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Public Speaking Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fluency/Continuity: | moving with ease; polished. |
| Volume: | the degree of loudness of sound. |
| Eye Contact: | making a visual connection with individuals in audience. |
| Pacing: | the degree of quickness with which one delivers a speech. |
| Movement: | changing physical position. |
| Gesticulation: | act of making gestures or moving one’s body parts, usually arms, hands, legs, as a means of expres- sion. |
| Facial Expression: | communicating ideas and emotions nonverbally by contorting one’s face. |
| Enunciation: | clearly saying the sounds and syllables in words. |
| Pronunciation: | speaking words as they are meant to be spoken. |
| Audience: | the people who are listening and/or viewing a presentation or speaker. |
| Tone: | the expression in one’s voice generated by altering pitch (highness and lowness). |
| Diction: | word choice. |
| Impromptu/Extemporaneous: | speaking or presenting with little or no preparation. |
| Visual Aids: | any visible props or components of one’s presentation. |
| What percentage of communication is non-verbal? | 95% |
| Your fluency/continuity means that you should be.... | polished and not using filler words such as like, so, um |
| When choosing your volume, you need to know..... | your audience, size of audience, size of room, do you have a microphone or not; you speak so person in the back can hear |
| You need to keep eye contact because | it keeps your audience engaged, look over the head if you can't look someone in the eyes |
| When pacing your speech make sure you...... | go slow enough for everyone to follow, take pauses, think of it having a beat or rhythm to it |
| Your movement should be...... | Controlled and help keep engagement. It should not be distracting or look nervous |
| Your gesticulation should.... | match your words and create visual cues for your speech to carry message |
| Your facial expression can.... | match the feelings you are having about the topic and can be used for sarcasm as well |
| You must make sure you do what for enunciation? | You must finish the sounds on words or syllables so audience can understand you |
| Your diction should... | use the vocabulary needed to talk about your topic but also be at a level your audience understands |
| Examples of visual aids are..... | google slides, videos, artifacts, pictures |
| An impromptu speech is something..... | unexpected (questions at a job interview) |