Chapter 13 Speech Review

________ are especially useful when you are explaining a process in your speech.

You can generally assume that adult audiences have cultural literacy.

If your homeroom teacher needs to explain changes in the student handbook, she would give you a........

We pay more attention to visual than to audio suggestions.

You only need to appeal to an audience’s sense of hearing.

If you spend too much time and effort striving for clarity in a speech, you may lose an audience’s interest.

Maps are the best way to show geographical relationships.

An exciting video can disguise a poorly prepared speech.

Using a lot of anecdotes in your speech keeps the audience well informed.

If you need to report on the progress of a fund-raising project to the Student Council, you would give a.......

A ________ scaled to a smaller size would allow you to demonstrate features of something large.

Choosing what to keep in a speech is critical when you are limited in time.

If you are invited to give an account of your trip to a convention to the Kiwanis Club, you would probably give a.......

An audience is more likely to pay attention if a speech has a pattern.

To find good speech ideas, you must sometimes break the rules and look for ideas in unusual places.

A _______ is a model sliced in two.

If your principal wants to have informal talks with groups of parents, she might schedule........

To bring your subject down to manageable size, limit your subject in ___, ___, ___, and by using the principle of ___.

Diagrams are useful if you want to explain a process.

A diagram is the best way to show statistical relationships.

“There are three reasons why we need to act” is an example of an........

Your soccer coach might explain a play by using a........

Speaking from personal experience is usually not a good idea.

Since you can’t cover every aspect of a subject in a ten-minute speech, you need to ____________ your subject

Multimedia presentations are good because they are reliable.

________ include fliers, brochures, or information sheets that you prepare and distribute to the audience.

It is easier to compile facts than to correct them.

The ________ states the most important message of your speech.

It is seldom important to impart information to others.

Once source of quotations for speeches is......