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Communications Ch 12
Organizing & outlining Public Presentations
Question | Answer |
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Compares or contrasts one unfamiliar concept or object with something that the audience already knows or understands: | Analogy |
An explicit attempt by the speaker to gain the audience's interest: | Attention Step |
Focuses the audience's thoughts on the topic and purpose of the speech: | Appropriate Audience Attention |
Divides the speech into the causes of some phenomenon and the effects that result from it: | Cause and effect speech structure |
Organizes a speech around segments or sequences of time: | Chronological Speech Structure |
Organizes information around distinct points of similarity or difference: | Comparison Speech Structure |
Uses full sentences, including standard punctuation such as periods, commas, and question marks, to delineate the speaking information: | Complete Sentence Outline |
The audience's perception of the speaker's expertise, character, and goodwill: | Credibility |
Establishes the meaning of words or concepts: | Definition |
Illustrations or stories that explicate a particular point: | Examples |
Clarifies some concept or idea by further identifying its source, explaining how it works, or relating it to other concepts: | Explanation |
Uses only a few important words from each sentence of a complete sentence outline to delineate the speaking information: | Key word outline |
The most important ideas to be communicated to the audience and those that lead directly to the specific purpose of the speech: | Main points |
Organizes a speech around one or more stories: | Narrative speech structure |
A concise synopsis that displays the structure and relationship of speech ideas and concepts: | Outline |
Organizes information in a speech around one or more problems and one or more solutions to those problems: | Problem/Solution Speech Structure |
Organizes a speech around familiar relationships in the environment, such as near and far, up and down, right and left, or east and west: | Spatial Speech Structure |
Numerical representations used to quantify ideas or concepts: | Statistics |
Ideas that amplify or develop the main points: | Subpoints |
Stated opinion in support of an idea: | Testimony |
Uses brief phrases to summarize the major points of a presentation: | Topic Outline |
Organizes a speech around types or categories: | Topical Speech Structure |
Verbal bridges that move the speech from one point or idea to the next: | Transitions |