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habituation   the process of becoming more comfortable as you speak  
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specific purpose   a concise statement of what listeners should be able to do by the time the speaker finishes their speech  
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central idea   definitive point about a topic  
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main ideas   subdivisions of the central idea of a speech that provide detailed points of focus for delivering the speech  
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lay testimony   the opinion of someone who experienced an event or situation firsthand  
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figurative analogy   a comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends  
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topical organization   organization determined by the speaker's discretion or by recency, primacy, or complexity.  
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primacy   arrangement of ideas from most important to least important or from strongest to weakest  
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recency   arrangement of ideas from least important to most important or from weakest to strongest  
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spatial organization   organization according to location, position, or direction  
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cause and effect organization   organization by discussing a situation and its effects, or a situation and its causes  
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specificty   organization from specific information to a more general statement or from a general statement to specific information  
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signpost   a verbal or nonverbal organization signal  
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concrete word   a word that refers to an object or describes an action or characteristic in the most specific way possible  
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specific word   a word that refers to an individual member of a general class  
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correct word   a word that means what the speaker intends and is grammatically correct in the phrase or sentence in which it appears  
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drama   a characteristic of a speech created when something is phrased in a way that differs from the way the audience responds  
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omission   leaving out a word or phrase the audience expects to hear  
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inversion   reversing the normal word order of a phrase or sentence  
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candence   the rhythm of language  
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parallelism   using the same grammatical structure for two or more clauses or sentences  
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antithesis   contrasting the meanings of the two parts of a parallel structure  
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alliteration   the repetition of a constant sound several times in a phrase, clause, or sentence  
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inflection   variation in vocal pitch  
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dialect   a consistent style of pronunciation and articulation that is common to an ethnic and geographic region  
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cognitive dissonance   the sense of mental disorganization or imbalance that may prompt a person to change when new information conflicts with previously organized thought patterns  
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hierarchy of needs   Abraham Maslow's classic theory that humans have five levels of needs and that lower-level needs must be met before people can be concerned about higher-level needs  
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elaboration likelihood model (ELM)   a contemporary theory that people can be persuaded both directly and indirectly  
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proposition of fact   a claim that something is or is not the case or that something did or did not happen  
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proposition of value   a claim that calls for the listener to judge the worth or importance of something  
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proposition of policy   a claim advocating a specific action to change a regulation, procedure, or behavior  
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rhetoric   the process of discovering the available means of persuasion  
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dynamism   an aspect of a speaker's credibility that reflects whether the speaker is perceived as energetic  
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terminal credibility   the final impression listeners have of a speaker's credibility after the speech has been concluded  
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derived credibility   the impression of a speaker's credibility based on what the speaker says and does during the speech  
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inductive reasoning   using specific instances or examples to reach a probable general conclusion  
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reasoning by analogy   a special kind of inductive reasoning that draws a comparison between two ideas, things, or situations that share some essential common feature  
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deductive reasoning   moving from a general statement or principle to reach a certain specific conclusion  
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syllogism   a three-part argument, including a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion  
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refutation   organization according to objections your listeners may have to your ideas and arguments  
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motivated sequence   Alan H. Monroe's five-step plan for organizing a persuasive message: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action  
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logical divisions   genres: types of music, types of instruments  
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extended analogy   is a type of composition where one idea, process, or thing is explained by comparing it to something else over a longer narrative  
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literal analogy   a comparison between two similar things  
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figurative analogy   a comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends  
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operational definition   is a clear, concise detailed definition of a measure  
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complexity   arranging ideas from simple to more complex  
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ad hominem   a group of argumentation strategies that focus on the person making an argument rather than their viewpoint  
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