Exam 11: Developing Your Speech

When using statistics in a speech, exploding them means to get as many into the speech as possible.

A website that is free of bias against either gender, against any ethnic, racial, or sexual-preference group, or people with disabilities is a type of _____ site.

A central idea should be written in a declarative sentence and reflect a single topic.

A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends is called a(n)_____ analogy.

Once you have decided on your central idea, how can you subdivide it into main ideas? List the three questions to ask.

Rey presented an informative speech on earthquakes. He described the structural causes of earthquakes, how they develop, which areas of the earth are prone to quakes, how quakes are measured, the damage they do, and what to do when one hits. The speech became dry, the audience's attention declined, and Rey's speech exceeded the time limit by three minutes. From this description, what was Rey's mistake?

Explain the three types of general purposes for presentations. How are they different?