1: In an informative speech, the introduction has two purposes: (1) to get the attention of the audience; (2) to orient the audience as to the speaker's purpose and point of view.
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2: Physical stimulus, such as gracefully making your way to the podium before speaking, has little or no affect on the attention of the audience.
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3: Referring to any recent local or national even is an effective opening and should be used often, no matter the occasion or subject of the speech.
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4: Stirring the audience to curiosity is sometimes called the conundrum approach.
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5: Novelty appeals to us because it represents a change from familiar ideas and experience.
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6: Two very useful emotions that are effective in stirring the audience emotionally are fear and sadness.
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7: A sincere compliment is always appreciated; a forced, manufactured one only embarrasses a group and hurts the speaker's reputation.
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8: The humorous story must be in point and not dragged in. The humorous story should only be used as a supporting example of a main head or of a sub-head.
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9: Three methods of orienting the audience are: -State the subject sentence of the speech; then restate it at least once. -State how you intend to develop and treat your subject. -Supply background information that would help your hearers see your subject in its perspective.
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10: The conclusion of an informative speech has at least one main purpose: to summarize and draw together the chief ideas of the speech.
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11: Summaries should always be formal in nature and repeat the ideas of the same speech using the exact same phraseology.
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12: As you are putting the final touches on your speech outline, give some thought to the following matters of detail: (1) the proportion and space assigned to each division of the speech; (2) transitions; (3) repetition and restatement; and (4) concreteness of language.
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13: Transitional materials help to give a speech unity and coherence; they point up and give emphasis to parts in relation to the whole. They aid both speaker and hearer, because they control attention by appealing to our preference for orderly, systematic stimuli.
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14: In keeping subheads distinct, it is important to adopt a consistent set of conjunctive adverbs (moreover, also, furthermore, finally, etc), and get into the habit of using them to start off the discussion of a subhead.
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15: A speaker can always assume that his audience is eager to listen attentively and to keep on listening.
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16: Interest must be "grown" and established. The speaker must cultivate and develop in his hearers an interest in the subject of the speech.
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17: The good formula for finding good questions is this: Frame the question that a hearer would ask if he were to interrupt you, and place it at that point in your speech where he might logically ask it.
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18: Humor is interesting, but it should be so used as to transfer the interest to the ideas or materials which the speaker wishes the audience to attend to and to remember.
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19: The novel and the familiar may be combined in two directions. A speaker may first state what he thinks is new to his audience and then immediately relate it to something familiar, or he may state the old idea and then show its new application.
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20: The types of evidence a speaker may use are visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, motor, and kinesthetic.
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21: The speaker who wants to secure sharp images will achieve them by being vague and avoiding details.
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22: Outlining is not effective means of organizing ideas for a speech.
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23: Reading from a manuscript is by far the most used method of speechmaking. It is unimportant for a speaker to learn about impromptu speaking.
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24: It important to cover the manuscript of your speech with any necessary addition, edits, transposed word order, and to cross out material that you will not use.
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25: When reading from a manuscript, the speaker鈥檚 head should be kept erect and the eyes should drop down, not the head, to read from the paper.
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26: Reading tends to make delivery indirect; both speaker and audience are usually robbed of any feeling of direct communication, principally because the speaker glues his eyes to his manuscript. A speaker must practice keeping his eyes on his audience.
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27: When reading from a manuscript, a speaker should look at his hearers for only 20 per cent of the time.
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28: Notes are important tool for impromptu speaking. Notes provide a ready means of suggesting what might be sa So...you want us to take your test for you? It sounds like you need to open your book and read a page or two to find those pesky answers.
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