rebuttals |
Fallacy | Errors in reasoning from invalid arguments or irrelevant points that have little to no evidence to support |
Rhetorical Appeals | Logos- using facts, logic, rational judgement) Ethos- Credibility & trustworthiness - expertise, experience, stature) Pathos- emotions & ideals, connotations, anecdotes, tone |
Hook Types |
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Demagogue | Political leaders who appeal to the desires & prejudice of a the citizens rather than rational judgement (oftentimes dictators) |
Idios | Pertaining to oneself, belonging to one self ; private |
Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word evokes (neutral) other than literal meaning |
Denotation | Literal meaning of a word in contrast to an idea or feeling that the word suggests |