Ch. 10, 11, 12

Front 1

Rhetorical question

Back 1

A question designed to stimulate thought without demanding an overt response

Front 2

Direct question

Back 2

A question that asks for an overt response from listeners

Front 3

Functions of a speech introduction

Back 3

1) Get the attention of your audience

2) State your topic

3) Establish the importance of your topic

4) Establish your credibility to speak on your topic

5) Preview the key ideas of your speech

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Strategies for getting your Audience's attention

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1) Question your audience

2) Arouse curiosity

3) Stimulate imagination

4) Promise something beneficial

5) Amuse your audience

6) energize your audience

7) Acknowledge and compliment your audience.

Front 5

Preview

Back 5

A statement that orients the audience by revealing how the speaker has organized the body of a speech

Front 6

Summary

Back 6

A statement or statements reviewing the major ideas of a speech

Front 7

Functions of a Speech Conclusion

Back 7

1) Summarize your key ideas

2) Activate audience response

3) Provide closure

Front 8

Circular conclusion

Back 8

A conclusion that repeats or refers to material used in the attention-getting step of the introduction

Front 9

Coordinate ideas

Back 9

Ideas that have equal value in a speech

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Subordinate ideas

Back 10

Ideas that support more general or more important points in a speech

Front 11

Principles of Outlining One:

Back 11

Each number or letter in the outline should represent only one idea

Front 12

Principles of Outlining Two:

Back 12

Coordinate and subordinate points in the outline should be represented by a consistent system of numbers and letters

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Principles of Outlining Three:

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If any point has sub points under it, there must be at least two.

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Principles of Outlining Four:

Back 14

Each symbol in a sentence outline should introduce a complete sentence. Each symbol in a word or phrase outline should introduce a word or phrase

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Principles of Outlining Five:

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Coordinate points throughout the outline should have parallel grammatical construction

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Complete sentence outline

Back 16

An outline in which all numbers and letters introduce complete sentences

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Key word or phrase outline

Back 17

An outline in which all numbers and letters introduce words or groups of words

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Working outline

Back 18

An informal, initial outline recording a speaker's process of borrowing, focusing, and balancing a topic

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Formal outline

Back 19

A complete sentence outline written in sufficient detail that a person other that the speaker could understand it

Front 20

Speaking outline

Back 20

A brief outline for the speaker's use alone and containing source citations and delivery prompts

Front 21

Functions of langueage

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1) Communicate ideas

2) Send messages bout user

3) Strengthen social bonds

4) Serve as instrument of play

5) Check language use

Front 22

Denotation

Back 22

The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word or phrase

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Connotation

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The emotional associations that a word or phrase may evoke in individual listeners

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Principles of effective language use, use language...

Back 24

correctly, clearly, vividly, inclusively and use oral style

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Jargon

Back 25

The special language used by people in particular activity, business, or group

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Cliche

Back 26

A once-colorful figure of speech that has lost impact from overuse

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Simile

Back 27

A comparison of two things using the words as or like

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Metaphor

Back 28

An implied comparison of two things without the use of as or like

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Personification

Back 29

A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to a concept or inanimate object

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Alliteration

Back 30

The repetition of beginning sounds in words that are adjacent, or near one another

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Parallelism

Back 31

The expression of ideas using similar grammatical structures

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Repetition

Back 32

Restating words, phrases, or sentences for emphasis

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Antithesis

Back 33

The use of parallel construction to contrast ideas

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Sexist language

Back 34

Language that excludes one gender, creates special categories for one gender, or assigns roles based solely on gender

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Nonsexist language

Back 35

Language that treats both genders fairly and avoids stereotyping either one