Exam 12: Organizing Your Speech

If a speaker tells a humorous story as part of the introduction,its value to the speaker's effectiveness would be judged on whether it _______.

A _______ is a brief mention of something that happened to you or a hypothetical situation with you as the subject.

Which of the following is NOT a method of organizing the main points of a speech?

_______ is a statement you make in your speech indicating how and why it relates (or could relate)to your audience.

What are the characteristics of well-worded main points? Explain why each characteristic is important.

When a speaker concludes a speech by reviewing the main points of that speech,the conclusion would be called _______.

Creating goodwill refers to _______.

A conclusion that describes the behavior or actions you want your audience members to assume after they have heard the arguments,uses a technique called _______.

Your speech outline should _______.

One of the goals of the introduction is to establish credibility.

The organizational pattern you choose will determine the order to your main points.

You will only want to start the body of the speech after you have first _______.

Because section transitions can seem repetitive,they should only be used when the audience is unfamiliar with the topic.

If each main point began with the words "Our clothes indicate," the wording would meet the test of _______.

A person who analyzes a baseball team by discussing the pitching first,the hitting second,the coaching third,and the managing fourth is using a method called _______.

Section transitions _______.

A speech on how to build a deck for a backyard would likely follow a _______.

A person who ends a speech about CPR with a dramatic description of how she saved a person's life performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is demonstrating _______.

The last item on the speech outline is _______.

Organizing main points of the speech by categories or divisions of a subject is called logical reasons order.