STUDY GUIDE FOR KEY TERMS FOR SPEECH 113 FINAL EXAM

Organizing the Speech

  • General Purpose
  • Specific Purpose
  • Central Idea or Thesis

Using Language

  • Denotative and connotative meaning
  • Imagery
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Mixed metaphor
  • Rhythm
  • Parallelism
  • Repetition

Supporting materials

  • Examples - brief; extended; hypothetical
  • Statistics - mean; mode; median
  • Testimony- expert; peer
  • Outlining - Main points; Sub points; Sub Sub points
  • Ordering main points - Spatial order; Causal order; Problem-Solution order; Topical order

Informative Speech terms

  • Speech about objects
  • Speech about processes
  • Speech about events
  • Speech about concepts
  • Jargon
  • Personalizing an idea

Connectives

  • Transitions
  • Internal preview
  • Internal Summary
  • Signposts

Persuasive Speech Terms

  • Target audience
  • Question of fact speech
  • Question of value speech
  • Question of policy speech
  • Monroe 's motivated sequence speech
  • Need
  • Plan
  • Practicality
  • Problem – solution order
  • Problem – cause – solution order
  • Comparative advantages order

Beginning and Ending the Speech

  • Attention Getter
  • Preview Statement
  • Creating Credibility
  • Establishing goodwill
  • Crescendo ending
  • Dissolve ending

Methods of Persuasion

  • Evidence
  • Logos
  • Reasoning
  • Reasoning from specific instances
  • Reasoning from principle
  • Causal Reasoning
  • Analogical reasoning

Faulty Reasoning

  • Hasty generalization
  • False cause
  • Invalid analogy fallacy
  • Red herring
  • Ad hominem
  • Either-or fallacy
  • Bandwagon
  • Slippery slope