1.0 Public Speaking Study Guide

Public Speaking Final Exam Study Guide

Have a clear understanding of each of the terms listed below

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 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

  • Anecdote

  • Rhetorical Question

  • Description

  • Quote

  • Fact/Statistic

  • Common misconception

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