Exam 14: Language and Delivery

Tierra is planning a presentation on the stock market. She wants to show her audience trends in the market since the beginning of the decade. What type of presentation aid would most likely meet Tierra's needs?

Which of the following presentation situations is best suited for impromptu speaking?

Effective presenters maintain eye contact with audience members 100 percent of their speaking time.

Which of the following statements is an advantage of manuscript delivery?

Diagrams show "how things work."

The presentation aid design principle "Exercise Restraint" urges presenters to avoid too many graphics, fonts, colors, and other visual elements and effects.

What does the recommendation "touch, turn, talk" mean as a strategy for using presentations aids?

When standing in front of an audience, which of the following positions or postures should you avoid?

When speaking from a lectern, you should remain behind it throughout the presentation.

The CORE speaking styles build upon one another with the clear style coming first and concluding with the rhetorical style that builds upon the first three styles.

All of the following strategies and techniques can help improve the effectiveness of your gestures in a presentation except

Although manuscript delivery allows a presenter to choose concise and eloquent language and to feel more relaxed by speaking from a script, it also reduces the amount of eye contact with audience members and is difficult to modify or adapt to audience feedback.

If you use manuscript delivery, staple the pages of the manuscript together so you don't read the pages in the wrong order.

Which language strategy is used in the following example? "An iron curtain has descended across the Continent." (Winston Churchill, 1946)

Dan is preparing a presentation to his company's five vice presidents in which he will show how much of his total budget is devoted to different functions in his department. What type of presentation aids would best meet Dan's needs?

Reducing or eliminating the inflection of your voice can help you find your optimum pitch.

Extemporaneous speaking is the most common form of presentation delivery.

Eye contact accrues all of the following benefits except

The CORE speaking styles are

The article a (as in "a beautiful day") should be pronounced "uh," rather than rhyming with hay.